Matt Herbert

Senior Conservation Scientist, Michigan

Lansing, MI

Matt Herbert Matt Herbert is a senior conservation scientist in Michigan. © Laura Henschke

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aquatic ecology, Great Lakes, sustainable fisheries

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Biography

Matt joined The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in January of 2007 and currently serves as a senior conservation scientist and aquatic ecologist. As the Great Lakes Sustainable Fisheries lead for Michigan, he leads a strategy and several projects to restore ciscoes and whitefish in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron to benefit Great Lakes food webs and fisheries. These projects are in collaboration with state and tribal partners who manage Great Lakes fisheries as well as other TNC Great Lakes business units, federal agencies and university partners. Matt has also worked to prioritize Great Lakes tributaries for river-spawning migratory fish conservation, to develop tools to identify where and which agricultural conservation practices will provide the best ecological benefits, and to develop restoration strategies for Great Lakes coastal wetlands.

Before joining TNC, Matt spent more than three years at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Prior to moving to Michigan, he worked in Illinois as an aquatic ecologist with TNC for four years. He has a B.S. from Iowa State University and an M.S. from Texas A&M University. Matt lives in Shepherd with his wife,Tracy (also an aquatic ecologist), and their children Megan and Leo. He enjoys spending time with family enjoying the outdoors, hiking, kayaking, fishing, gardening and reading.

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November 2022

Under the Surface: Restoring Reefs in the Great Lakes

You might think we know everything there is to know about our Great Lakes—a focus of science and management for many years—but we still have a lot to learn. Especially underneath the surface. This is the case for Great Lakes reefs.

When most people picture reefs, they picture coral reefs in tropical areas. But a reef is just a feature of rock, coral or sand that rises from the sea/lake bottom toward the water’s surface. In the Great Lakes, reefs are usually large piles of rock or gravel (or a mixture of those and other materials) deposited by glaciers—the same glacial deposit found in landforms that occur across our local landscapes, like moraines or eskers.

Most reefs are relatively small, but they have a disproportionate influence on the Great Lakes. Highly productive reefs can produce tens of millions of fish that can make up major portions of a population within large areas of a given Great Lake. Many of the most important Great Lakes fishes, including lake whitefish, walleye, perch and lake trout, use reefs for spawning.

An underwater view of a cobble reef habitat that slopes down to the right until it flattens out along the bottom of a green lake. — **Cobble habitat of a Lake Michigan reef** Reefs can be dominated by boulders, cobble or gravel—or any combination of these. These glacial materials can be over a sand or mud bottom or on top of clay or bedrock. They can be in a bay or open waters and vary by depth. And they are exposed to different underwater currents and wave action. © Randy Claramunt, Michigan DNR

Why Are Reefs Important for the Great Lakes?

Many reefs have been degraded by excessive sediment from rivers or coastal erosion, dredging or navigation, excessive growth of filamentous algae due to high nutrients, or a wide variety of impacts from invasive species, including habitat degradation due to quagga mussel infestation and egg predation by dense populations of invasive round goby or rusty crayfish.

Past research on reefs has helped us to understand how important reefs are for fish production and some of the reef conditions that help drive that production. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has participated in some of this work in our Lake Michigan project partnership with Michigan DNR and Central Michigan University. As part of that effort, we rehabilitated a reef in Grand Traverse Bay and have worked to develop and test techniques to control invasive egg predators on reefs.

A Great Lakes Reef Restoration (8:07) Three species, 450 tons of rocks and one chance for a comeback. Watch our award-winning video to learn how The Nature Conservancy and its partners are working to restore spawning habitat for Great Lakes fish.

How Much Do We Know About Great Lakes Reefs?

While this work has helped us to understand the importance of reefs and healthy reef conditions, most reef research has been conducted on a small number of reefs scattered around the Great Lakes. We know a lot about a handful of reefs but surprisingly little about most. In fact, most reefs have never been explored by natural resource researchers or managers. So, we don’t know the basic characteristics of these reefs, what condition they are in or what species are using them.

