March 4, 2019
by Nicole Rice
Comments Off on NOAA and partners team up to prevent future Great Lakes drinking water crisis
A new video SMART BUOYS: Preventing a Great Lakes Drinking Water Crisis released by Ocean Conservancy describes how NOAA forecast models provide advance warnings to Lake Erie drinking water plant managers to avoid shutdowns due to poor water quality. An … Continue reading
December 6, 2018
by Kaye LaFond
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If you live in the Great Lakes basin and have been on or even near a road recently, you might be feeling unreasonably ragey at the mere mention of lake effect snow. We get it. But bear with us, because … Continue reading
December 3, 2018
by Nicole Rice
Comments Off on The HAB season is over, but the work goes on
It’s nearly winter here in the Great Lakes—our buoys are in the warehouse, our boats are making their way onto dry land, and folks in the lab are working hard to assess observed data, experiments, and other results from this … Continue reading
October 2, 2018
by Nicole Rice
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A team of researchers from across the country teamed up over the summer. Their mission: to test how well a third-generation environmental sample processor (3GESP), mounted inside a long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (LRAUV), can track and analyze toxic algae in the Western Basin of Lake Erie. 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
May 22, 2018
by Kaye LaFond
Comments Off on GLERL Ocean(lake)ographer Eric Anderson on watching the Straits of Mackinac
Eric Anderson is NOAA GLERL’s resident oceanographer (but his Twitter handle is @lakeographer—you should trademark that one, Eric). At its core, his research centers around the movement of water. You might have seen our animations of currents in the Straits … Continue reading
January 18, 2018
by Nicole Rice
Comments Off on Great Lakes in winter: Water levels and ice cover
The Great Lakes, along with their connecting waterways and watersheds, make up the largest lake system on the planet—more than 20% of the world’s surface freshwater! Water levels on the lakes change in response to a number of factors, and these … Continue reading
November 15, 2017
by Katherine Glassner-Shwayder
Comments Off on New algorithm to map Great Lakes ice cover
NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) is on the cutting edge of using satellite remote sensing to monitor different types of ice as well as the ice cover extent. To make this possible, an algorithm—a mathematical calculation developed at GLERL … Continue reading
June 28, 2017
by Katherine Glassner-Shwayder
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Researchers partner with drinking water plant managers to forecast hypoxia in Lake Erie By Devin Gill, Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research and Kristin Schrader, Great Lakes Observation Systems Lake Erie’s “dead zone” not only impacts the lake’s ecosystem, but … Continue reading