Lake Huron

About the webinar: What is Lakebed 2030? It’s a regional initiative to map the Great Lakes at high-resolution. More specifically, it’s an effort to address the need for high-resolution bathymetry and bathymetry-derived products. The initiative is targeting 2030 as the
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Interested in getting connected with the Smart Great Lakes Initiative (SGLi)*? SGLi leadership is hosting a meeting alongside Current, a Chicago-based nonprofit working to advance research and market-driven innovations to enhance water resources, in downtown Chicago on April 21.  We held a
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2019 was a busy one with the launch of the Smart Great Lakes Initiative, continuation of multi-year projects, and the start of some new. Read about some of the most important projects of 2019 in our latest annual impact report.
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Oct. 21, 2019 Ann Arbor, Mich. – Tomorrow, the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS), a nonprofit organization coordinating Great Lakes data collection, management, and sharing, will announce the launch of the Smart Great Lakes Initiative as part of their strategic
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Wondering what we were up to in 2018? Check out our annual report  to learn what we’re doing about harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, chemical spills in the Huron-Erie Corridor, and getting people the buoy data they need when
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An industrial and shipping hotspot, home to refineries, factories, and commercial shipping lanes, the Huron-Erie Corridor represents a region especially vulnerable to damage from chemical spills. Helping resource managers understand how a toxin can spread through the waterway is crucial
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   Those seeking to monitor currents in the Straits of Mackinac will soon have high quality data at their fingertips thanks to one of GLOS’ latest projects in partnership with Michigan Technological University. By securing an NOAA grant, GLOS
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We’ve got a lot of data available through GLOS, it’s up to you to decide how to use it. Researchers get plenty of support from the data portal, but what if you’re applying real-time data on or near the water?
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Summer boating time is here. While you can get data through the Great Lakes Observing System at any time of year, we’d be lying if we said we didn’t have a “season.” As our website hits rise we wanted to
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The Great Lakes Observing System gathers annually at their general membership meeting. This year the group gathered at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The agenda was set with acknowledgement of the beginning of a new
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