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!
As part of the European Frog-bit Collaborative’s effort to delimit high-risk European frog-bit (EFB) infestations within the Great Lakes region, the Collaborative is hosting a one-hour virtual training session to introduce natural resource managers to a standardized EFB monitoring tool that utilizes an ArcGIS Field Maps platform.
The Great Lakes Stewardship has designed a virtual, four-part series focusing on helping teachers—and their students—communicate effectively about the climate crisis.
Hear the dramatic rescue of the freighter Henry Steinbrenner’s 16 surviving crew and remember a veteran lake boat that has been forgotten by history.
Join us for the next Pennsylvania Lake Erie Environmental Forum on May 16, 2023 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM.
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.
Please plan to join us for the 2023 Great Lakes Commission Semiannual Meeting, currently scheduled to be held May 22-25, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois.
Join the Invasive Mussel Collaborative for a free webinar to explore how invasive mussels impact and are affected by North American ecosystems.
The Great Lakes Fishery Commission will hold a public Annual Meeting May 31 - June 1, 2023, in Traverse City, Michigan.
Join us for a one-hour public webinar, Invasive Species: Lake Huron’s Most Unwanted, as part of our Let’s Talk Lake Huron webinar series!
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.
The 2023 Michigan Climate Summit will take place Friday, June 2, at Oakland University.
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.
Please plan on joining us in Chicago next year as we celebrate our 20th anniversary and chart a path for continued success.
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.
This presentation will explore new technology in robotics and machine learning that can enable automated detection and survey of shipwreck sites.
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."
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.
The Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) presents the Great Lakes Seminar Series - Flying Slime: Lakes, Aerosols, and Harmful Algal Blooms (Andrew Ault).
The Great Lakes Water Quality Board (WQB) of the International Joint Commission (IJC) is hosting a virtual public meeting on July 27, 2023.
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.