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 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.
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.