International Association for Great Lakes Research
Overview
Live Site
https://iaglr.org/Client Since
January 2021
International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR), the only association of its kind, is dedicated to the promotion and sharing of multidisciplinary research on North America’s Laurentian Great Lakes and other large lakes around the world. This community of people devoted to understanding these large lake ecosystems receive several benefits, while showing their support for large lake science.
Hop Studios has worked with IAGLR in a number of areas, but most significantly, we revamped and relaunched the IAGLR member directory, a networking and community building tool serving IAGLR members and administrators.
Services Provided
In 2023, Hop Studios launched the revamped International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Member Directory. Access to this searchable directory is a major benefit of becoming an IAGLR member.
Members can manage their own detailed directory profile — contact information, expert status, waterbody and research interests, bio, links, and more. They can also manage their IAGLR membership itself, including online renewal of their annual membership.
New to the re-launched directory is an optional demographics section that allows the association to compile an aggregate view of member demographics.
IAGLR members who choose to display their profile in the directory can search the directory by name, research interest, location, and more. Members can even build a custom search query by combining search parameters defined by the profile fields and membership data.
Behind the scenes, IAGLR admins and board members have quick access to yearly reports showing membership type, journal subscriptions, geography, research and waterbody interests, and demographics. Admins can track recent profile edits, download records for offline use, and create announcements, all with custom access levels for security and ease of use.
IAGLR was already running their website using ExpressionEngine (EE), a CMS we have long used to build websites with advanced custom functionality.
Using EE itself as a fantastic base, Hop Studios built a custom set of utilities that, among other things, link PayPal’s arcane and quirky subscriptions API with the CartThrob e-commerce solution for ExpressionEngine.
This allows IAGLR members to subscribe and turn off auto-renewing membership subscriptions right from the directory. Our custom utility add-on is packed with bespoke functionality specific to IAGLR’s needs, linking ExpressionEngine, CartThrob, EE Harbor’s Visitor, and PayPal Subscriptions, keeping subscription statuses and member information in sync.
