Contents

Features

• Plastic pollution: A full life-cycle issue by Sherri Mason
• Developing frameworks for monitoring and assessing the ecological risk of microplastics in the Laurentian Great Lakes by Eden Hataley, Karen Kidd, Chelsea Rochman & Rebecca Rooney
• Clean Shores, Great Lakes: Preventing microplastics from entering the African Great Lakes through citizen science cleanups by Bahati Mayoma, Conrad Sparks & Farhan Khan
• A ripple effect caused by a science-arts-cultural collaboration: Plastic pollution in the Great Lakes watershed by Patricia Corcoran, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Jazvac & Sara Belontz
• Research Briefs
• Learning from the last decade of microplastics research in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Tools needed for the future of microplastics management by Eden Hataley & Chelsea Rochman
• Litter to pollution in Great Lakes: Levels and factors by Varun Kasaraneni
• Research unearths microplastics and algae nexus in the Great Lakes by Kishore Gopalakrishnan and Donna Kashian

Association News

• A note from the executive director
• IAGLR 2024 update
• 2024 membership drive
• Call for award nominations
• Lakes Letter survey
• Seeking JGLR editor
• Organize a special section in the Journal of Great Lakes Research
• Season of Giving
• Geat Lakes Benefactors

Member News

• Kudos
• Welcome new members
• Member profiles: Heather Dettman, Harris Phiri, and Lisa Sonnenburg
• Community News
• New center to focus on climate resilience in boundary water areas
• IJC recommends three key actions to address Great Lakes water quality
• Honoring Mike Fraker by supporting future scientists
• Great Lakes Fishery Commission Call for Proposals