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USGS Director David Applegate, along with Associate Director Anne Kinsinger and Dr. Bo Bunnell listen to Dr. Ed Roseman describe the life cycle of lake sturgeon. Photo Credit: Josh Miller (USGS).

USGS Director David Applegate looks at Sea Lamprey in a tank at the Great Lakes Science Center. Dr. Bo Bunnell and Kevin Keeler describe the animal and our work with this invasive species. Photo Credit: Josh Miller (USGS).

Preparing flower samples for spiking with known DNA for a method development experiment evaluating pollinator environmental-DNA recovery from flowers. Photo credit: Dawn Shively, USGS (contractor).

USGS scientists busy developing methods for identifying pollinators using environmental-DNA. Photo credit: Dawn Shively, USGS (contractor).

The tour group, from left to right, included Scott Miehls and Tyler Bruning (USGS-GLSC), Sabina Ziola (Procom), Nick Johnson (USGS-GLSC), Krzysztof Niezabitowski (Procom), and Pete Hrodey (USFWS). Photo credit: Andrea Miehls, USGS. 

A unique perspective of the Great Lakes Science Center’s research vessel Sturgeon while docked in Kilarney, Ontario, during the 2022 hydroacoustic fishery assessment. Photo credit: Kristy Phillips, USGS.

Approaching the Port Washington Breakwater Light in Wisconsin on a foggy Lake Michigan while heading out for a day of trawling aboard the USGS research vessel Arcticus during a fall forage fish survey. Photo credit: Patty Dieter, USGS.

This image taken on 28 September 2022 depicts a test patch of Phragmites australis after treatment with a bioherbicide. Photo Credit: Spencer Widin

Grasshopper resting on common teasel (Dipsacus fullonum). Photo credit: Taaja Tucker-Silva, USGS.

Characteristic visual differences between control plots receiving water treatment (left) and experimental plots receiving bioherbicide treatment (right).  Photo Credit: Spencer Widin, USGS.

This image taken on 28 September 2022 depicts a control patch of Phragmites australis after treatment with water. Photo Credit: Spencer Widin

A pair of shaggy ink cap mushrooms on a gravel path near the Big Tub Lighthouse in Tobermory, Ontario. Photo credit: Kristy Phillips, USGS.

View of the north side of the Big Tub lighthouse looking out on Lake Huron in Tobermory, Ontario, at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula in Lake Huron. Photo credit: Kristy Phillips, USGS.

USGS Great Lakes Science Center technician processes a bottom trawl catch aboard the research vessel Muskie on Lake Erie during rough seas. Photo credit: Mark DuFour, USGS.

A Coastal fen wetland near Sault Ste. Marie, MI visited by participant of the 2022 Great Lakes Coastal Symposium. Photo Credit: Wes Bickford, USGS

A carnivorous butterwort plant near Sault Ste. Marie visited during the 2022 Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Symposium. Photo Credit: Wes Bickford, USGS.

Participants at the 2022 Great Lakes Coastal Symposium visited Munuscong Bay coastal wetland on September 20, which is located on the St. Marys River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula to learn about Manoomin replanting efforts, water-level management, and the overall ecology of this valued area. Photo Credit: Kurt Kowalski, USGS.

A Pitcher Plant in a fen wetland near near Sault Ste. Marie visited by participant of the 2022 Great Lakes Coastal Symposium. Photo Credit: Wes Bickford, USGS.

Northern cedar roots tangled amongst the bedrock at the John Arthur Woollam Preserve that sits along the northern shore of Lake Huron. Photo credit: Sasha Bozimowski, USGS.

The diversity of larval fishes from one 10-minute tow collected at the surface of Lake Huron by USGS scientists during the 2022 Lake Huron Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative survey. Photo credit: Cory Brant, USGS.

A rocky shoreline near Sault Ste. Marie Michigan visited by participants of the 2022 Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Symposium.