Ship-Mediated Harmful Microbes: Protecting the Great Lakes Ecosystem

Workshop #1: Monitoring Benefits, Needs, and Methods

• Full Agenda


• Who’s next? A Call for an Early Warning System for New Pathogens in the Great Lakes Basin
  Gary Whelan, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Fisheries Division


• Pathways of Risk
  Fred Dobbs, Marty Stokes, and Jim Winton, Old Dominion University and the Western Fisheries Research Center, US Geological Survey


• Examining Michigan's E. coli Database and Pathogen Monitoring Approaches
  Joan Rose, Water Research, Michigan State University


• Beach and Drinking Water Quality Forecast Development
  Sonia Joseph, NOAA/Center for Great Lakes and Human Health


• The National Wild Fish Health Survey in the Great Lakes Basin (and Beyond)
  Kenneth Phillips, US Fish & Wildlife Service, LaCrosse Fish Health Center


• Pathogen Surveillance: Results of a Pilot Study I
  Jim Casey, Paul Bowser & Mark Bain, Cornell University, Veterinary Medicine and Natural Resources


• Pathogen Surveillance: Results of a Pilot Study
  Marty Stokes, Fred Dobbs, and Jim Winton, Old Dominion University and the Western Fisheries Research Center, US Geological Survey