Posted on September 30, 2024
The GLC is excited to welcome three new fellows to a new binational fellowship program, shared between the GLC, Michigan Sea Grant, the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network (GLSGN), and the International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Regional Office (IJC-GLRO). The recent graduates are coordinating community engagement activities for the Great Lakes Science Plan. Their work will help ensure the plan reflects and supports the needs of underrepresented groups and Indigenous Nations from around the Great Lakes.
Ian Stone – A lifelong Michigander, Ian has spent his life in Southeast and West Michigan studying and appreciating the Great Lakes and the people that call them home. Prior to his role as a Great Lakes Fellow, he studied various aspects of the Great Lakes including harmful algal blooms and hypoxia in the Muskegon Lake Area of Concern, submerged sinkholes of Lake Huron, and marine protected areas.
Megan McLaughlin – Megan is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (UM SEAS), earning her M.S. specializing in geospatial data science. Committed to equitable well-being, she is an experienced community engagement facilitator and her research areas have included climate and health, urban forestry, and coastal management and resilience. Megan is especially interested in designing evaluation and monitoring systems that effectively track and visualize progress towards reaching adaptation and mitigation goals.
Tori Agnew-Camiener – Tori has a B.S. in Marine Biology from Roger Williams University and recently graduated from University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) with a Ph.D. in Marine Estuarine Environmental Science and a focus in molecular science and technology. She has spent most of her career studying disease in oysters and seagrass and has a passion for science that can be used to inform policy and management.
