Great Lakes Institute Faculty and Staff

Guy Meadows

Large scale field experimentation in the Inland Seas of the Great Lakes and coastal oceans
Nearshore hydrodynamics and prediction
Autonomous and semi-autonomous environmental monitoring platforms (surface and sub-surface)
Underwater acoustic remote sensing
Marine engineering

"Sure, we can do that."

Facilitates partnerships that support Institute growth
Directs the development and distribution of outreach material to external partners
Oversees administrative operations

Support GLRC and APSRC research programs
Focus on measurements of the over water and in-water environments
Support design, fabrication, testing & utilization of prototype field deployable instruments, including programming and decision support algorithms
Statistical analysis of remote sensing and in situ data sets

Ecology of aquatic systems
Fisheries science
Aquatic-terrestrial energy linkages
Dietary biomarkers (e.g., stable isotopes, fatty acids, compound-specific isotopes of AA and FA)
Trophic ecology of top predators in marine, estuarine and coastal communities
Predator-prey interactions

Understanding species- and food web-level responses to environmental stressors using combined dietary biomarker, ecological and modeling approaches
Evaluating distributional patterns of organisms and the mechanisms that drive these patterns
Using abundance and biomass estimates to quantify nekton communities
Quantifying the mechanisms and processes that structure food webs and ecosystems
Developing ecosystem models to evaluate the effect of environmental change