We're launching the Smart Great Lakes Initiative as part of our strategic plan for 2020-2025. The initiative exists to modernize an information ecosystem based on Great Lakes environmental data in order to improve understanding, use, and management of the lakes.

Over 45 participants representing IOOS regional associations, partners, vendors, and other “friends of IOOS” from the US, Canada, and beyond came together to tackle some tough ocean and Great Lake data management problems and develop some new tools and capabilities. Find presentation recordings and other resources here.

See where ice is forming right now and 72 hours into the future. Data is from NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab's Great Lakes Coastal Forecasting System.