Saildrone, a California based company that provides data solutions for maritime security, ocean mapping, and ocean data, launched two Saildrone Explorer uncrewed surface vehicles Tuesday on a large-scale mission in Lake Superior to support the sustainable management of the $7 billion per year Great Lakes fishery. Read the full story by TB News Watch.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220812-drones-lakesuperior
The Great Lakes region is enjoying another year of lower water levels and wider beaches. July water levels on Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are down more than 2 feet from 2020, a year of near historic highs when waves devoured cherished stretches of sandy coastline. With the exception of Lake Ontario, the other Great Lakes are falling as well. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220812-lakemiwaterlevels
Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. may resume its long-stalled efforts to build the first offshore wind project in the U.S. Great Lakes after the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a challenge to its permit. Read the full story by G Captain.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220812-ohiosupremecourt-greatlakesoffshorewind
Over 60 nature organizations in Ontario have signed a letter calling on both the federal and provincial governments to officially protect the Great Lakes. This letter asks David Piccini, Ontario’s minister of environment, conservation and parks, and federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault to designate the lakes as a national marine conservation area. Read the full story by Canada’s National Observer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220812-ontario-natureorganizations
NCEI News Feed
http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202207
NCEI News Feed
http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/day-2021-south-sandwich-islands-tsunami
Chicago, IL (August 11, 2022) – The Alliance for the Great Lakes believes that access to clean water is a necessity that should never be denied, and we commend Gov. DeWine on investing $1.5 million that will help local communities identify and map lead service lines throughout the state of Ohio.
Mapping out where lead service lines exist so they can eventually be replaced is an important step in creating a water infrastructure system that equitably delivers safe, clean water to all Ohioans.
Ohio has the second-most lead service lines of any state in the country and, as the governor has said, there’s simply no safe level of lead exposure — especially for children, the elderly and other vulnerable communities. The Alliance looks forward to continued collaboration with the governor’s office on this important issue.
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Campbell at her retirement party, holding a young friend.
The one and only Linda Campbell will be retiring from the Aquatic Sciences Center in July after 40 years at ASC and 49 total years working for the people of Wisconsin at the state and university level. Although we will never be able to quantify her immense contributions, we had to try.
Number of scientific symbols available on a current iPad app: more than 3,000
Number available on the Wang computer Campbell was hired to use for scientific manuscripts in 1982: 0 [One of Campbell’s main tasks was to insert scientific symbols into paper manuscripts.]
Newsletter names over 40 years: 3 [from the “Chocolate Doorknob” to the “Littoral Drift” to the “ASC Chronicle”]
Issues of newsletters mailed out: approximately 400,000
Paperclips ordered: 3 billion [We did not count them.]
Sea Grant communications coordinators during this period: 5 [Linda Weimer, Peyton Smith, Susie Isaksen, Stephen Wittman, Moira Harrington]
Average number of emails handled per week in Campell’s first few years: 0 [there was no email in 1982]
Average number of emails handled per week recently: hundreds
Flyers mailed in support of annual American Water Association-Wisconsin Chapter meetings: 40,000
Documents submitted to the SG library: approximately 1,480 between 1982 and 2019
Campbell with Bonnie Willison and Elizabeth White at her retirement party.
Number of times a UW chancellor has made a surprise visit to deliver an award to a Sea Grant staff member: 1 [Campbell received the Classified Staff Employee Recognition Award in 2008 and the current Chancellor John Wiley dropped by to deliver it in person.]
Number of inexplicably huge cabinets at Sea Grant’s first location: 4 [They were chicken coops; the building was previously the poultry research building.]
