News and Events

Zebra mussels starving out Great Lakes native fishes (provided by Environmental News Network on June 20, 2001)

ALEWIFE Watch 2001 (provided by Wisconsin Sea Grant on June, 2001)

The shores of Lake Michigan are once again littered with dead Alewife, a small fish native to the Atlantic Coast that entered the Great Lakes through the Welland Canal in the mid 1900s. Sensitive to disturbances in their Great Lakes environment, Alewife die-offs are common when the fish move from deeper water to nearshore areas and are exposed to fluctuating water temperatures.

EPA Threatened with Lawsuit for Ballast Dumping (provided by Great Lakes Information Network on Jan. 26, 2001)

Ballast Water Brochure (provided by UNITED STATES COAST GUARD)
(brochure is available in 12 languages)

Ellinas (Greek)	Ellinas (Greek - 2)	Italiano (Italian)	Francis (French)	Hollands (Dutch)	Norsk (Norwegian)
Russian	Russian - 2	Deutsch (German)	Chinese	Polska (Polish)	Thai
Spanish 1-a	Spanish 1-b	Spanish - 2	Spanish - 3	Spanish - 4	English

All files are in PDF format that require the freely available Acrobat Reader.

Website: Mind-It

(http://mindit.netmind.com/minder_wizard.shtml)
This site will allow you to track changes in our Exotic Aquatics on the Move web-site of Interest to You.

Media Advisory : Exotic Species Presentation (Feb. 18, 2000)
MarK Sagoff, University of Maryland: "What’s Wrong with Exotic Species?"
Mark Sagoff asks very provocative questions about whether or not "exotics" are really any different from "natives" -- and if they are, now exactly do we make that determination? He points to many examples of plants and animals we have been intentionally introduced to the U.S. -- like blue grass in the "Blue Grass State".

Sea Grant Non-Indigenous Species (sgnis)

Link

Zebra Mussel Information System CD
Available from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS 39180, Ph: 601/634-2972.

NMEA 2000 Conference Presentation at Long Beach, CA (July 16-21, 2000)
(Dr. Rosanne Fortner & Hyonyong Lee)
Introduction (Power Point)

Link;
Geography Standards Guidelines (Power Point)

Link;
Handout (MS-Word 2000 format)

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