Great Lakes Calendar

Join a team to search sites on the Rouge River for sensitive aquatic insects.

The 2020 Ludington Regional Fishery Workshop will include presentations from biologists, educators, and fishery managers with Michigan DNR, NOAA/GLERL, MSU and Michigan Sea Grant. Topics will include salmon and trout diets, the impact of quagga mussels on Lake Michigan, and water level expectations for 2020 in addition to updates on stocking levels and other fishery management issues.

U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development, Region 7 and the University of Kansas Edwards Campus are co-hosting a workshop exploring issues and solutions surrounding harmful algal blooms in waterbodies within the Midwest and Great Plains. The workshop will include participation from states, tribes and other agencies within U.S. EPA Regions 5, 7 and 8.

Tune in on Wednesday, February 12th for the next edition of the The Current, where we will hear from the Network’s youth water education team who will summarize the results of their recently conducted needs assessment.

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to a briefing on the actions being taken to manage increasing temperatures, flooding, and other coastal hazards impacting communities and ecosystems in the Great Lakes region.

Wisconsin Wetland Association’s 25th annual Wetland Science Conference will be held February 18-20, 2020, at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, WI. 

Lieutenant (junior grade) Hunter Brendel will speak about the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, the nation's smallest uniformed service comprised of 321 officers. NOAA Corps operates NOAA's fleet of 16 ships and nine aircraft that conduct scientific operations throughout the United States and internationally.

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)

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.