Days during which Sea Grant staff was forced to use a ladder to enter basement offices in the “old Sea Coop” because of a cracked staircase: approximately 30
Quantity of doughnuts and other treats Campbell has offered to colleagues: more than 3,000
Number of times Campbell’s wonderful laugh has echoed through the halls, bringing joy to all who hear it: uncountable
–by Jennifer Hauxwell and Elizabeth White
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NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
https://noaaglerl.blog/2022/08/10/new-under-ice-observing-capabilities-could-lead-to-new-discoveries-in-the-great-lakes/
Twenty-three-foot long Saildrone solar-powered sailboards are out on Lake Superior now recording data on populations of small fish like whitefish, herring and smelt. It’s part of a three-year project across the Great Lakes to see what larger research boats may have been missing under water. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-drones
A new network of high-tech radio transmitters is being installed along the Ohio coastline as part of a telecommunications project advocates say will help optimize Lake Erie environmental management and accelerate water-based technology development. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-radio-network
After flooding events between 2017 and 2019, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will work with federal agencies and the Great Lakes states to fund the Great Lakes Coastal Resiliency Study, estimated to cost $10.5 million over four years. Read the full story by Spectrum News Buffalo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-coastal-resiliency
A 575-foot section of embankment that has significantly eroded and continues to pollute Michigan’s St. Joseph River with sediment and nutrients will be stabilized with a construction project starting this month. Read the full story by the South Bend Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-st-joseph-river
With species like wild rice, paper birch and moose at risk from a changing climate, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, and Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa are all working on strategies to aid ecosystems on their reservation lands in northeast Minnesota. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-native-climate-change
For 12 days since mid-July, Niagara County health officials have deemed Krull Park beach in Olcott, New York, unsafe for swimming because of elevated bacteria levels in the water. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-olcott-beach
Collaborative efforts are being made in Cedar River, Michigan, to help restore the sturgeon population in Lake Michigan. Members of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been caring for 164 sturgeon and are gearing up for their eventual release at the end of August. Read the full story by the Daily Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-sturgeon
Project Clean Lake, currently underway in Northeast Ohio, has been reducing combined sewage overflow into Lake Erie through the construction of storage tunnels to channel stormwater and sewage to water treatment facilities before reaching the lake. Read the full story by WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-project-clean-lake
Based on indicators of ecosystem health, the Great Lakes are collectively assessed as ‘fair and unchanging’ in the State of the Great Lakes 2022 Report. While progress has been made in reducing toxic chemicals and the establishment of new non-native aquatic species, significant concerns remain. Read the full story by The Manitoulin Expositor.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-state-of-lake
All signs indicate that the warmest water on the Great Lakes is occurring now or has just happened. It could be downhill from here on the water temperature graphs. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-water-temperatures
New public life jacket stations have been set up at beaches in South Haven, Michigan, aimed at helping increase safety during a summer when several Lake Michigan drownings have occurred. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220810-life-jacket
Just announced: purchase a season pass for the remainder of the navigation year and it’s half off! Our season ends Sept. 5 at most upriver locks, but extends until Sept. 25 for DePere and Little Kaukauna locks. Your season pass covers any and all locks as often as you wish to cruise. And remember there’s a lot of beautiful weather left to cruise the locks after Labor day. For more info, visit our website.
Blog – Fox Locks
http://foxlocks.org/2022/08/09/50-off-season-passes/
Just announced: purchase a season pass for the remainder of the navigation year and it’s half off! Our season ends Sept. 5 at most upriver locks, but extends until Sept. 25 for DePere and Little Kaukauna locks. Your season pass covers any and all locks as often as you wish to cruise. And remember there’s a lot of beautiful weather left to cruise the locks after Labor day. For more info, visit our website.
Blog – Fox Locks
http://foxlocks.org/2022/08/09/50-off-season-passes/
Researchers from UW-Green Bay deploy a seine net in a Lake Michigan bay. Image credit: Marie Zhuikov, Wisconsin Sea Grant
There’s nothing fishy about wanting to learn about colleagues’ projects more deeply, while also spending time with far-flung co-workers, right? Or is there? The numbers below—fish measurements in centimeters—were in fact, so fishy.
Bullhead, 26
Banded killifish, 23
Yellow perch, 60
Madtom catfish, 33
Titus Seilheimer shows a bullhead to Noah Hoffman (left) and to members of the Wisconsin Sea Grant communications team at Seagull Bar State Natural Area on Lake Michigan. Image credit: Marie Zhuikov, Wisconsin Sea Grant
On an early August trip to the Seagull Bar State Natural Area on Lake Michigan, five members of the Sea Grant communications team (including me) were exposed to this count and what sounded like the recitation of another, decidedly piscivorous language.
As glorious sunshine streamed down in the sheltered small bay, our co-worker, Sea Grant Fisheries Specialist Titus Seilheimer, called out fish names and proportions. He had collected the fish, more than 100 in all, from both a 150-foot seine net and a fyke net.