…we know a lot about a handful of reefs but surprisingly little about most.

Matt Herbert, Senior Conservation Scientist

For a long time, many Great Lakes habitats were generally “out of sight, out of mind.” Many reefs can be hard to get to, and underwater habitats are difficult to assess without divers or a lot of technology. Improvements in technology and diving capacity are increasing among Great Lakes agency scientists. TNC now has a Great Lakes dive team focused on reef assessment.

A TNC diver examines a reef at the bottom of Lake Michigan. The water is clear and the bottom visible for a few feet. — **Diving in the Great Lakes** As diving capacity increases among Great Lakes scientists, there are more opportunities to learn about reefs and restoration needs. © Jason Whalen/Fauna Creative

Because of the reef research done around the Great Lakes in recent years, there is growing recognition of the importance of healthy reef habitats and increasing interest in reef restoration.

Anglers love the restored reef in Elk Rapids, and many want similar projects elsewhere. However, because we don’t know the status and condition of most reefs and which ones are already working well for fish production, we don’t know where the restoration needs and opportunities are.

More information is needed before even considering reef rehabilitation work—we have to ensure we are providing benefits and, most importantly, that we don’t harm the functioning habitat.

Map outlines Great Lakes reef locations per GLAHF. Yellow dots indicate where reefs are located along the shores of the Great Lakes. — **Great Lakes Reef Locations** Great Lakes reef locations based on data from the GLAHF. These reef locations are largely available through historic navigation charts. Most have never been assessed by natural resource researchers or managers, so little to no habitat information exists.

How Can We Better Understand the Status and Condition of Great Lakes Reefs?

We are working with project partners from the Michigan DNR, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Central Michigan University to assess reefs in Lake Michigan. Starting with the existing Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) reef layer, we use navigation charts and other available information to identify additional reefs and to create maps of their likely footprint.

Our project partners at USGS conduct multi-beam sonar at each reef, which results in a detailed map of elevations across each site. We use underwater drop cameras to take hundreds of photos along a grid across each reef. From those images, we can identify the bottom material (e.g., cobble, boulder, gravel, sand, etc.) across the reef, how deep the rock layer is (important for understanding spaces for fish eggs to hide during incubation) and the area covered by filamentous algae and quagga mussels.

Divers on our team then collect additional detailed information on the composition of the bottom, conduct counts of native and invasive crayfish hiding within the rocks, measure quagga mussel densities and the height of filamentous algae and collect invertebrate samples to be processed in the lab.

View looking down into green water with reef habitat with large cobbles embedded in sand and dead mussel shells, with dense clusters of quagga mussels along the margins and several round goby. — **Great Lakes Reef Habitat** This reef habitat features large cobbles embedded in sand and dead mussel shells. Since the rocks are embedded in the sand, there are not multiple layers of rocks with spaces for eggs to incubate (and be protected from wave action or predation). © Jason Whalen/Fauna Creative

The work described above occurs during summer and early fall. We return to these reefs in November and December to determine whether reefs are being used for spawning by lake trout, lake whitefish and cisco. We return again in the spring to sample for young larval fish of these same species that have just emerged from the reef from hatched eggs.

This need for reef assessment isn’t novel to Lake Michigan. TNC is involved in very similar projects in Green Bay and Lake Erie. We have been hosting coordination calls for all the partners associated with each project to promote information sharing and to ensure that the results from these different reef assessments are comparable.

Assessments aren’t occurring everywhere in the Great Lakes. Each one requires a time commitment with multiple visits at different times of the year. Even for the geographies we are working on, we won’t be able to map and characterize every reef with this initial effort. However, we will have information on enough reefs to draw better generalizations about likely reef characteristics and conditions based on factors such as geology, depth and exposure to wave action. We are confident these assessments will be valuable enough to inform restoration and protection needs as well as encourage future efforts to complete the assessment of reefs across the Great Lakes.

People who live in the region love the Great Lakes. As awareness and interest continue to grow, reefs are becoming less "out of mind," which is important for the future of the Great Lakes and its fisheries.

