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Superior: State-of-the-Lake Conference
 Co-conveners: Dr. Marty Auer (MTU, Local Host) and Dr. Mohi Munawar (AEHMS) |
 There were five, half-day technical sessions. |
 Dr. Bob Megard (University of Minnesota) presents theories relating temperature and zooplankton distribution. |
 Joan Chadde of the MTU Center for Science & Environmental Outreach offering a coffee-break exercise |
 Jason Kahn (MTU) speaking on benthos off the Keweenaw Peninsula |
 From the look on his face, this must be a very difficult question. |
 Professor Travis Wyman (aka MTU’s Dr. Bob Keen) asks Marty Auer to take a seat so that conferees can hear the real story about Louis and Alexander Agassiz. |
 Professor Wyman explains that Louis Agassiz led the first major scientific exploration of Lake Superior … |
 … and that Louis’ son Alexander later came to the Keweenaw Peninsula to save the copper industry. |
 Banquet – Whitefish dinner served in the lobby of MTU’s Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts. |
 Dr. Nancy Auer (MTU) introduces a very special person, Dr. James F. Kitchell (University of Wisconsin) |
 Jim Kitchell speaks on the Lake Superior food web. |
 Not really a part of the food web … |
 … nonetheless, leading to the demise of the lake trout. |
 Leading a prayer for more modeling in Great Lakes sciences. |
 Some pronounce it ‘bur-boh’ |
 At the end of the evening … Dr. Mohi Munawar (AEHMS), Dr. Bob Keen (Retrospective Presenter, MTU), Dr. Jim Kitchell (Banquet Speaker, U. Wisconsin), Dr. Marty Auer (Local Host, MTU). |
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