Lake Michigan

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Meetings

The Lake Michigan Forum meets at different locations around the Lake Michigan Basin. The purpose of the meetings is to review progress on the LaMP effort, to learn about local issues, and to discuss progress on Forum-sponsored initiatives as outlined in Forum's Work Plan.

Upcoming Meetings


Date

Location

Topic

June 17-19, 2008

Milwaukee, WI

Joint Meeting of the Great Lakes & Miss. River Basin Panels on Aquatic Nuisance Species (For more information, click here)

September 10-12, 2008

Milwaukee, WI

4th Annual Great Lakes Restoration Conference (For more information, click here)

October 11-15, 2008

Providence, RI

4th National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration (For more information, click here)

October 22-23, 2008

Niagara Falls, ON

State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC) 2008 (For more information, click here)

October 26-29, 2008

Traverse City, MI

27th Annual International Submerged Lands Management Conference (For more information, click here)

December 14-17, 2008

Columbus, OH

69th Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference (For more information, click here)


Past Meetings


Date

Location

Topic

May 20-22, 2008

Calumet, IN

3rd Lake Michigan Watershed Academy Conference (For more information, click here)

May 15, 2008

Buffalo, NY

Geospatial Data Management Tools for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Basin

April 29-May 2, 2008

Chicago, IL

21st National Conference on Enhancing the States' Lake Management Programs (For more information, click here)

April 24-25, 2008

Milwaukee, WI

UWM Conference on Climate Change & Sustainable Development 2008 (For more information, click here)

March 10-11, 2008

Traverse City, MI

Michigan Port Cities Collaborative (For more information, contact Cathie Cunningham Ballard at 517-335-3456)

February 26-27, 2008

Washington D.C.

2008 Great Lakes Commission Semiannual Meeting (For more information, click here)

February 11-12, 2008

Chicago, IL

LaMP Review (To download meeting materials, please click here) 4.8MB PDF

December 11, 2007

Gary, IN

U.S. Steel Permit Hearing at Indiana University Northwest

October 3-5, 2007

Traverse City, MI

5th Biennial State of Lake Michigan Conference

June 6-8, 2007

Chicago, IL

Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement/IJC Biennial Meeting

March 1-2, 2007

Milwaukee, WI

Green Issues at Ports

November 1-3, 2006

Milwaukee, WI

SOLEC 2006

September 19-20, 2006

Traverse City, MI

Watershed Governance

June 20-21, 2006

Merrillville, IN

EMS Roundtable and Annex 2001/Compact

March 14-15, 2006

Zion, IL

Mercury Dialogue

November 1-3, 2005

Green Bay, WI

4th Biennial State of Lake Michigan Conference

June 9-11, 2005

Kingston, ON

IJC Biennial Meeting

February 16, 2005

Chicago, IL

Great Lakes Update

October 6-8, 2004

Toronto, ON

SOLEC 2004

June 29-30, 2004

Green Bay, WI

Baird Creek Stewardship Assessment

March 11-12, 2004

Chicago, IL

Baird Creek Stewardship Assessment

October 21-22, 2003

Muskegon, MI

3rd Biennial State of Lake Michigan Conference

September 19-20, 2003

Ann Arbor, MI

IJC Biennial Meeting

June 12-13, 2003

Muskegon, MI

Mona Lake Stewardship Assessment

February 27-28, 2003

Chicago, IL

Air Toxics

November 21-22, 2002

Waukegan, IL

Stewardship Assessment Project

October 16-18, 2002

Cleveland, OH

SOLEC 2002

August 15-16, 2002

Kalamazoo, MI

Technical Assistance Round Robin For Meeting
Watershed Protection Requirements

April 25-25, 2002

Milwaukee, WI

Stewardship Indicators

November 6-7, 2001

Muskegon, MI

2nd Biennial State of Lake Michigan Conference

October 19-20, 2001

Montreal, QC

IJC Biennial Meeting

August 16-17, 2001

Sturgeon Bay, WI

Linking Land Conservation and Watershed Protection
Efforts to Lakewide Habitat Protection Goals

May 7-8, 2001

Three Rivers, MI

Pesticide Use

November 7-9, 2000

Milwaukee, WI

Workshop on Using Models to Develop Air Toxics Reduction Strategies:Lake Michigan as a Test Case

October 17-19, 2000

Hamilton, ON

SOLEC 2000

August 2-3, 2000

Sheboygan, WI

Agricultural Pollution Prevention

April 10-11, 2000

Kalamazoo, MI

Tributary Monitoring � Great Lakes Commission

February 7, 2000

Chicago, IL

Mass Balance Briefing

November 8-9, 1999

Musekgon, MI

1st Biennial State of Lake Michigan Conference

September 23-26, 1999

Milwaukee, WI

IJC Biennial Meeting

August 26-27, 1999

Green Bay, WI

Sustainability in the Lake Michigan Basin

May 10-11, 1999

Traverse City, MI

Biological Pollution Issues in the Lake Michigan Basin

February 22-23, 1999

Porter, IN

Contaminated Sediments in the Lake Michigan Basin

October 21-23, 1998

Buffalo, NY

SOLEC 1998

September 24-26, 1998

NW IN

IJC RAP Summit

August 17-18, 1998

Racine, WI

Making Lake Michigan Great

June 25-26, 1998

East Lansing, MI

Objectives, Funding Priorities and Committee Structure(at U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

April 28-29, 1998

Chicago, IL

Green Mountain Institute for Environmental Democracy

February 8, 1998

Chicago, IL

Urban Land Use (non-Forum meeting)

January 22, 1998

Chicago, IL (?)

Comparative risk

November 1-2, 1997

Niagara Falls, ON

IJC Biennial Meeting

October 31, 1997

Amherst, NY

LaMP Action Agenda, Lake Erie Forum

Jun 18-19, 1997

Hickory Corners, MI

Air Deposition

November 6-8, 1996

Windsor, ON

SOLEC 1996

June 15-17, 1996

Racine, WI

Wingspread Conference: Community-based Action Agenda for Achieving Lakewide Goals

May 13-14, 1996

Manistique, MI

Government Reorganization

November 24, 1995

Duluth, MN

IJC Biennial Meeting