PERM Meeting – October 30, 2009

The Partnership for Ecosystem Research and Management (PERM) is a formal partnership among Michigan State University (MSU) and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Fisheries and Wildlife Divisions, and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. On October 30, 2009, the first of what we anticipate will be a sequence of annual meetings was held to foster improved communication and collaboration among PERM partners and to showcase outputs and impacts of PERM-related research. The meeting was focused around three case studies – bass, bears, and bloodsuckers (also know as sea lamprey). During each case study presentation, the research problem was defined, research activities were outlined, research impacts were discussed, and presenters reflected on the lessons learned.

BASS Case Study Video

Bear Case Study Video

Bloodsuckers (Sea Lamprey) Case Study Video

To highlight the diversity of participants in PERM-related research, ten graduate students, one post-doc and one undergraduate student each gave a brief description (“short snapper”) of their research project and developed a handout to complement their presentation. Click on the links below to view the “short snapper” handouts.

Student “Short Snapper” Summaries

• Darren Thornbrugh (Infante) - Structure of fish assemblages along environmental gradients

• Brian Irwin (Bence) - Defining harvest policies for recreational fisheries

• Jody Simoes (Lupi) – The Michigan recreational angler survey. Tracking status and trends of Michigan’s anglers and their resource use

• Scott Knoche (Lupi) – Economic value of hunting access

• Matt Horsley (Bremigan) – Estimation of bass fry abundance

• Jared Myers (Jones) - The importance of the larval stage to cisco recruitment variation in the Great Lakes

• Brian Langseth (Jones) - Lake Huron decision analysis

• Shauna Hanisch (Riley) - Human dimensions of wildlife health management

• Bret Muter (Riley) - Influence of social networks on stakeholder perceptions of risk associated with human-cormorant conflict in northern Lake Huron

• Cory Brant (Li) - Investigations of sea lamprey pheromones

• Trevor Meckley (Wagner) – Does exposure to migratory pheromone induce staging by migrating sea lampreys at river mouths? A proof of concept study

• Sherry Martin (Hayes) - The land use legacy effect: including temporal context in lake eutrophication