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793 Contributors Ted Batterson is a professor emeritus in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. Prior to his retirement on January 1, 2012, he had taught for over two decades an undergraduate course he had developed on the Great Lakes. He had also been involved with the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture-funded North Central Regional Aquaculture Center since its inception in 1988, first serving as the center’s assistant director and then from 1991 as its director, up until his retirement. Satyendra P. Bhavsar is a Research Scientist with the Sport Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Adjunct Professor at Universities of Toronto and Windsor. Dr. Bhavsar is a Professional Engineer, and his research focuses on studying contaminant fate-transport, food web dynamics and exposure to humans through fish consumption. The overarching goal of his work is to guide policies and management actions regarding contaminants in environment, in general, and for safe human consumption of fish, in specific. Travis O. Brenden received a B.S. in Biological Sciences from South Dakota State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Fisheries Science (M.S., Ph.D.) and Statistics (M.S.) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is currently the Associate Director of the Quantitative Fisheries Center at Michigan State University and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, where he conducts and directs research in the areas of fish population dynamics and modeling. Russell W. Brown earned a B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife from Cornell University and an M.S. in Fishery Science and a Ph.D. in Fisheries Science and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Michigan State University. He has focused on the stock assessment and fishery independent surveys of commercially important fish and invertebrate species in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean since 1994. CONTRIBUTORS 794 DavidF.Clapp is a Research Biologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and manager of the Department’s Charlevoix Fisheries Research Station on Lake Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1986 and his Masters degree in 1988 from the University of Michigan. David has worked at the Charlevoix Station for the past fifteen years and has been directly involved in fisheries research for more than twenty-five years. He currently serves as one of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources representatives to the Lake Michigan Technical Committee. Randall M. Claramunt is a Research Biologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. He earned his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in 1994 and his Masters degree in Aquatic Ecology from the University of Illinois in 1998. He has worked on the Great Lakes for more than twelve years, during which his research focus has been on the management of salmonines in the Great Lakes. He currently serves as chair of the Salmonid Working Group to the Lake Michigan Technical Committee. Andrew Cook completed his B.S. degree in Fisheries Science at the University of Guelph in 1990. He participated in fisheries projects in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Lake Ontario and tributaries and is currently an Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Fisheries Assessment Biologist on Lake Erie. He is a member of Lake Erie Yellow Perch, Walleye, and Coldwater Task Groups. Arthur Cooper is a graduate student and research assistant in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. His research focuses on the quantification of human alterations to river systems using GIS. BeckyCudmore is currently a Senior Science Advisor on aquatic invasive species for the Central and Arctic Region of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Burlington, Ontario. Becky works on Great Lakes and national aquatic invasive species issues. She studied at Trent University, and the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. E.J. Crossman. Richard Drouin has Biology and Ecology & Evolution degrees from the University of Western Ontario. As an employee of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, he has been actively involved in resource management for the past twelve years. MarkP.EbenerhasservedasaFisheryAssessmentBiologistfortheChippewaOttawaResourcesAuthority and Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission since 1981. He is responsible for monitoring the status of fish populations important to Native American commercial fisheries in the 1836 ceded waters of Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan. Tomas H. Eckert was a Senior Aquatic Biologist with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Lake Ontario Unit at the Cape Vincent Fisheries Station (ret.), where his entire career was dedicated to...