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Great Lakes Water Protection [S-11-24]

Great Lakes Water Protection - Lecture 1 (copyright Michael Twiss) - 33mb (will be slow to download)

The Laurentian Great Lakes contain 20% of the world’s surface fresh water and serve both as a water supply and as waste disposal services for over 33 million residents in the United States and Canada. The two countries share the management of this resource; they also share the burden of emerging issues. In this course the LGL/SLR system will be examined from a multidisciplinary, multinational perspective to illustrate that a shared resource can be successfully maintained. Participants will learn about the forces (geomorphic, biological, chemical, social, economic, and political) that continue to shape and impact this globally significant resource.

Associate Professor of Biology Michael Twiss is the Director of the Great Rivers Center at Clarkson University. He has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His area of expertise is the Laurentian Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River ecosystem. He has published numerous manuscripts, and his work has received an award from the International Association for Great Lakes Research. He is actively involved with the Remedial Advisory Committee of the St. Lawrence River at Massena Area of Concern.

LINK:

• http://www.clarkson.edu/ise/great_rivers.html. Learn more about the Great Rivers Center and the research and outreach programs gong on there by visiting their web site.l