Great Lakes Calendar

Michigan Sustainable Business Forum and Kalsec are hosting a networking and educational event discussing the Michigan Food System Waste Reduction RoadMap.

Michigan Sustainable Business Forum and Make Food Not Waste are hosting a networking and educational event discussing the Michigan Food System Waste Reduction RoadMap.

The Healthy Headwaters Lab, at the Great Lakes Institute of Environmental Research, at the University of Windsor is organizing a series of workshops around the Ecosystem Approach.

Michigan Sustainable Business Forum and Gordon Food Service are hosting a networking and educational event discussing the Michigan Food System Waste Reduction RoadMap.

Join EGLE and its partners for Michigan’s inaugural State of the Western Lake Erie Basin Conference, where featured speakers will discuss topics related to phosphorus management in the Western Lake Erie Basin.

Please join us on Wednesday, December 13th from 10:30-12:00 pm eastern / 9:30-11:00 pm central for a webinar that will provide updates on work under the Nutrients Annex of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA).

In this seminar, Bill Currie will present the development and applications of the Mondrian model, which was designed to link across four levels of organization in coastal wetlands.

This talk will focus on nutrient reductions at two wetlands: Brooks Park flowing into Buckeye Lake, a hypereutrophic lake experiencing annual harmful algal blooms.

“Finding a Balance” is the theme of this year’s Ontario Invasive Plant Council Conference!

The Council of the Great Lakes Regionand the UN Global Compact Network USA are partnering to highlight the role business plays in securing a sustainable future.

Volunteers are needed to help search for winter stoneflies (sensitive insects that hatch from streams in winter) as part of a long term monitoring program. No experience is necessary, just an interest in learning and willingness to be outdoors for several hours in the winter.

The 2024 Ontario Phragmites Working Group meeting theme is "Finding a Balance!"

The Stewardship Network Conference will take place January 29-30, 2024, in East Lansing, Michigan.

Registration for the award-winning Michigan State University Extension Introduction to Lakes Online course is now open! This introductory six-week online course kicks off January 30th and is designed for anyone interested in inland lakes including concerned residents, decision makers, local leaders, and lakefront property owners.

Bundle up and join us for the Shiver on the River Eco Fair on Saturday, February 3, 2024!

This presentation will feature important findings from winter weather regime-based studies leveraging precipitation observations from a long-term, ground-based instrument suite in the Northern Great Lakes region.

On February 15, FLOW will present an “Art Meets Water” virtual event with Maryann Lesert, novelist and author of the upcoming book, Land Marks.

Wisconsin Wetlands Association invites you to participate in the 29th Annual Wetland Science Conference, to be held February 20-22, 2024, at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

The Second Annual Meeting of the Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences will take place in Fredericton, New Brunswick, February 21-24, 2024.

Call Before You Haul 2.0 is an effort to work collaboratively with Great Lakes region entities to reduce interstate transport of aquatic invasive species - for the benefit of all states and provinces.