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!
With record water levels in 2019, and spring right around the corner, flooding is top of mind for many. Join the North Central Climate Collaborative for our upcoming webinar where we'll hear from Kevin Low, Service Coordination Hydrologist with NOAA National Weather Service, Missouri Basin River Forecast Center.
Lakebed 2030 is a regional initiative to map the Great Lakes at high-resolution. More specifically, it’s an effort to address the need for high-resolution bathymetry and bathymetry-derived products. The initiative is targeting 2030 as the year when the region will be on track for comprehensive Great Lakes mapping.
Please join a webinar hosted by the Great Lakes HABs Collaborative focusing on increases in tributary technology leading to a smart watershed.
The St. Louis River Summit actively fosters communication, networking and problem-solving on issues affecting the environmental health of the estuary and related community well-being.
This annual conference will address some of the major benefits that the Great Lakes provide as well as challenges that they continually face. Topics include legislative developments with ballast water and invasive species; fish diseases and their impacts on the Great Lakes; reclaiming Detroit's industrial waterfront; forecasting harmful algal blooms (HABs); a sneak preview of a new PBS production on HABs, and other Great Lakes topics.
A Matter of Balance: Conservation Agriculture in Uncertain Times (Bringing Conservation Science to Practices)
The 2020 Great Lakes Day and Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast will be held March 5, 2020, in Washington, D.C. The annual Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast features dialogue on Great Lakes priorities by regional leaders and members of Congress who play a critical role in shaping Great Lakes policies.
A research team from Old Woman Creek Reserve and the University of Toledo developed a Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach to calculate the phosphorus retention capacity of wetlands with limited datasets. In this webinar, the researchers will share key findings, management implications, and more.
The Water Research Foundation is hosting this webcast to provide technical updates and information on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Due to the potential for this disease to spread worldwide, it is important that water sector professionals remain informed regarding ongoing information of this virus and any measures needed to protect both workers and public health in general.
"Inner Space to Outer Space: Great Lakes’ Contribution to Space Exploration & Research" will be presented by State of Michigan Maritime Archaeologist Wayne Lusardi. Mr. Lusardi will highlight an assortment of objects, both human-made and natural, that have fallen from space into the Great Lakes.
Join archaeologists from Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and art instructors from Art in the Loft in an exciting new interactive experience! Participants will learn about historic shipwreck artifacts and then learn the specialized techniques to illustrate them.
The Western Dredging Association 2020 Midwest Chapter Meeting will take place March 24-26, 2020, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Participants and presenters are sought regarding best dredging practices and innovation in the Midwest and beyond.
Please join the Great Lakes HABs Collaborative for a webinar highlighting Lakewide Management under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and lake-by-lake reports on HAB-related issues and research.
This presentation will discuss how Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority uses data from two long-term coastal wetland monitoring programs to set goals and objectives and evaluate project success.
The 15th Annual Lake Erie Conference will have speakers on a variety of topics of interest to Lake Erie stakeholders, including Asian carp, water levels, the growing manure problem in the western basin of Lake Erie, and more.
It is not yet spring and already the five Great Lakes are currently near or exceeding record levels due to an abundance of precipitation, highlighted by rainfall and snow melt. Impacts and challenges to those in and around the basin will be discussed in this webinar.
The Annex 9: Climate Change Impacts Binational Subcommittee under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement invites you to attend a webinar on the Dibaginjigaadeg Anishinaabe Ezhitwaad Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu taking place April 17 at 11:30 AM (EST).
As spring finally begins to appear around the Great Lakes, volunteers are heading out to beaches for a spring cleaning. The Alliance for the Great Lakes’ Adopt-a-Beach program mobilizes thousands of volunteers who give back to their local beaches each year.
The 2020 Great Lakes Water Infrastructure Conference, a first-of-its-kind regional conference hosted by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), will identify the water infrastructure challenges faced by the Great Lakes region and discuss solutions to those challenges.
A webinar hosted by the International Joint Commission (IJC) on high water levels in the Great Lakes will take place on Friday, May 8 at 12:00pm (EDT) in English and at 9:30am (EDT) in French.