Contents

• Cover: Updates on IAGLR initiatives by Jérôme Marty

Association News

• IAGLR 2023 survey highlights
• Conferencing better

Member News

• Welcome new members
• Kudos
• Member profile: Jordanna Bergman
• In memoriam: Michael Fraker
• Articles: Legal Frameworks & Governance
• Talking Rivers: Rights and Responsibilities by Abraham Francis, Blake Lavia, and Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo
• Watershed science and the public trust doctrine by Jim Olson
• Canada’s strengthened freshwater agenda and historic Great Lakes investment by Carla Torchia
• A look at Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding by Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
• Sackett v. EPA ruling puts half of U.S. wetlands at risk by Dave Dempsey
• Ontario moves backward on land and water protections in the Great Lakes basin by Andrea Kirkwood
• Report review: Turning the Tide: A Call to Collective Action by Kyle McKee and Bopi Biddanda
• Community News
• Global water action agendas by Catherine Masson
• Will the Anthropocene epoch be defined in a freeze core from Crawford Lake, Canada? by Francine McCarthy
• Help shape a basinwide, coordinated 10-Year science plan for the Great Lakes
• Great Lakes AquaHacking Challenge 2023–2024
• Back Page
• JGLR Call for Papers on coastal processes
• Seeking microplastics authors
• Apply for a scholarship
• IAGLR 2024 Call for Sessions