Draft Indicator Reports
Indicators have been used to report on Great Lakes ecosystem components since the first SOLEC in 1994. In 2010, the Great Lakes indicator suite was reviewed by experts to deliver an improved, updated and representative indicator suite that reports on the state of the Great Lakes in a comprehensive, understandable and science-based manner.
As a result of this review, reporting categories and some individual indicators have changed.
A Summary of the Great Lakes Indicator Review is available for those that would like more information on the review process.
Draft State of the Great Lakes 2012 indicator reports are available for SOLEC participants in advance of the conference. These reports are prepared by hundreds of authors and contributors from a wide-range of agencies and organizations. This information is used to assist with assessing the overall state of the Great Lakes.
Comments on these draft materials will be invited through January 31, 2012. The final indicator reports will be posted online at www.binational.net in the winter of 2012.
The following indicator reports are available for download (please note the indicators are arranged by category as well as in alphabetic order).
Water Quality
Aquatic-Dependent Life
Landscapes and Natural Processes
Economic and Social Drivers
Human Impacts
Fish and Wildlife Impacts
- Botulism Outbreaks
- Endocrine Disruption - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Fish Disease Occurrences - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
Pollution and Nutrients
- Atmospheric Deposition
- Bacterial Loadings from Tributaries - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Contamination in Sediment
- Industrial Loadings - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Inland Water Quality Index
- Municipal Wastewater Loadings - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Nutrients in Tributaries - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Pesticides in Tributaries - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
Invasive Species
Resource Use and Physical Stressors
Restoration and Protection
State of the Great Lakes 2012 Draft Indicator Reports (in alphabetical order)
- Air Temperature
- Aquatic Habitat Connectivity
- Aquatic Non-Native Species
- Artificial Coastal Structures - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Atmospheric Deposition
- Bacterial Loadings from Tributaries - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Bald Eagles - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Baseflow due to Groundwater Discharge
- Beach Advisories
- Benthos (Freshwater Oligochaete) Diversity and Abundance
- Botulism Outbreaks
- Cladophora
- Coastal Wetland Amphibians
- Coastal Wetland Bird Communities
- Coastal Wetland Fish Communities - progress report available
- Coastal Wetland Invertebrates - progress report available
- Coastal Wetland Landscape Extent and Composition - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Coastal Wetland Plant Communities
- Conserving and Protecting Forest Lands - COMING SOON
- Contaminants in Waterbirds
- Contaminants in Whole Fish
- Contamination in Sediment
- Diporeia
- Dreissenid Mussels
- Drinking Water Quality
- Economic Prosperity
- Educating Great Lakes Basin Residents - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Endocrine Disruption - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Energy Consumption
- Enhancing Wildlife and Conserving Soil and Water on Agricultural Lands
- Fish Consumption Restrictions
- Fish Disease Occurrences - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Fish Habitat - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Forest Cover
- Forest Disturbance - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Groundwater Quality - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Hardened Shoreline
- Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
- Human Populations
- Ice Duration - COMING SOON
- Implementing Industrial Efficiency Measures - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Industrial Loadings - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Inland Water Quality Index
- Lake Sturgeon
- Lake Trout
- Land Cover - COMING SOON
- Major Ions - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Municipal Wastewater Loadings - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Nutrients in Lakes
- Nutrients in Tributaries - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Pesticides in Tributaries - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Phytoplankton
- Piping Plover - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Precipitation Events
- Preyfish Populations
- Protecting and Restoring of Habitats and Species - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Protecting Special Lakeshore Areas - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Remediating Contaminated Sediment
- Sea Lamprey
- Sediment Coastal Nourishment - to be revisited for SOLEC 2014
- Stocking Native Fish - to be revisited for SOLEC 2014
- Surface Water Temperature
- Terrestrial Non-Native Species
- Threatened Species - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Toxic Chemicals in Offshore Waters
- Treating Wastewater
- Tributary Flashiness
- Value of the Great Lakes - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
- Walleye
- Water Chemistry
- Water Clarity
- Water Levels
- Watershed Stressors Index - COMING SOON
- Withdrawing Water Sustainably
- Zooplankton Biomass
- Zooplankton Health - to be developed for SOLEC 2014
Indicator reports will be posted on this site as they become available. Please check back regularly to access the most up-to-date information on the state of the Great Lakes.
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