NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Blog

The latest news and information about NOAA research in and around the Great Lakes

December 3, 2018
by Nicole Rice
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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

July 20, 2018
by Katherine Glassner-Shwayder
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Casting a high tech sampling net to learn more about the Great Lakes ecosystem

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

November 8, 2017
by Katherine Glassner-Shwayder
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Embracing Collaboration and Partnerships: A Way of Life at GLERL

The science community in the Great Lakes region holds a long history of partnership building, extending across jurisdictional, institutional, and disciplinary lines. These partnerships have been evolving in the region for decades as a means to leverage the intellectual capital … Continue reading