News & Events
Information about future news and events surrounding European frog-bit can be found below. To see events, view our calendar below. Want the latest EFB news? Sign up for our quarterly newsletter, the Frog-bit Forum!
Social Event at UMISC!
September 10, 2026
The Frog-bit Forum is a quarterly newsletter designed to deliver the most recent European frog-bit (EFB) related news, publications, and updates to your inbox four times a year. Check out our spring 2025 newsletter summary.
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EFB Social Media Blitz Event!
September 10, 2026
The Frog-bit Forum is a quarterly newsletter designed to deliver the most recent European frog-bit (EFB) related news, publications, and updates to your inbox four times a year. Check out our spring 2025 newsletter summary.
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Frog-bit Forum: April-June 2026
September 10, 2026
The Frog-bit Forum is a quarterly newsletter designed to deliver the most recent European frog-bit (EFB) related news, publications, and updates to your inbox four times a year. Check out our spring 2025 newsletter summary.
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Frog-bit Forum: January-March 2026
September 10, 2026
The Frog-bit Forum is a quarterly newsletter designed to deliver the most recent European frog-bit (EFB) related news, publications, and updates to your inbox four times a year. Check out our spring 2025 newsletter summary.
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Frog-bit Forum: October-December 2025
September 10, 2026
The Frog-bit Forum is a quarterly newsletter designed to deliver the most recent European frog-bit (EFB) related news, publications, and updates to your inbox four times a year. Check out our spring 2025 newsletter summary.
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Frog-bit Forum: July – Sept 2025
September 10, 2026
The Frog-bit Forum is a quarterly newsletter designed to deliver the most recent European frog-bit (EFB) related news, publications, and updates to your inbox four times a year. Check out our spring 2025 newsletter summary.
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Webinar: EFB Collaborative Frog-BATT Training
September 10, 2026
This presentation will describe how drone-enabled sensing of European frog-bit and other invasive aquatic plants can help with identifying the presence and extent of these non-native taxa in the Great Lakes region. This project is being led by the Great Lakes Commission, in collaboration with research scientists from the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI), who have been working with drones since 2011 for a variety of applications. Based on field data collected in 2024 in Ohio, we will show how natural color and multispectral drone imaging, when combined with appropriate image analysis tools, can create useful, high accuracy maps of European frog-bit and other invasive aquatic plants of concern to the region. Results so far will be shown for two Ohio sites with European frog-bit, and the analysis methods based on ArcGIS will be described.
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Webinar: Investigating the habitat suitability of European frog-bit in the upper Great Lakes.
September 12, 2025
This presentation will describe how drone-enabled sensing of European frog-bit and other invasive aquatic plants can help with identifying the presence and extent of these non-native taxa in the Great Lakes region. This project is being led by the Great Lakes Commission, in collaboration with research scientists from the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI), who have been working with drones since 2011 for a variety of applications. Based on field data collected in 2024 in Ohio, we will show how natural color and multispectral drone imaging, when combined with appropriate image analysis tools, can create useful, high accuracy maps of European frog-bit and other invasive aquatic plants of concern to the region. Results so far will be shown for two Ohio sites with European frog-bit, and the analysis methods based on ArcGIS will be described.
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Frog-bit Forum: April-June 2025
August 14, 2025
The Frog-bit Forum is a quarterly newsletter designed to deliver the most recent European frog-bit (EFB) related news, publications, and updates to your inbox four times a year. Check out our spring 2025 newsletter summary.
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Webinar: Demonstration of high-resolution drone-enabled mapping of European frog-bit and other invasive aquatic plants in the Great Lakes region
May 28, 2025
This presentation will describe how drone-enabled sensing of European frog-bit and other invasive aquatic plants can help with identifying the presence and extent of these non-native taxa in the Great Lakes region. This project is being led by the Great Lakes Commission, in collaboration with research scientists from the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI), who have been working with drones since 2011 for a variety of applications. Based on field data collected in 2024 in Ohio, we will show how natural color and multispectral drone imaging, when combined with appropriate image analysis tools, can create useful, high accuracy maps of European frog-bit and other invasive aquatic plants of concern to the region. Results so far will be shown for two Ohio sites with European frog-bit, and the analysis methods based on ArcGIS will be described.