The goal of this research program is to determine the flux of CO2 and O2 between Lake Michigan and the atmosphere. Lake Michigan is an ideal system in which to conduct this study for several reasons: 1) Its nutrient budgets and general physical limnology are relatively well known; 2) An instrumented buoy array is currently being developed and deployed in the lake, which will provide a large amount of supporting data on currents, thermal structure, and plankton dynamics; 3) There are commercial vessels currently operating on the lake that can be used to acquire data with a high degree of spatio-temporal resolution. The primary research objectives are: 1) To develop a method that allows for collection of lake surface and atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and O2 with high spatio-temporal resolution; 2) To implement this method on Lake Michigan in order to quantify lake-atmosphere gas exchange on a daily basis, with the goal of determining the net annual lake-atmosphere exchange and understanding how short-term fluctuations in this exchange are driven by physical conditions (water temperature, lake stratification, upwelling, irradiance) and biogeochemical conditions (nutrient concentrations, phytoplankton abundance).
- Passage Options for Walleye and Lake Sturgeon at the Dam Site on the Black Sturgeon River (Lake Superior)
- Investigating the Sources of Microbial Pollution of a PermanentlyClosed Beach
- Water Quality and Biological Response to Water Quality of Embayments to Lake Ontario -- (Student Research Project)
- Causes, Consequences, and Management of Nuisance Cladophora
- Water Quality Monitoring in Western Lake Erie and Maumee Bay
- Diagnosis of VHS in Round Gobies from Lake Ontario
- Sources and Transport Mechanisms for Escherichia coli Contaminationat Lake Michigan Beaches
- Development and application of molecular-based methods for identifying sources of fecal pollution at Lake Michigan beaches
- Near-Shore Transport: Modeling, Observations, and Beach Closure Forecasting
- Development of a watershed-to-very-near-shore model for microbial pathogen fate and transport
General
Aquatic Nuisance Species
Annex
General
- Scope of Study
Scope of StudyField InvestigationLaboratory Investigation
- Scale of Phenomena
Scale of PhenomenaBiochemicalCommunityEcosystemPhysical/Chemical
- Impact of Pollutants
Impact of PollutantsNutrients, Including Phosphorus
- Processes
ProcessesNatural Ecological Processes
- Land Use and Habitat
Land Use and HabitatShoreline
- Resource Management
- Socio-Economic
- State / Province
State ProvinceMichiganWisconsin
- Lake Basin / Connecting Channels
Lake Basin Connecting ChannelsLake Michigan
Monitoring
Aquatic Nuisance Species
- Biology And Life History
Biology And Life HistoryPhysiology and Behavior
- Control And Mitigation
- Ecosystem Effects
Ecosystem EffectsFood Web Structure
- Prevention and Introduction
- Socio-economic Consideration and Analysis
- Spread of Established ANS Populations
Annex
- Annex Numbers
Annex NumbersResearch & Development
- Annex 17
Annex 17Physical and transformational processes affecting delivery of pollutants