The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded nearly $1.5 million in federal funding to projects focused on combatting harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Fulton County Expositor.
Algal blooms cause lower housing prices in Lake Erie communities, according to a study published earlier this year in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. View the full video story by Great Lakes Echo. Read the full story
Black Swamp Conservancy has acquired the conservation easement on 1,100 acres of marshland in Ottawa County, increasing the land it protects from development in northwest Ohio to more than 2,100 acres. Read the full story by the Review Times. Read the full story
How do you make Lake Erie “smart”? The Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA) set out to do just that. Inspired by smart cities where you can get real-time traffic updates or find a parking space on your phone, they wondered… ‘what could the lake tell us?’ Now, the CWA is impacting public health and safety while attracting good-paying jobs…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced plans to stop the spread of invasive carp in the Great Lakes via a series of high-tech barriers designed to prevent invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan while still allowing boats to pass through. Read the full story by The Manitoulin Expositor. Read the full story
Buffalo State College has announced that its Great Lakes Center is the recipient of more than $3 million federal dollars to fund research on benthic invertebrates, such as zooplankton, and mysid crustaceans in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WBFO- Buffalo, NY. Read the full story
If you want to feel small, stand a few feet from a 740-foot freighter as it slides past on its way out of a 1,200-foot shipping lock at the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive. Read the full story
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