About Us
Traverse City, Michigan, site of GLEC headquarters
(GLEC) is an established national leader in applied environmental sciences, research, development, and compliance assistance. GLEC has grown steadily over 26 years, delivering services and solutions to government and commercial clients throughout North America. The dedicated employee-owners at GLEC often set the standard in their respective fields by consistently applying our core philosophies of corporate responsibility, environmental stewardship, scientific excellence, and dedication to fulfilling client needs. Our unique experience serving both regulatory agencies and the regulated community translates into viable, insightful, and creative solutions to complex environmental challenges.
GLEC has diverse capabilities focused on technical assistance, environmental problem solving and compliance assistance in the areas of aquatic/sediment toxicology, non-point source pollution evaluation, environmental chemistry, ecological risk assessment, bioconcentration/bioaccumulation, water quality/bioaccumulation modeling environmental assessment and analysis, regulatory services and environmental surveys.
Originally formed in 1982 as the Water Quality Division of Battelle Memorial Institute, GLEC was purchased by its employees in 1992. GLEC currently employs some 55 associates in our Michigan and Ohio laboratories along with individual staff in Wisconsin, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Florida. GLEC associates hold academic degrees in many fields, including biology, chemistry, aquatic toxicology, engineering, entomology, fisheries biology, environmental sciences, geology, statistics, economics, and business. The average individual experience level is 15 years with some senior researchers having over 35 years experience. Almost half of our associates hold post-graduate degrees and are widely published in their respective fields.
GLEC toxicology and environmental chemistry labs occupy over 7,500 sq.ft. and are equipped with the latest analytical equipment. Our aquatic toxicology laboratories are fully equipped to perform static and flow-through toxicity evaluations of whole sediment, sediment elutriate, sediment pore-water and sediment/tissue chemistry. Additional modular space is available to clients for specialized research experiments or project materials. GLEC owns and operates an extensive list of field survey equipment, including electrofishing boats, sediment core samplers, Hydrolabs, and survey devices.
Great Lakes Environmental Center, Inc. is incorporated in the State of Michigan.
For general inquiries contact Kim Bell, Coordinator Administrative Services. For business development inquiries, contact Bill Arnold, Coordinator GIS & Business Development.
