Edward M. Verhamme

TL;DR: It is shown that long-term trends in agricultural practices are consistent with increasing phosphorus loading to the western basin of the lake, and that these trends, coupled with meteorological conditions in spring 2011, produced record-breaking nutrient loads.

TL;DR: This paper identified a step change that occurred in Lake Superior following the warm El Nino winter of 1997-1998, resulting in a ''regime shift'' in summer evaporation rate, water temperature, and numerous metrics of winter ice cover.

TL;DR: WLEEM is a three dimensional, fine-scale, process-based model that links hydrodynamic, sediment transport, and in-lake biogeochemical and ecological processes that was applied here to assess system sensitivity to a range of variables, and ultimately to develop a robust phosphorus load — cyanobacteria response relationship.

TL;DR: The authors' results indicate multiple larval walleye origins in the field, augmenting the continued production from the Saginaw River system, and supporting arguments for more emphasis on diverse spawning habitat management and restoration.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated hydrodynamic and sediment transport model was applied to Saginaw Bay for the ice-free portions of 2009 and 2010, and the results showed that sediment resuspension in both the inner and outer bay is due almost entirely to surface wave action, and that the bulk of the ressuspension events occur during the fall of each year.