Great Lakes Calendar

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: Managing Fisheries and Exploring Islands

Online

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.

Great Lakes Dredging Team Informational Webinar

Online

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. 

Upper Lakes Committee Meetings

Sault Ste. Marie, ON

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.

Freshwater Science: Understanding and (Potentially) Mitigating the Impacts of Tile Drainage

Online

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.

Lower Lakes Committee Meetings

Hamilton, ON

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 Lower Lakes Committee Meeting will be held March 28-30, 2023, in Hamilton, Ontario. 

Adopt-a-Beach Spring Kickoff

Multiple Locations

Join the Alliance for the Great Lakes for our 2023 Adopt-a-Beach season Spring Kickoff April 21st-23rd!

Lake Erie Conference

Perrysburg, OH

Lake Erie by the experts - information for you that you can share with family and friends. From salt to fish to monitoring updates including learning why Erie's biggest holdback to reducing harmful algae is massive amounts of untreated confined animal manure on tiled ditched fields. And hear from Circle of Blue noted writer Keith […]

The Seagull Workshop

Toronto, ON

Great Lakes Observing System (glos.org) staff will provide an in-depth look into Seagull (seagull.glos.org) functionalities from high to low-level, with demonstrated use cases.

European Frog-bit Collaborative Delimitation Training

Online

As part of the European Frog-bit Collaborative’s effort to delimit high-risk European frog-bit (EFB) infestations within the Great Lakes region, the Collaborative is hosting a one-hour virtual training session to introduce natural resource managers to a standardized EFB monitoring tool that utilizes an ArcGIS Field Maps platform.

Funding and Financing Coastal Resilience: Revolving Loan Funds

Online

In this webinar, experts with state revolving funds (SRFs) experience, including EPA's long-standing Clean Water Revolving Fund (Alison Souders), FEMA’s new Safeguarding Tomorrow program (Rhiannon Kincaid), and on-the-ground project applications (Michael Roberts), will provide an overview of the process and give examples of how SRF's have been used.