Greal Lakes Research Consortium.

The Great Lakes Research Consortium, hereon GLRC, is a
multinational environmental research project established
in 1986 by SUNY, covering the Great Lakes and directed from
SUNY-ESF, the SUNY College of Environmental Science/Forestry.
Within the GLRC project, I have joined one of its Task Groups.

Today, there are over 185 member in universities in New York
plus 56 at affiliated campuses in Ontario, including several 
SUNYs, Clarkson , Cornell and Syracuse universities and the
universities at Ottawa, Toronto, Guelph, Waterloo and Windsor,
in Canada, among other institutions.

The GLRC Consortium has three principal goals:
1) to facilitate research and scholarship on the Great Lakes;
2) to provide opportunities for training/education of students
3) to disseminate important information/findings gathered
through endeavors of the Consortium and its member institutions.

Major Activities Include:
* 34 seminars/year, held at all member campuses
* workshops to facilitate info exchange/initiate discussions
* collatorative/interdisciplinary research/education proposals
* small grant funding of preliminary collaborative research
* technical assistance/expert advice to individuals
* distribution (via SUNY at Buffalo) of bimonthly newsletter

Some Major Accomplishments:
* more than 20 research projects undertaken
* more than 200 researchers/faculty participating in GLRC
* helping  to obtain State funds for research in Great Lakes
* providing tech assistance and representing views/interests
* organizing groundbreaking conferences on ecosystems, etc.

The Consortium Ecosystem Dynamics Research Group, to which
I have integrated, was formed approximately one year ago. It
pursues the development of collaborative research in the area
of management of aquatic ecosystems. My first official activ-
ity in this Consortium will be to present my work in the
discrete event simulation of acquatic systems.