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FY1999 Great Lakes Projects

Special Session of Workshop on the Ponto-Caspian/Baltic/Great Lakes Invasive Connection

Special Session of Workshop on the Ponto-Caspian/Baltic/Great Lakes Invasive Connection (DW13947936-01-0: $20,000)

Recipient: Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

Project Period: 10/1/99 to 10/1/00

Project Officer: Marc Tuchman (312-353-1369)

The number of successful cross-boundary aquatic species transfers, especially between Eastern Europe (Pont-Caspian region) and Western Europe (Baltic Sea) and North America (Great Lakes), appears to be increasing in frequency. This financial support will provide for a special session or workshop on the Ponto-Caspian-Baltic-Great Lakes invasive species connection, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2000. The goal is to bring together a broad, international group of scientists from Europe and North America to examine existing and emerging aquatic species invasion mechanisms and pathways to the Great Lakes, and to form collaboration for continued studies and information exchange between Great Lakes and European scientists.