Great Lakes Institute Faculty and Staff
- Director, Great Lakes Research Center
- Adjunct Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering
and Sciences
- Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
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Research Interests
- 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."
- Director, Great Lakes Research Center Operations
Elizabeth Hoy
- Assistant Director, Business & Program Development
- Great Lakes Research Center
Specialties
- Facilitates partnerships that support Institute growth
- Directs the development and distribution of outreach material to external partners
- Oversees administrative operations
Jamey Anderson
- Coordinator of Marine Operations
- Reservations, Great Lakes Research Center Fleet
Specialties
- Oversee research buoys
- Maintain and repair Remote Operated Vehicles
- Maintain R/V Agassiz to USCG standards
- Maintain and operate survey vessels
- Provide electrical and mechanical support of specialized research equipment
Christopher Pinnow
- Electronics/Computer Engineer
Specialties
- 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
Devin Seppala
- Office Assistant
- Great Lakes Research Center
Ryan Williams, GISP
- Geospatial Research Scientist
- Geospatial Research Facility, Great Lakes Research Center
Areas of Expertise
- Geographic Information Systems
- Database Development
- GIS Tool and Process Development
- Integrating Web, GIS, Database and Analytics Tools
- Research Scientist, Great Lakes Research Center
Areas of Interest
- 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
Research Interests
- 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