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!
The Great Lakes Fishery Commission is pleased to invite you to participate in the 2023 Lakes Committee Meetings. Please note that the Upper and Lower Lakes meetings will be held separately this year. The Upper Lakes Committee Meeting will be held March 21-24, 2023, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
Recent research from across the Midwest shows that with drainage water management, which uses tile drainage to control and adjust water flow from fields, annual nitrogen loads in field runoff can be reduced by as much as 50% while increasing crop yields. A similar result might be possible for phosphorus, with can fuel harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie.