Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News
The Newsletter of the Great Lakes
Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund
The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News is the newsletter of the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund, published five times per year. The News is intended to provide a forum for the free exchange of ideas among citizens and organizations working to protect aquatic habitats in the Great Lakes Basin.
Volume 15, Number 3 • Fall 2007
Database for the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Research Inventory
Mark Burrows, International Joint Commission
The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Research Inventory
(http://ri.ijc.org) is a resource for Great Lakes researchers,
managers and policymakers, with information on approximately
1,200 projects, 1,000 principal investigators and 300 funding
organizations.
The Inventory depends for the most part on voluntary participation
from scientists and agencies willing to share some time and
information in a spirit of collaboration serving the best interests
of the Great Lakes ecosystem.The International Joint Commission
(IJC) invites Great Lakes researchers to submit and update
information on their projects.
Originally developed to help the IJC assess howresearch activities
support the goals of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement,
the Research Inventory recently created direct links and data
sharing agreements with the Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center, the U.S./Canada Great Lakes Monitoring
Exchange and the Great Lakes Regional Research Information
Network. This move towards a more widely distributed network
will continue to make this important tool available to a growing
number of users.
For more information contact: Mark Burrows, IJC Great Lakes
Regional Office, burrowsm@windsor.ijc.org.
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