Past Meetings
Information about past meetings of the Great Lakes Panel can be found here. Materials from past meetings can be found in our resource library or by using the search function below.
Past Great Lakes Panel Meeting Materials
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Past Meeting Agendas and Summaries
The most recent Panel meeting was held in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, on June 25-27, 2024
- Meeting Agenda
- Member updates
- Meeting summary (coming soon!)
- Committee agendas:
- Presentations:
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Fisheries and Oceans Canada Highlight
- DFO invasive carp update – Maude Tremblay, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
- Canadian border watercraft inspections – Brendan Spearin, DFO
- DFO science program update – Andrew Drake & Sarah Bailey, DFO
Business Meeting
- GLP Business Items – Eric Fischer, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR), GLP Chair
- GLP Interjurisdictional Project updates – Ceci Weibert, and Alisha Davidson, Great Lakes Commission
- GLRI Action Plan IV – Kevin O’Donnell, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- GLANSIS Update– Rochelle Sturtevant, GLANSIS Program Manager, Michigan Sea Grant Extension
- ANSTF Update – Susan Pasko, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
- Ruffe Control Program – Nick Frohnauer and Mike Rucinski, U.S. FWS
Plenary Session: Shipping
- Great Waters Research Collaborative – Christine Polkinghorne, University of Wisconsin-Superior
- Soo Locks – Jeff Harrington, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- VIDA update – Jack Faulk, U.S. EPA
- Transport Canada update – Ben Hayes, Transport Canada
- Lake Carriers Association update – Debra DiCianna, Lake Carriers Association
Plenary Session: Binational Species of Concern
- Water soldier in the Trent-Severn waterway – Randy Power, Parks Canada Agency and Mary Gunning, Quinte Conservation
- Marbled crayfish in Ontario – Colin Lake, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) and Brook Schryer, Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters
- Signal crayfish in Minnesota – Don Eaton, MN DNR
- Invasive Crayfish Collaborative five year strategic planning process update – Natalia Szklaruk, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
- Michigan red swamp crayfish structured decision-making planning process – Kathleen Quebedeaux, MI DNR
- New OMNRF species regulations and implications for listing – Francine MacDonald, OMNRF
- MN DNR new species listings – Kelly Pennington, MN DNR
Plenary Session: Management of Shared Waterways
- AIS surveillance in the St. Marys River – Mike Rucinski, USFWS & Ryan Grow, Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians
- European frog-bit in the St. Marys River (part 1) & Part 2 – Shane Lishawa, Loyola University Chicago & Mike Hindy, Three Shores CISMA
- GLWQA Annexes 5 (Discharges from Vessels) and 6 (AIS) – Kirk Beckman, U.S. Coast Guard and Mike Weimer, U.S. FWS
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2017
- 1st Binational Great Lakes Aquatic Invasive Species Forum Agenda- Erie, Pennsylvania
- 1st Binational Great Lakes Aquatic Invasive Species Forum Meeting Summary
- 2nd Binational Great Lakes Aquatic Invasive Species Forum Agenda- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- 2nd Binational Great Lakes Aquatic Invasive Species Forum Meeting Summary