GSI Outreach Documents
GSI Technical Documents
GSI Reports & Background Documents
Guidelines, Laws & Regulations

GSI Outreach Documents:

GSI Two-Page Summary

GSI Technical Documents:

GSI objectives by research scale

Preliminary GSI protocols (link to webpage)

Comparison of shipboard test parameters for ballast water treatment biological performance evaluations

Comparison of land-based test parameters for ballast water treatment biological performance evaluations

Comparison of Bench-scale Test Parameters for Ballast Water Treatment Biological Performance Evaluation
     - Dose range/effectiveness
     - Residual toxicity
     - Mechanism verification

GSI Reports and Background Documents:

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 - Allegra Cangelosi & Nicole Mays, May 2006.

The Response of Zooplankton and Phytoplankton from the North American Great Lakes to Filtration - Cangelosi AA, Mays NL, Balcer MD, Reavie ED, Reid DM, Sturtevant R & Gao X (2007). Harmful Algae 6 iv: 547-566. (copies available on request)

Summary and Findings of the Ballast Discharge Monitoring Device Workshop - Allegra Cangelosi & Nicole Mays. International Ballast Discharge Monitoring Device Workshop, Marrowstone Island Marine Field Station, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, August 12-16, 2002. Report released March 7, 2005.

Filtration as a Ballast Water Treatment Measure - Allegra Cangelosi (2002). In: Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe. Distribution, Impacts and Management (E Leppakoski, S Gollasch & S Olenin, eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London (copies available on request)

Ballast Water Treatment Technology: Current Status - Lloyd’s Register (2007). Lloyd’s Register, London, England.

Guidelines, Laws & Regulations:

IMO Guidelines for Approval of Ballast Water Management Systems (G8)

Draft ETV Protocol for Ballast Water Treatment Technologies

Canadian Shipping Act, Ballast Water Control and Management Regulations (2006)

National Invasive Species Act of 1996 (NISA)

Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (NANPCA)