Vinson, M., M. Herbert, A. Ackiss, J. Dobosenski, L.M. Evrard, O. Gorman, J.D. Lyons, S.B. Phillips, D.L. Yule. 2022. Lake Superior Kiyi (Coregonus kiyi) reproductive biology. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (In Press). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10389

Paufve, M.R., S.A. Sethi, B.C. Weidel, B.F. Lantry, D.L. Yule, L.G. Rudstam, J.L. Jonas, E. Berglund, M.J. Connerton, D. Gorsky, M.E. Herbert, J. Smith. 2021. Diversity in spawning habitat use among Great Lakes Cisco populations. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 31:379-388.

Kvistad, J.T., J.T. Buckley, K.M. Robinson, T.L. Galarowicz, R.M. Claramunt, D.F. Clapp, P. O’Neill, W.L. Chadderton, A.J. Tucker, M. Herbert. 2021. Size segregation and seasonal patterns in rusty crayfish Faxonius rusticus distribution and abundance on northern Lake Michigan spawning reefs. Journal of Great Lakes Research 47:1050-1064. Available at: Size-segregation-and-seasonal-patterns-in-rusty-crayfish-Faxonius-rusticus-distribution-and-abundance-on-northern-Lake-Michigan-spawning-reefs.pdf (researchgate.net)

Fitzpatrick, K.B., A.T. Moody, A. Milt, M.E. Herbert, M. Khoury, E. Yacobson, J.A. Ross, P.J. Doran, M.C. Ferris, P.B. McIntyre, T.M. Neeson. 2021. Can indicator species guide conservation investments to restore connectivity in Great Lakes tributaries? Biodiversity and Conservation 30:165-182.

Claramunt, R.M., J. Smith, K. Donner, A. Povolo, M.E. Herbert, T. Galarowicz, T.L. Claramunt, S. DeBoe, W. Stott, J.L. Jonas. 2019. Resurgence of Cisco (Coregonus artedi) in Lake Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research 45:821-829.

Milt, A.W., M.W. Diebel, P.J. Doran, M.C. Ferris, M. Herbert, M.L. Khoury, A.T. Moody, T.M. Neeson, J. Ross, T. Treska, J.R. O’Hanley, L. Walter, S.R. Wangen, E. Yacobson, P.B. McIntyre. 2018. Minimizing opportunity costs to aquatic connectivity restoration while controlling invasive species. Conservation Biology 32:894-904.

Moody, A.T., T.M. Neeson, S. Wangen, J. Dischler, M.W. Diebel, M. Herbert, M. Khoury, E. Yacobson, P.J. Doran, M.C. Ferris, J.R. O’Hanley, P.B. McIntyre. 2017. Pet project or best project? Online decision support tools for prioritizing barrier removals in the Great Lakes and beyond. Fisheries 42:57-65.

Fales, M., R. Dell, M.E. Herbert. S.P. Sowa, J. Asher, G. O’Neil, P.J. Doran, B. Wickerham. 2016. Making the leap from science to implementation: Strategic agricultural conservation in Michigan's Saginaw Bay watershed. Journal of Great Lakes Research 42:1372-1385. Available at: Making the leap from science to implementation: Strategic agricultural conservation in Michigan's Saginaw Bay watershed—ScienceDirect

Sowa, S.P., Herbert, M., Mysorekar, S., Annis, G., Hall, K., Nejadhashemi, A.P., Woznicki, S.A., Wang L., Doran, P., 2016. How much conservation is enough? Defining implementation goals for healthy fish communities. Journal of Great Lakes Research 42:1302-1321. Available at: How much conservation is enough? Defining implementation goals for healthy fish communities in agricultural rivers—ScienceDirect

Herbert, M.E., P.B. McIntyre, P. Doran, J.D. Allan, and R. Abell. 2010. Terrestrial reserve networks do not adequately represent aquatic ecosystems. Conservation Biology 24:1002-1011. Available at: deepblue.lib.umich

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