Research Award
Recipients
June 26, 2008.
The GSI website now includes a list of research award recipients.
Click here
to view bench-scale award recipients, and here
to view land-based scale award recipients.
Press Release
September
24, 2007. First Test Scheduled at New Ballast Treatment
Facility: Seakleen, a ballast water treatment system marketed
by Hyde Marine, Inc., will be the first system tested at the
GSI's shore-based facility in Superior, WI. (click here
to read the entire press release)
Press Release
August 7,
2007. Visible Progress Toward Battling Invasive Species
in the Great Lakes: Five Applicants Respond to Offer of Ballast
Treatment Testing. (click here
to read the entire press release)
First Solicitation
Operns
July 20, 2007.
The GSI has released a Prototype
Solicitation offering preliminary research
services to qualified developers of treatment systems designed
to minimize the presence of live organisms, including microbes
and viruses, in ballast water discharge from ships of any vessel
class part of or comparable to those in GLSLSS trade. Applications
are due by August 6, 2007. The estimated start date for work
is September 17, 2007.
Public Website
July 3, 2007.
The GSI has launched its public website. Located at the web
address www.greatshipsinitiative.org.
The site will be regularly updated and expanded with GSI news
and information as the Initiative evolves.
Land-Based
High Flow Test Facility
June 28,2007.
The GSI's high-flow Research Development Testing and Evaluation
(RDTE) facility was officially launched at a ceremony in Superior,
WI on June 28, 2007. Click here
for more information about the facility.
Scoping Report
May 2006.
The Northeast-Midwest Institute has released "Great Ships
for the Great Lakes? Commercial Vessels Free Of Invasive Species
in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System. A Scoping Report
for the Great Ships Initiative" (report).