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Climate change creates uncertainty for Indiana’s aquatic animals, plants
Warming temperatures and changes to Indiana’s precipitation patterns will challenge the ability for state fish to survive, according to a new report from the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment...
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Climate change poses uncertain future for Indiana’s aquatic habitats
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Indiana’s average air temperatures are expected to rise by as much as 6 degrees Fahrenheit by mid-century, warming and reducing wintertime ice cover on the state’s lakes,...
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Partnerships are key to Great Lakes cleanups
Caitie Nigrelli (center) stands with EPA staff and nonfederal partners at a sediment remediation site in one of the Great Lakes Areas of Concern. Cleaning up contaminated rivers, lakes and harbors...
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Solar-Powered IoT Buoy Blends STEM Education and Scientific Research
The Michigan City buoy is deployed each spring and retrieved in the fall. (Hope Charters/Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant) An article titled “Solar-Powered IoT Buoy Blends STEM Education and Scientific...
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Coastal Management Fellow gains experience, continues career in Miami
Monica Gregory was paired with mentors, Ken Richardson (left) and Tancred Miller (right), at the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management while she was a NOAA Coastal Management Fellow....
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Intern Blog: Crystal Hall conducts research with USGS
Crystal Hall holds a fish off the coast of Lake Michigan near Jeorse Park on June 28, 2018. Hall and the USGS team used the electroshocking method to survey fish populations in Lake Michigan. (Photo...
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Zephyr Oil Refinery wetland near Michigan’s Muskegon River is cleaned up
Caitie Nigrelli conducts a site visit at the former Zephyr Oil Refinery in Muskegon, Michigan, near the end of the excavation process on July 25, 2018. Contaminated sediment was placed on a drying pad...
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Grant awarded to communicate natural lawn care practices in Illinois
URBANA, Ill. – Seven projects have been selected to receive funding in the 2018 Interdisciplinary Collaboration Extension (ICE) grant competition. ICE grants fund partnerships between University of...
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Purdue culinary leadership and local chefs take aquaculture tour
Purdue University chefs and local restaurant representatives get an up close look at farm-raised barramundi during a tour of Meador Farms in Cutler, Indiana, on June 23, 2018. (Photo Purdue University...
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Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant sponsors four new medicine collection programs
Police officers, staff and volunteers collect unwanted medicine at take-back events. (Photo Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant / Sarah Zack) Improper disposal of unwanted medicine is both a public safety and...
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Weathering the Storms: How one team of Illinois researchers is addressing...
(University of Illinois Photo/Abigail Bobrow) Many Chicago communities have issues with flooding after storms. Abigail Bobrow of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has written and photographed...
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Sea Grant efforts helped Sheboygan achieve an economic and environmental boost
The Sheboygan River has become a popular place for recreation since the 2012 cleanup. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Nigrelli) Lately, Sheboygan is on the upswing. This city in Wisconsin that sits along...
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Job opportunity: aquaculture marketing extension specialist
Are you serious about seafood? Fired up about fishes? Mad about marketing? If so, then Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant is looking for you! We are hiring an aquaculture marketing extension specialist to...
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Funds available to support collaborative research on Lake Michigan coastal...
Special Joint Request for Proposals from Michigan, Illinois-Indiana and Wisconsin: Understanding and Communicating Coastal Hydrodynamics and Nearshore Sediment Transport Processes on Lake Michigan to...
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AIS specialist steps into new role as IISG’s outreach program leader
After 20 years as an aquatic invasive species specialist, Pat Charlebois is taking on a leadership role in Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant’s outreach program. (Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Photo/Irene Miles)...
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IISG will fund Lake Michigan research: Submit your preproposal
The Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program (IISG) has up to $600,000 to invest in promising research projects relevant to southern Lake Michigan and surrounding coastal communities in northeast...
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10 years of IISG-supported community medicine collection adds up to over...
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant’s (IISG) leading-edge initiative to support local medicine collection programs is marking its 10-year anniversary. Over this time, IISG-supported community programs in four...
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Graduate student opportunities in aquatic ecology
Purdue University’s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources (FNR) is now accepting applications for graduate student (PhD or MS) assistantships in aquatic ecology to work with FNR and...
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Coordinated Lake Michigan research focused on key management questions
Researchers on the R/V Lake Guardian collect samples to study sediment from the lake bottom. (Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant photo/Allison Neubauer) Every five years, Lake Michigan is the focus of intense...
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Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant funds aquaculture, invasive species, pollution...
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) is excited to announce the funding of five new Discovery Projects. These small, one-year projects help researchers achieve bigger and better things, such as larger...
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