July 31, 2018
by Katherine Glassner-Shwayder
Comments Off on A message from the Director: Great Lakes research highlighted at the 2018 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress
By Deborah H. Lee, Director, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Recently, I had the opportunity to bring NOAA in the Great Lakes to the 2018 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress. The conference, held in Minneapolis the first week of June, … Continue reading
July 30, 2018
by Katherine Glassner-Shwayder
Comments Off on Photo story: Taking a closer look at how invasive mussels are changing the Great Lakes food web
The invasion of zebra and quagga mussels in the Great Lakes is taking a toll on the ecosystem. To investigate these ecological changes, scientists from GLERL and the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) are doing experimentation on how … Continue reading
July 26, 2018
by Kaye LaFond
Comments Off on Andrea VanderWoude blends science and art to study the Great Lakes from the sky
Andrea VanderWoude is a remote sensing specialist — that means she’s looking at things from far away. Whether she’s studying harmful algal blooms or rip currents, her job is to pull information out of pictures taken from airplanes or satellites. … Continue reading
July 20, 2018
by Katherine Glassner-Shwayder
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To answer questions about organisms and how they interact in the Great Lakes ecosystem, scientists from NOAA GLERL and CIGLR are using a new high tech sampling tool called MOCNESS (Multiple Opening and Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System). Continue reading