Great Lakes Calendar

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) hosts the third annual virtual Great Lakes PFAS Summit on December 5-7, 2022.

The Great Lakes Stewardship has designed a virtual, four-part series focusing on helping teachers—and their students—communicate effectively about the climate crisis.

As part of its responsibilities under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the International Joint Commission (IJC) seeks public input on the Canadian and US governments' 2022 Progress Report of the Parties (PROP). This webinar is part of the IJC's series of webinars to receive public comment.

The U.S. EPA is providing notice of a public meeting for the Great Lakes Advisory Board on December 6, 2022, from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. CT. Pre-registration is required by 3:00 p.m. CT on December 5.

Please join us for a public webinar that will provide updates on work under the Nutrients Annex of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA).

As part of its responsibilities under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the International Joint Commission (IJC) seeks public input on the Canadian and US governments' 2022 Progress Report of the Parties (PROP). This webinar is part of the IJC's series of webinars to receive public comment.

The 133rd Annual International Ship Masters' Association Convention will be hosted by Detroit Lodge No. 7.

Alum application is sometimes used to treat or prevent harmful algal blooms in inland lakes such as Ohio’s Grand Lake St. Mary’s, which experiences severe harmful algal blooms similar to Lake Erie’s western basin. But a 2021 Wright State University study suggests that the benefits, if any, of alum application and other interventions are short-lived.

Every year, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary brings the world of cinema to Alpena! Watch impressive ocean and Great Lakes films from around the world.

WEDA's Midwest Chapter 2022 Meeting is currently scheduled to be held February 21-23, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky. 

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).

Check out the latest in the Sanctuary Lecture Series!

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.

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.