NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Blog

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June 22, 2021
by Gabrielle Farina
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New wave buoy will provide data to support wave and flood forecasting on Lake Champlain

The NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) and partners recently deployed a buoy in Lake Champlain that will measure the lake’s wave heights to assess the accuracy of a new experimental model for the lake. This is part of … Continue reading

May 22, 2018
by Kaye LaFond
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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