The Great Lake Sturgeon

About the Authors

n 187 ABOUT THE AUTHORS About the Authors Brenda Archambo is the founder and president of the Black Lake, Michigan, Chapter of Sturgeon for Tomorrow. Her volunteer leadership established partnerships among the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, stakeholders, and universities to implement research, habitat, conservation, and outreach programs to better understand lake sturgeon reproductive ecology and early life history in order to manage self-sustaining populations of Michigan’s lake sturgeon. Archambo is the recipient of the Michigan Public Service Commission Innovative Spirit Volunteer Service Award , the American Red Cross Everyday Heroes Award , the Michigan United Conservation Clubs Special Conservation Award, and the Huron Pines O. B. Eustis Outstanding Individual Conservationist Award. She is also a graduate of the Straits Area Leadership Forum and Great Lakes Fisheries Leadership Institute. Archambo is also an outreach consultant with the National Wildlife Federation and president of the Cheboygan County Economic Development Corporation. Nancy Auer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and is also the Department Graduate Program Director at Michigan Technological University. She received her BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of 188 n About the Authors Minnesota Duluth, The University of Michigan, and Michigan Technological University, respectively. Nancy began her journey with lake sturgeon in 1987 using a small nongame wildlife grant from the Michigan DNR to study these fish. She fell in love with them when visiting a laboratory rearing young sturgeon at the University of Wisconsin while working on an identification guide to larval fishes of the Great Lakes. Auer has an active research program in the areas of large lake research and restoration of native fish species. She has published in a variety of well-known journals and has authored several book chapters. She enjoys living in the north country, is an avid birder, and has a home on Lake Superior with her husband Martin and two Welsh Corgies, Peanut and Prairie. Edward A. Baker is a Michigan native and was an avid angler while growing up in Grand Haven. However, like most people living in the Great Lakes region, he had no idea what a lake sturgeon was. That changed when he entered college and began studying fisheries science. Baker has been a research biologist with the Michigan DNR working in Marquette after finishing graduate school in 1995 and has been studying lake sturgeon since that time. He has studied lake sturgeon distribution and status in Michigan, early life history, population assessment, restoration, streamside rearing, and population demographics. He has authored or co-authored numerous scientific papers on lake sturgeon and serves on a number of interagency committees and working groups. He has also been actively involved in the drafting of various management plans for lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes region. Dave Dempsey has been an environmental professional since 1982 and is the author or co-author of six previous books, including On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century, which won a Michigan Notable Book Award. He was environmental advisor to Michigan Governor James Blanchard from 1983 to 1989 and served on the Great Lakes Fishery Commission from 1994 to 2001. He has a master’s degree in natural resources policy and law from Michigan State University. He lives in Rosemount, Minnesota. Pierre Dumont first studied biology at the Université de Montréal (1973) and received his MS (1977) and PhD degrees (1996) from Université du Québec à Montréal. He started serving as a fishery biologist in the beginning of the 1970s and was involved in the impact studies of the James Bay hydropower development. He has worked for the Québec government since 1978—mainly in the St. Lawrence River lowlands, the most urbanized part of the province. He is involved in scientific studies on the status and management of lake sturgeon, yellow perch, and American eel, on the long term monitoring of fish communities in the St. Lawrence River, About the Authors n 189 on fish passage and fish habitat improvement, on invasive fish species, and on the recovery of the cooper redhorse, a rare and endangered species endemic to south western Québec. Dumont regularly collaborates with specialists of other national and international organizations of the Great Lakes on water level regulation, fish stocks status and management, and fish passage. He has also been involved in the restoration program of the European sturgeon since 1998, when he had the...