Multimedia
Videos
Healthy Urban Waters Program
Detroit Biodiversity Network: 2019 Ford College Community Challenge - Sustainable Urban Landscape Collaborative
GSI-Informed Urban Groundwater Monitoring Networks
Don't Feed the Fatberg: Game Trailer
Great Lakes Now - Fatbergs
Real Time Energy Management
Water Energy Nexus
Macomb County Fatberg Project Update February 2019
Wayne State University 2018 EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge
Public Water 101
Ballast Verification to Protect the Great Lakes from Invasive Organisms
Produced By: Jeffrey L. Ram and WSU School of Medicine RamLab, 22 May 2015.
The Great Lakes are threatened by invasive species many of which have arrived in the ballast water of ships from foreign ports. To reduce this route of invasion ballast water treatment systems have been developed and will soon be required by US and international regulations. This video describes what the Ram Laboratory at Wayne State University, with the support of the Great Lakes Protection Fund, is doing to develop automated testing systems for verifying that treatment systems have effectively removed live organisms before ballast water is emptied into the Great Lakes or other US ports.
Keywords: invasive species, international shipping, ballast water, treatment systems and verification
Smart Energy for a Cleaner Great Lakes
LEEM-LMP Emissions Estimation Method
An Introduction to HERO - Home Emissions Read Out
Transnational Environmental Law Clinic - Wayne State University Law School
Produced By: Nick Schroeck, clinic director of WSU Transnational Environmental Law Clinic, 24 April 2015.
The Great Lakes are threatened by invasive species many of which have arrived in the ballast water of ships from foreign ports. To reduce this route of invasion ballast water treatment systems have been developed and will soon be required by US and international regulations. This video describes what the Ram Laboratory at Wayne State University, with the support of the Great Lakes Protection Fund, is doing to develop automated testing systems for verifying that treatment systems have effectively removed live organisms before ballast water is emptied into the Great Lakes or other US ports.
Keywords: invasive species, international shipping, ballast water, treatment systems and verification
Webcasts
Engineers Roles in Environmental Justice Webinar. 17 August 2020
Energy-Water Nexus Webinar. 2 March 2011
Locational Emissions Estimation Methodology (LEEM) Webinar. 17 April 2015.
Websites
Wayne State University Sustainable Water Delivery website
engineering.wayne.edu/wsuwater
Showcases research funded by the Great Lakes Protection Fund (GLPF) that aims at protecting the Great Lakes by improving water utility pumping system efficiency with tools such as PEPSO (Pollutant Emission and Pump Station Optimization) that enable utilities to meet daily capacity in ways that reduce the amount of harmful air emissions related to the amount of electricity used.
Transnational Environmental Law Clinic
law.wayne.edu/clinics/environmental.php
Wayne Law has partnered with the University of Windsor Law School to create North America's first Transnational Environmental Law Clinic. The clinic teaches students the skills and strategies needed to affect environmental policy in all three branches of state and federal government. During classroom sessions, students learn about current environmental policy challenges and opportunities and explore these issues from multiple perspectives.
Great Lakes Environmental Law Center
The Great Lakes Environmental Law Center was founded to protect the world's greatest freshwater resource and the communities that depend upon it. Based in Detroit, the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center was founded on the idea that law students can and must play a significant role in shaping the future of environmental law. The work of GLELC law students are one of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center's most valuable resources.
Locational Emissions Estimation Methodology (LEEM) website
Introduces our real-time emissions calculation tool, Locational Emissions Estimation Methodology (LEEM), that helps reduce harmful air emissions that mix with Great Lakes waters and damage our delicate ecosystem. LEEM offers energy managers, operators, and policy makers a tool to reduce emissions related to electricity without requiring users to reduce energy consumption.
Home Energy Read-Out (HERO) website
Introduces energy users to an accessible mobile platform called Home Energy Read-Out (HERO) that uses LEEM to track electricity-related emissions being released as a result of local energy use. This enables users to time their energy use during times when cleaner energy is servicing the grid.
Energy Emissions Intelligence (E2i) website
E2intel.com
The biggest capacity of LEEM to reduce emissions depends on it being adapted by large-scale energy users like municipal utilities, corporate consumers, and regional energy managers. Energy Emissions Intelligence (E2i) is representing LEEM as part of an emissions intelligence (Ei) platform that connects a customer's location and energy timing to their emissions impact in real-time.
Maps
Interactive WSU-HEART Field Station Map
Explore the Wayne State University Huron-to-Erie Alliance for Research and Training (HEART) Freshwater field stations and the surrounding watersheds using a customized google MyMap.