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 lake committees are composed of representatives from the state, tribal and provincial agencies that are responsible for day-to-day fishery management on the lakes. They hold annual public meetings each March to review progress toward fishery objectives on each of the Great Lakes, as well as a common session to discuss topics of interest to the entire basin.
Are you interested in volunteering with Inland Seas Education Association? Join us for our Volunteer Open House on March 18th from 4-6 pm!
For nearly 30 years, Dianna Stampfler – an author, freelance writer, and armchair historian – has been researching lighthouses around her home state of Michigan.
Join CIGLR in Ann Arbor or online for a seminar on "The promises and perils of research in solving sustainability problems."
The Great Lakes Fishery Commission lake committees are composed of representatives from the state, tribal and provincial agencies that are responsible for day-to-day fishery management on the lakes. They hold annual public meetings each March to review progress toward fishery objectives on each of the Great Lakes, as well as a common session to discuss topics of interest to the entire basin.
The Interagency Ecological Restoration Quality Committee March webinar will be presented by Brian Majka of GEI.
Minnesota Sea Grant is leading the 2025 Sea Grant Great Lakes BioBlitz, which will be kicked off with a webinar on April 9, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. CT.
TPCC invites you to a much anticipated session on green shipping in the Great Lakes on Tuesday, April 15, 2025 starting at noon.
Adapting to extreme weather patterns in Michigan and beyond.
Minnesota Sea Grant is leading Sea Grant's 2025 Great Lakes BioBlitz, a community science effort to record as many species as possible within the Great Lakes basin over the course of four weeks: April 22 - May 20, 2025.
Attention shipwreck enthusiasts! Join Bruce Lynn, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and Historical Society, as he tells the story of the museum’s latest shipwreck discovery, WESTERN RESERVE.
Spawning and sustenance: exploring two key aspects of Great Lakes fish ecology.
Join us in Milwaukee, WI, from May 14-16, 2025, for The Future of Fresh Water: Leading the Way in an Era of Scarcity.
Join the IJC Great Lakes Science Advisory Board for a discussion of their recent Great Lakes Winter Science report.
The GLFC Annual Meeting will be held in Traverse City in May 2025.
IAGLR’s 68th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 2-6, 2025.
New York Sea Grant, the Sunset Bay Association, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), present the Sandy Shorelines & Seiches Information Workshop.
Join the Inland Seas Education Association as they unveil a bold new vision for the future of Great Lakes education on their expanded waterfront campus.
The Mississippi Lakes Association is bringing the Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Landing Blitz outreach event to the Lake Avenue boat launch in Carleton Place, Ontario.
The mission of SCUBAnauts International is to educate teens in the marine sciences, enabling them to make a positive impact on the environment and empowering them to become tomorrow’s leaders.