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SUMMARY:PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week
DESCRIPTION:Join us for PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week\, taking place June 7–14\, 2025\, across North America! The North American Invasive Species Management Association (NAISMA) invites outdoor enthusiasts\, land managers\, and recreation partners across the U.S.\, Canada\, and Mexico to take part in this annual campaign\, which empowers everyone who enjoys the outdoors to take simple\, effective actions to prevent the spread of invasive species—and protect the places we love. \n\n\n\nThis year’s theme\, “Partnering Together to Protect Our Favorite Places\,” underscores the importance of collaboration in safeguarding trails\, parks\, waterways\, and wildlands. Through a unified North American effort—co-hosted with our PlayCleanGo® partners in Canada and Mexico\, including Invasives Canada and CONABIO—this campaign highlights how collective action can lead to meaningful change across borders. \n\n\n\nThroughout the week\, we’ll be sharing inspiring stories\, helpful tips\, and outreach from individuals and organizations who are taking steps to “PlayCleanGo” in their everyday adventures. Our 2025 taglines—“Together we can prevent the spread of invasive species” and “All of us can protect our favorite places”—remind us that everyone has a role to play. \n\n\n\nHow to Get Involved: \n\n\n\n\nPartner with us to reach the outdoor recreation community through local events\, videos\, social media\, and media outreach.\n\n\n\nAdd your events to our PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week calendar!\n\n\n\nExplore partnership opportunities to support prevention-focused outreach.\n\n\n\nUse hashtags #PlayCleanGoWeek and #PlayCleanGo in your outreach and posts.\n\n\n\nTag PlayCleanGo® so we can help amplify your efforts:\n\n@PlayCleanGo on Facebook and Twitter\n\n\n\n@Play.Clean.Go on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\nShare your story PlayCleanGo® story with us by uploading a photo at:playcleango.org/take-action/photo-release-form\n\n\n\n\nDozens of free outreach materials are available at PlayCleanGo.org\, including graphics\, messaging templates\, and multilingual resources. Download the PlayCleanGo® Starter Kit to help promote this important campaign and encourage your community to Stop Invasive Species In Your Tracks™!
URL:https://naisma.org/event/playcleango-awareness-week-2/
CATEGORIES:In-Person,PlayCleanGo®
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Invasive Freshwater Jellyfish (Craspedacusta sowerbii) in North American lakes
DESCRIPTION:Many people have recently noticed small jellyfish floating around in summer in lakes. These are mostly a single invasive species known officially as Craspedacusta sowerbii or sometimes as the Peach-blossom jellyfish. If you have noticed them\, you may think you are seeing things\, but they are probably real. I will discuss what we know about this invasive species in North American lakes and why they are being noticed more and more often. While scientists still have a lot to learn about these organisms\, I will discuss in this webinar the knowledge we currently have\, providing some insight into their life histories and ecology\, as well as how they might be affecting food webs in our lakes. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Beatrix Beisner is Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Québec at Montréal (UQAM). Completing her PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2000\, she has over 30 years of experience in limnology. Her research interests are focused on lake ecology\, plankton community dynamics\, spatial ecology\, functional traits and biodiversity. She works with both phytoplankton and zooplankton communities in freshwater habitats using empirical\, experimental\, and modelling approaches. Dr. Beisner is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Plankton Research (Oxford University Press) and she was Director/Co-Director of the Interuniversity Research Group in Limnology in Québec (GRIL) from 2015 to March 2025. She has co-edited 3 books and has published over 130 journal articles. In 2023 she was the recipient of the Frank Rigler Award\, the highest honour in her field from the Society for Canadian Aquatic Sciences. \n\n\n\nORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6972-6887
URL:https://naisma.org/event/webinar-invasive-freshwater-jellyfish-craspedacusta-sowerbii-in-north-american-lakes/
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