Evaluation & Development of Management Approaches
Evaluation & Development of Management Approaches
Natural resource managers throughout the Great Lakes basin face the challenge of understanding the region’s complex and interrelated ecosystems and developing management strategies. There is always need to improve these approaches and develop new ones and the GLSC conducts research to evaluate the effectiveness of assessment methods or develop new methods.
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Development and application of a robot-assisted computer vision system to map Great Lakes bottom habitats and biology
Lake bottom environments are critical zones of interface between geology and biological processes that support health ecosystems and human well-being. Over the past thirty years, Great Lake food webs have become dominated by bottom dwelling invasive species and nuisance algae, that are poorly mapped and understood. USGS is developing a suite of new technologies to map habitat, invasive mussels and...