This innovative website introduces students (grades 4-10) to marine and freshwater invasive species and their impacts through detective-themed activities and colorful cartoon characters.

For more detailed information, visit Nab the Aquatic Invader!

If you fish in the Great Lakes region and eat your catch, this pamphlet will help you reduce your risk of consuming contaminated fish and introduce you to some of the facts of PCBs. Note: file includes English, Spanish, Polish, and Chinese translations.

Feature Headlines

• Profiling Culprits in the Great Lakes
• Interim Director Steer IISG into the Future
• Experts Gather To Explore River Restoration
• Students Set Sights on Community Awareness
• Research Takes the Stage
• DNA Fingerprinting Can ID E. coli Contamination
• Funding Boosts Ideas into Action

Feature Headlines

• Predicting Urban Sprawl in Top 20 U.S. Coastal Cities
• Research in Review: New Tools for Water Quality Testing
• All Hands (and Eyes) on Deck!
• Roosevelt Students On Board the W.G. Jackson
• Exotic Species Day Camp Wins Award
• Geography Teachers on the Move at Exotics Workshop

This four-page fact-sheet is a primer on how pharmaceuticals and personal care products enter the environment and what consumers can do to properly dispose of them. This fact sheet was developed by New York Sea Grant.

Feature Headlines

• Water-Wealthy/Water Poor
• Charlebois Indentifies New Invader
• IISG Goes to Brazil: An Interview with LaDon Swann
• NiSource and IISG Team Up to Fund Environmental Projects
• The Forecast for E. coli is….