Great Lakes Calendar

The Great Lakes Calendar features events from around the region that may be of interest to Great Lakes stakeholders, with a focus on professional conferences and events relevant to research, science, policy, and education. If you have an event you would like to publicize, please submit it below!

Funding and Financing Coastal Resilience: Revolving Loan Funds

Online

In this webinar, experts with state revolving funds (SRFs) experience, including EPA's long-standing Clean Water Revolving Fund (Alison Souders), FEMA’s new Safeguarding Tomorrow program (Rhiannon Kincaid), and on-the-ground project applications (Michael Roberts), will provide an overview of the process and give examples of how SRF's have been used.

Great Lakes Young Professionals Virtual Mixer

Online

The Great Lakes Young Professionals Network (GLYPN) is hosting a virtual networking mixer on Thursday, June 1 at 6pm CT / 7pm ET. If you are a young professional (or young at heart) and are passionate about the Great Lakes, we hope you’ll join us for this casual evening of conversation and networking.

Adopt-a-Beach

Multiple Locations

Each year, through the Adopt-a-Beach program, thousands of volunteers work to keep the Great Lakes shorelines healthy by removing litter from our beaches and collecting important data.

Society of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting:

Spokane, WA

The Society of Wetland Scientists will convene on June 27-30, 2023 at the Davenport Grand Hotel in Spokane, Washington to discuss this year's topic: Wetland Adaption from Floodplains to Ridgelines.

Lake Erie’s “Pollution Diet”

Online

The Council of the Great Lakes Region will host a webinar on June 29 titled "Lake Erie’s “Pollution Diet” – New Phosphorus Pollution Limits are a Crucial Step Towards the Restoration of Lake Erie’s Western Basin."

Dredging Summit & Expo ’23

Las Vegas, NV

The Dredging Summit & Expo ’23 is a technical conference organized by the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) to promote the exchange of knowledge in fields related to dredging, navigation, marine engineering, and construction.

Student Stewardship: Monitoring Freshwater Acidification

Alpena, MI

Join Michigan Sea Grant Environmental Intern, Madalyn Saddler, as she takes a deep dive into freshwater acidification research, discussing what freshwater acidification is, its relevance to the Great Lakes ecosystem, and how the sanctuary is using the project to connect people to climate change in the Great Lakes.

Great Lakes Watershed Field Course

Suttons Bay, MI

The Great Lakes Watershed Field Course (GLWFC) is a 4-day professional development experience for teachers throughout the Great Lakes region.

American Fisheries Society 153rd Annual Meeting

Grand Rapids, MI

The American Fisheries Society, President April Croxton, and the Michigan Chapter are excited to host the 153rd AFS Annual Meeting, August 20-24, 2023 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Great Lakes Dredging Team Meeting

Sault Ste. Marie, MI

The Great Lakes Dredging Team face-to-face Meeting will take place in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, at the Soo Locks!