Vacant to Vibrant: Vacant Land as Green Infrastructure
2012 - Present
A team led by the Cleveland Botanic Garden will establish a neighborhood-based network of vacant small-parcel green infrastructure projects to test the effectiveness of aggregated small parcels as a viable green infrastructure strategy to manage stormwater.
The Great Lakes Clean Communities Network
2012 - Present
A team led by Michigan State University will create a regional, collaborative, network of practitioners for large-scale stormwater management that will be supported and organized by a web-facilitated, interactive community.
Improving Water Management in the Great Lakes Basin - Phase II
2012 - Present
A team led by Great Lakes United will work with communities in the U.S. and Canada to identify and test the ecological and financial rationales for pursuing water conservation and green infrastructure practices, and pilot how this information can drive better water management throughout the Great Lakes region.
Applying Water Stewardship Tools in the Great Lakes Basin
2012 - Present
This team will create a new Great-Lakes specific water stewardship toolkit that will prevent or reduce ecosystem impacts by advancing the sustainability of the Basin’s water resources, and be compatible with industry needs.
Automated Ballast Treatment Verification Project
2012 - Present
The team will create an automated, shipboard, rapid-testing system that will be able report, in real time, the presence of any live organisms in ballast water following treatment.
Improving Water Management in the Great Lakes Basin
2012 - 2012
This is a planning grant to identify the ecological benefits and explore the financial rationale for pursuing water conservation and green infrastructure practices, and test how this information—when combined with effective knowledge transfer techniques—can drive better water management throughout the Great Lakes basin.
Founders Film: A Look Back to Go Forward
2012 - 2012
This team is producing a short-format film documenting the Fund's founding governors, their vision for the Great Lakes and the steps they took to put that vision into action.
Great Lakes River Mouths and the Region's Economic and Environmental Future
2011 - 2012
This is a planning grant that will seek to develop a new regional approach to Great Lakes river mouth redevelopment that will be founded on protecting and restoring hydrological and ecological services and managing Great Lakes river mouths as a network.
Characterizing the Risk-Release Relationship for Aquatic Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
2011 - Present
This team will develop new scientific methods to estimate the risk of establishment of aquatic invasive species and will determine how the invasion risks vary with the numbers of invasive organisms released into the environment.
Watershed Ecological Sustainability Strategy - Transactions for Agricultural Ecosystem Services
2011 - Present
This team will design and test different transaction frameworks that will improve how resources and funding flows to water stewardship practices on farms.
