Great Lakes Now will webcast highlights from the Great Lakes Commission 2015 Annual Meeting and the Great Lakes Restoration Conference – View the Schedule >
Monday Sept 28 | Tuesday Sept 29 | Wednesday Sept 30
Monday September 28, 2015 |
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| Time | Session | Description | On Demand |
| 10:30am CT | Report from the Great Lakes Protection Fund | Russell Van Herik, Executive Director, Great Lakes Protection Fund | Play ► |
| 11am CT | Keynote Address | Jeff Malehorn, President and CEO, World Business Chicago | Play ► |
| 11:30am CT | Keynote Address | Stan Meiburg, Acting Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Play ► |
| 12:10pm CT | Opening Remarks & Welcome to Illinois | Jon Allan (MI), Acting Chair, Great Lakes Commission; Tim Eder, Executive Director, Great Lakes Commission | Play ► |
| 12:15pm CT | Special Welcoming Remarks | Honorable Richard Durbin, U.S. Senator, Illinois | Play ► |
| 1pm CT | Rebroadcast – Keynote Address | Stan Meiburg, Acting Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Play ► |
| 1:30pm CT | Keynote Address | Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works); | Play ► |
| 1:42pm CT | Invasive Species and the Chicago Area Waterway System | Panelists: Kevin Irons, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Paul Dierking, HDR Engineering | Play ► |
| 12:15pm CT | The Path Forward | Tim Brown, Chicago Area Waterway System Advisory Committee, David St. Pierre, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago; Ben Brockschmidt, Illinois Chamber of Commerce; Joel Brammeier, Alliance for the Great Lakes | Play ► |
| 3pm CT | Discussion with Commissioners of the Great Lakes Commission and Great Lakes Fishery Commission | Commissioners from the Great Lakes Commission and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. | Play ► |
| Recorded 9:45am CT | Keynote Address | Christine St. Pierre, Minister of International Relations and La Francophonie for the Province of Quebec | Play ► |
Tuesday September 29, 2015 |
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| Time | Session | Description | On Demand |
| 9:45am CT | Opening Remarks & Welcome to Chicago | Panelists: Todd Ambs, Campaign Director, Healing Our Waters – Great Lakes Coalition; Lynn McClure, Midwest Regional Director, National Parks Conservation Assoc.; Mike Shriberg, Great Lakes Regional Exec. Dir., National Wildlife Federation; Kristy Meyer, Managing Director of Agricultural, Health, and Clean Water Programs, Ohio Environmental Council | Play ► |
| 10:45am CT | Restoring Diversity in the Indiana Dunes | Panelists: Daniel Mason, Ph.D., Wetland Scientist, Botanist at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; Gia Wagner, Natural Resources Branch Chief, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; Cathy Martin, Parks Program Coordinator, Save the Dunes
#INDunes |
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| 11:45am CT | Healing Fractured Water in Urban Environments | Panelists: Bill Carr, Ontario Associate Commissioner, Great Lakes Commission; John Jackson, Great Lakes Commission (Ontario); Christine Zimmer, Senior Manager, Watershed Protection & Restoration, Credit Valley Conservation; Harriet Festing, Director, Water Program, Center for Neighborhood Technology; Aaron Koch, Deputy Commissioner for Sustainability, City of Chicago Department of Water Management
#Algae |
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| 12:30pm CT | Rebroadcast: Special Welcoming Remarks | Honorable Richard Durbin, U.S. Senator, Illinois | Play ► |
| 12:45pm CT | Keynote Speech | Chris Adamo, Chief of Staff, White House Counsel on Environmental Quality | Play ► |
| 1:30pm CT | Great Rivers Chicago — Reconnecting Chicago and its Rivers | MarySue Barrett, President, Metropolitan Planning Council | Play ► |
| 2:30pm CT | Urban Green Infrastructure: Barriers and Opportunities | Panelists: Shawn McElmurry, Associate Professor, Wayne State University; Greg Holman, Data & Assets Manager, Detroit Land Bank Authority; Khalil Ligon, Southeast Michigan Outreach Coordinator, Alliance for the Great Lakes; Valerie Strassberg, Urban Conservative Director, The Nature Conservancy
#GreenInfrastructure |
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| 3:40pm CT | Solving a Great Binational Challenge: Lake Erie Algal Blooms | Panelists: Jill M. Ryan, Executive Director, Freshwater Future; Lindsay Telfer, Director, Canadian Freshwater Alliance; Kristy Meyer, Managing Director of Agricultural, Health & Clean Water Programs, Ohio Environmental Council; Michael Murray, Staff Scientist, National Wildlife Federation
#Algae |
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Wednesday September 30, 2015 |
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| Time | Session | Description | On Demand |
| 9:00am CT | The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement Promise: Engaging the Region for Swimmable, Fishable, and Drinkable Great Lakes | Panelists: Joel Brammeier, President, Alliance for the Great Lakes; Kathryn Buckner, President, Council of Great Lakes Industries; John Jackson, Project Manager, Greater Lakes: Reconnecting the Great Lakes Water Cycle; Dereth Glance, Commissioner, International Joint Commission
#GLWQA |
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| 10:15am CT | Environmental Justice: Busted Myths & Burgeoning Solutions | Panelists: Simone Lightfoot, Regional Urban Initiatives, National Wildlife Federation; Ernest Coverson, Regional Director, Amnesty International; Mary Mulligan, Brownfields Specialist, Office of Env. Affairs, City of Gary, Ind.; Kim Wasserman-Nieto, Organizing & Strategy Director, Little Village Environmental Justice Org.
#EnviroJustice |
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| 11:15am CT | Joint Session with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission: Invasive Species and the Chicago Area Waterway System | Introduction of commissioners to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission | Play ► |
| 11:40am CT | Great Rivers Chicago: A Comprehensive Plan | Panelists: Josh Ellis, Program Director, Metropolitan Planning Council; Kim Wasserman-Nieto, Organizing & Strategy Director, Little Village Environmental Justice Org.; Carol Ross Barney, Ross Barney Architects; Paul Ozinga, Ozinga Materials; Mike Kelly, General Superintendent & CEO, Chicago Park District;
#GreatRiversChi |
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| 1:15pm CT | A Complicated Connection – Re-envisioning the Chicago Area Waterway System | Panelists: Joel Brammeier, President, Alliance for the Great Lakes; Frank Manzo, IV, Policy Director, Illinois Economic and Policy Institute; Erika Witzke, Freight, Transportation, and Policy Consultant, Cambridge Systematics, Inc.; Debra Shore, Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
#AsianCarp |
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