Great Lakes Calendar

The Great Lakes Coastal Assembly and Audubon Great Lakes present the first inaugural Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Symposium, a workshop for conservation practitioners, scientists, and coastal wetland stakeholders. Over two days, participants will explore the state of our coastal wetlands in the face of a rapidly changing climate, discuss current topics related to coastal wetlands management, and provide input on the restoration of high-priority sites in the Western Lake Erie Basin. 

Join the International Joint Commission and the Duluth region’s organizations, governments and citizens who are working to protect the region’s water resources. Learn about key successes and challenges for the community’s waters, and contribute your views about the health and vitality of Lake Superior and the Great Lakes.

Join the International Joint Commission and the Ashland region’s organizations, governments and citizens who are working to protect the region’s water resources. Learn about key successes and challenges for the community’s waters, and contribute your views about the health and vitality of Lake Superior and the Great Lakes.

Registration is now open for the State of the Bay 2019 Conference to be held September 26, 2019 in Bay City, MI.  This one day conference is your chance to learn about activities related to the restoration, conservation and protection of Saginaw Bay. 

EPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office and the Interagency Ecological Restoration Quality Committee are pleased to announce a new publication to address the unique challenges associated with controlling and documenting the quality of ecological monitoring data. In this webinar, two of the publication's primary authors will discuss the publication's contents.

Sponsored by the Marine Technology Society, this event will focus on current mapping activities in the Great Lakes, technologies utilized, and discussion regarding priorities and impacts for the future.

The 2019 State of Lake Huron (SOLH19) Conference will be held October 8-11 on the campus of Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Michigan. The event will also feature the annual meeting of the Great Lakes Beach Association, and other associated workshops and field trips.

The Great Lakes Environmental Remediation and Redevelopment Conference in Lansing, Michigan is a first-of-its-kind conference that will provide a unique forum to focus on remediation and redevelopment in the Great Lakes Region. 

The 2019 Source Water Protection Conference will provide opportunities to learn about management options for source water protection and steps you can take to develop or enhance an existing program. Designed for communities and public water supplies, attendees will learn about a variety of important topics that include ground and surface water protection issues, wellhead protection, risk communication, funding initiatives, emerging contaminants and state program updates.

Toledo’s innovative Lake Erie Bill of Rights will share the stage with a family of "forever chemicals" and other hot topics at the 19th annual Great Lakes Water Conference on Friday, Nov. 8 at The University of Toledo College of Law.

BOOST is a live, crowd-funded pitchfest in support of solving environmental challenges in Chicago and around the Midwest. Hosted by the Delta Emerging Leaders, the associate board of Delta Institute, BOOST brings together social entrepreneurs with unique and innovative projects to pitch their concepts to a live audience.

This webinar will feature the latest research on PFAS including impacts on reproductive and child health, the biological effects of exposure on fish and wildlife populations and more.

The 8th Biennial State of the Strait Conference will be held November 19, 2019, at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario. Collaborate with agency managers, researchers, students, concerned citizens and more, to analyze the health of our unique trans-national ecosystem.

Please join the Great Lakes Hydrilla Collaborative on Tuesday, November 19th from 2:00-3:00pm EST for the next webinar in the Great Lakes Hydrilla Collaborative’s technical webinar series: “Two Case Studies on Hydrilla Rapid Response in the Great Lakes.”

The Michigan Sustainability Conference (MISCON) is Michigan’s one of a kind event for transforming social and environmental sustainability. In partnership with Michigan Green Communities, attendees will network with hundreds of business and community leaders this November 20-21 in Lansing to learn from, collaborate, and enable success with the community that’s driving meaningful change.