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!
Although the Society of Canadian Limnologists and the Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research have had joint-annual conferences since 1979, the meeting in 2023 marks our first official conference as the new Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences (SCAS).
Dr. Angelica Vazquez Ortega at Bowling Green State University is examining whether integrating dredged sediments from Ohio harbors into farm soil could improve corn crop yields and overall soil health while also keeping those sediments out of land-based containment areas.
The 33rd Annual Great Lakes conference will be held virtually on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, beginning at 9:30am. The free conference will feature two themes with three presentations per theme as well as a panel discussion with Q/A from participants. The themes are Fisheries Management in the Great Lakes and Great Lakes Islands.
Please plan to join us for Great Lakes Day 2023 in Washington, D.C., featuring the annual Great Lakes Day Congressional Breakfast Reception!
Attendees at the 2023 Michigan Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society March 10 conference will discover practical and sustainable ways to manage the rural landscape.
Please join us March 16, 2023 for an informational webinar covering regional sediment management tool updates, small harbor dredge management, the dredged material management decision support tool, and water depth reference system changes.
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.
The online session will offer legal, scientific, economic, and political perspectives on the urgent need and critical opportunity for Michigan to finally join the rest of the nation in adopting a law to protect public health and fresh water from septic pollution.
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.
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 Lower Lakes Committee Meeting will be held March 28-30, 2023, in Hamilton, Ontario.
Join the Alliance for the Great Lakes for our 2023 Adopt-a-Beach season Spring Kickoff April 21st-23rd!
Join us for a one-hour public webinar as part of our Let’s Talk Lake Superior webinar series!
On Ohio’s Lake Erie coast, environmental conditions, economic climate and individual angler behaviors may all change over time. These changes could impact the charter fishing industry.
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Save the date for IAGLR’s 66th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research" May 7-12, 2023, in Toronto, Ontario.
Great Lakes Observing System (glos.org) staff will provide an in-depth look into Seagull (seagull.glos.org) functionalities from high to low-level, with demonstrated use cases.
Registration is now open for the GLOS 2023 annual meeting and Seagull workshop.
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.