Outreach
CEGLHH uses a multidisciplinary approach to translate scientific information and research into materials to aid health officials, local governments, and communities in making sound environmental decisions. In order to translate scientific materials into a concise, easily understood format and identify community needs, outreach is critical, CEGLHH's Outreach Coordination serves two roles, identifying and assessing user needs (related to Great Lakes and human health) and disseminating scientific information, technology, and research materials to aid health officials, local governments, and communities in making sound environmental decisions.
The essence of outreach is information sharing. It is a service which identifies various stakeholder groups and includes these groups in activities designed to increase awareness, participation, and education on a specific topic or issue.
Goals
- Build cross-disciplinary working relationships between environmental, public health, and Great Lakes communities and professionals by networking and establishing information- sharing partnerships with health, community, and environmental stakeholder groups.
- Increase CEGLHH's network and information-sharing partners to engage a larger, diverse audience group, including new audiences such as under served members of the population (based on socioeconomics, race, age, etc.) and NOAA's non-user groups such as, beach managers, drinking water operators, & public health professionals..
- Increase NOAA's capacity to facilitate informed decision-making on Great Lakes and human health issues.
- Promote environmental awareness and literacy, using multiple outreach methods, by educating and increasing understanding of the relationship between the Great Lakes and human health.
- Reduce public health risks for all users of the Great Lakes.
Strong communication and coordination is taking place between the Outreach Coordinator and state and local public health & environmental managers. Information sharing partnerships and collaborative relationships have been established with existing environmental health networks, associations, and multiple Great Lakes stakeholder groups. Outreach activities include a broad range of activities such as public presentations, exhibits and displays at various public events, development of fact sheets, an annual newsletter, needs assessment workshops, and training institutes.
Events
- May 1, 2008: Presentation: Great Lakes & Your Health- How are they connected?
2008 Rouge River Water Festival
(Dearborn, Michigan) - March 13, 2008: Presentation-
CEGLHH's Beach Forecasting Research in the Grand River.
2008 Michigan Environmental Health Association Annual Education Conference
(Bay City, Michigan) - April 2, 2008: Michigan Unwanted
Medicine Disposal: Doing it the Right Way Workshop
(Howell, Michigan) - March 6, 2008: Harmful Algal
Bloom Training Workshop
(St. Paul, Minnesota) - March 5, 2008: Harmful Algal
Bloom Training Workshop
(Mankato, Minnesota) - March 4, 2008: Harmful Algal
Bloom Training Workshop
(Sauk Centre, Minnesota) - November 19, 2007: Ottawa County Water Quality Meeting
- October 3, 2007: Beach Health Research Needs Meeting: Continuing the Communication
- July 24, 2007: Cafe Discussion/Needs Assessment Workshop: Linking Oceans and Human
Health for Sustainable Management of Coastal Ecosystems
(Portland Oregon) -
July 15, 2007: Huron River Day Festival
(Ann Arbor, Michigan) - May 8, 2007: Michigan Harmful
Algal Bloom Stakeholder Workshop
Bay City Riverfront DoubleTree Hotel (Bay City, Michigan) - May 3, 2007: Rouge River
Water Festival
(Dearborn, Michigan) - May 2, 2007:
Saginaw Bay Coastal Initiative Public Meeting on Muck
(Bay City, Michigan) - March 22, 2007: Wisconsin Harmful Algal
Bloom Stakeholder Workshop
KI Convention Center (Green Bay, Wisconsin) - February 28, 2007: Presentation- NOAA’s Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and
Human Health
2007 Indian General Assistance Program Conference (Chicago, Illinois) - February 7, 2007: Ohio Harmful Algal Bloom Focus
Group Workshop
Lake Erie Center-University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) - January 25, 2007: Presentation - Influence of Ecosystem & Anthropogenic Processes
on Water Quality
Antrim County Program Committee (Bellaire, Michigan) - November 30, 2006: Presentation - Effects of environmental stressors on water quality in
Saginaw Bay.
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Save Our Shorelines, and State Senator Jim Barcia (Caseville, Michigan) - November 9, 2006: Presentation - Forecasting Human Health Impacts in the Great Lakes
Friends of the Boyne River Incorporated (Boyne City, Michigan) - November 8, 2006: Presentation - Great Lakes and Human Health
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (Harbor Springs, Michigan) - October 21, 2006: Metropolitan Detroit Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting
Lawrence Tech University (Southfield, Michigan) - October 10, 2006: Beach Management 101 - Training Workshop
Great Lakes Beach Association (Niagara Falls, NY). - September 17, 2006: Paddle by Your Refuge Kayaking Event (Trenton, Michigan)
- September 6, 2006: Presentation - Effects of Environmental Stressors on Water
Quality in Saginaw Bay
Partnership for Saginaw Bay (Bay City, Michigan) - August 17, 2006: Forecasting Water Quality: Overview of the Center of Excellence for
Great Lakes and Human Health
Northeast Michigan Waterworks Association (Saginaw, Michigan) - July 20, 2006: Great Lakes and Human Health- What does this mean for water quality?
Leslie Science Center (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - July 13, 2006: Presentation- Great Lakes and Human Health: An Overview of the
Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health
Clean Water Action Field Staff - June 8, 2006: Presentation- Harmful Algal Blooms and Western Lake Erie
Western Lake Erie Waterkeepers & Lake Erie Center (Toledo, Ohio) - June 3, 2006: Rouge River Day (Detroit, Michigan)
- May 4, 2006: Rouge River Water Festival (Dearborn, Michigan)
- April 22, 2006: Earth Day Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan)