2019 – SER Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter

Illinois Native Plant Society Offers 2020 Research Grants

Application Period Now Open Students, citizen scientists, conservation groups and institutions are alerted to consider applying for a grant ranging from $500-$1500 to fund one-year projects. The grant is for research-focused studies on Illinois native plants such as life history,...Read More

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Speakers Sought for Macroinvertebrate Symposium at 2020 Annual Meeting

Call for Macroinvertebrate Symposium Speakers at the 2020 SER-MGWL Annual Meeting in Lyndhurst, OH: We are Tyler Shuman and Deanne Jensen, student researchers at Purdue University Fort Wayne and student members of the SER-MWGL chapter. As researchers, our primary focus...Read More

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INPS 2020 Research Grant and Survey Grant Programs Announced

The Illinois Native Plant Society has announced its 2020 Research Grant and Survey Grant Programs. Students, citizen scientists, conservation groups and institutions are alerted to consider applying for a grant ranging from $500-$1500 to fund one-year projects. The grant is...Read More

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2020 Annual Meeting: Call for Abstracts and Symposia, Workshop Proposals

The 12th annual chapter meeting of the Midwest Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) will be held: March 27-29, 2020 The Acacia Reservation Lyndhurst, Ohio We are grateful for our generous meeting hosts – Cleveland Metroparks...Read More

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SER MWGL Member in Action: Jessica Miller

SER MWGL Secretary, Jessica Miller is featured in the latest Member in Action Profile from the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER). Jessica is a long-time member of the Board of Directors of the Midwest Great Lakes Chapter of SER Jessica...Read More

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Public Comment Period on Cardinal to Hickory Power Line Now Open

Cardinal to Hickory Creek CD States of Wisconsin and Illinois Will Be Affected The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is proposing to allow existing transmission line rights-of-way to be realigned. ITC Midwest LLC and Dairyland Power Cooperative...Read More

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North American Ecological Restoration Conference will be held in Québec City, June 2020

The Society for Ecological Restoration is proud to be hosting the RE3 Conference from June 7-11, 2020 in Quebec City in partnership with the Canadian Land Reclamation Association (CLRA), and the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS). The dawn of the...Read More

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Illinois DNR Announces Habitat Fund Project Grants

October 24, 2020–From The Prairie State Wire come news of a series of restoration and habitat improvement grants made by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to 11 wildlife habitat projects through the Illinois Habitat Fund Special Wildlife Funds Grant...Read More

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West Michigan Restoration Tour

West Michigan Restoration Talk and Tour Sponsored by the Midwest Great Lakes Chapter of SER Please join the Michigan branch of the MidWest Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) on Friday, October 18th, 1 pm ~...Read More

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SER MWGL Board Member Attends UN Youth Climate Summit

Elena_Embarks for UN Climate Summit in NYC Elena Stachew, Midwest Great Lakes Chapter member from The University of Akron, attended the 2019 UN Youth Climate Summit on Saturday September 21 at the United Nations in New York City. Elena is...Read More

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Threats to Great Lakes Water Resources

Just a few new items from the past week regarding threats to the surface and groundwater resources of the nation, the Great Lakes and the Midwest region. WOTUS under attack by Trump Admin First up, from Our Dailey Planet, comes...Read More

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SER MWGL Members in Action

SER MWGL Vice-president Joins Practical Farmers of Iowa Habitat Program Mary Damm, current Vice-president of the Midwest Great Lakes Chapter of Society for Ecological Restoration (SER MWGL) has been named to the steering committee of the Habitat Program of the...Read More

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Highlights of the 2019 SER MWGL Annual Meeting in Pella, Iowa

Cultivating Innovative Restoration Connections in the Midwest Over 200 restoration ecologists attended the 11th Annual Scientific Meeting of the SER Midwest Great Lakes Chapter April 12-14, 2019 at Central College in Pella, Iowa. The theme of the meeting was Cultivating...Read More

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Midwest Restoration News Updates

The Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) Four new partners have successfully competed to join the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research’s Regional Consortium, further expanding CIGLR’s capacity and expertise to understand, predict, and ultimately solve the critical issues...Read More

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2019 Student Research and Implementation Grant Awards Announced

Winners of the 2019 SER MWGL student research and student implementation grants were announced at the chapter’s recently concluded annual scientific meeting in Pella, Iowa. Since 2014 the Midwest Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration...Read More