In a neat hand and with a sharp pencil, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Assistant Researcher Amy Carrozino-Lyon recorded the counts of species type and measurements on a sheet of paper. She will take the figures back to her campus office and add them to previously collected data about fish species found in four areas with fresh beds of wild rice on the western shore of Green Bay for her study about the effect of wild rice on the ecosystem.
The full record of wild rice’s historic presence in the world’s fifth largest lake is murky, but it is known that this wild grass, revered by Indigenous people, grew for centuries at river mouths on the lake until development, varying water levels and pollution took a toll. Now, the plant prefers shallow waters with organic, soft sediment and clear water that isn’t frequently or extremely stirred.
Amy Carrozino-Lyon is collecting data about fish species found in four areas with fresh beds of wild rice on the western shore of Green Bay for her study about the effect of wild rice on the ecosystem. Image credit: Marie Zhuikov
Carrozino-Lyon has been restoring the stands of gracefully swaying rice, purchasing seed by the truckload and fostering nearly 40 acres of habitat. This year (2022) marks the seventh year of her efforts.
Wild rice’s effect on the ecosystem is also being checked by her two students, Noah Hoffmann and Colin Ritchie. That day, these bright young men, both students at UW-Green Bay, gave us lessons in dragonfly larvae growth, crayfish identification and the differences between native and nonnative aquatic plants.
This is all good stuff to us because we write and edit stories, post on social media and create videos and podcasts about the wonders of the Great Lakes. It was a hands-on tutorial for those of us who typically deal in words, audio and images, not slippery fish and underwater bugs.
It was also a chance to meet with our co-worker, Science Communicator Marie Zhuikov, who is based in Superior while we remaining four communicators, including Bonnie Willison and Jennifer Smith, are based in an office in Madison.
The trip not only connected us in person with valued colleagues Zhuikov and Seilheimer, but it also further proved to be a day to observe a fish count, marvel at nature’s beauty and contemplate a place where wild rice can flourish once more.
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In July, the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the monarch butterfly as endangered for the first time in history. Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan, first installed a pollinator garden in 2018. With the recent news of the monarch’s decline, the zoo is encouraging people to build wildlife habitats of their own.
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http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/08/09/potter-park-zoo-encourages-people-to-help-save-monarch-butterfly-population/
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Fall migration has begun for certain species of Great Lakes birds, marking the start of the annual spectacle when millions of waterfowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, songbirds and raptors leave their summer nesting areas and fly south to warmer climates for the winter. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220808-bird-migration
High-resolution satellite data and near real-time observations about the Earth’s atmosphere are now available to state-level air quality monitoring agencies across the Great Lakes. Michigan is already putting the information to good use. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220808-air-quality
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper is working with the Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust on the Cayuga Creek Stream and Floodplain Restoration project in the Town of Niagara, New York. Read the full story by Niagara Frontier Publications.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220808-restoration
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assessment crew will be working Aug. 16-26 in Douglas County, Wisconsin to estimate the abundance of sea lampreys in the Amnicon, Poplar, Brule and Middle rivers. Read the full story by The Superior Telegram.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220808-lamprey
An invasive silver carp was removed earlier this week after it was found swimming in Lake Calumet on the Far South Side, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced Friday. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220808-carp
New York State is beginning a $1.6 million project to restore and increase wetlands at the Woodlawn Beach State Park in Blasdell, NY. Read and hear the full story by The Buffalo News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220808-wetlands
Ohio State University professor John Lenhart will be using a $150,000 grant to test drinking water in Cleveland, Ohio and surrounding areas for tiny bits of plastic. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220808-plastic
Piles of dead alewives – tiny, silvery fish – are lining the beaches of Lake Michigan, rolling in wave by wave. Read the full story by WGBA – TV – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220808-alewife
While there are thousands of known sites of contamination across the country from hazardous waste dumped or not properly secured by manufacturing facilities and landfills, the ones government officials consider the most dangerous are called Superfund sites. Read the full story by WXYZ – TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220808-pfas
Centuries after the war of 1812, the U.S. Brig Niagara, a replica of the U.S.S. Niagara, brings the history of the Battle of Lake Erie to the Festival of Sails and many other locations. Read the full story by WDIO – TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220808-niagara
NCEI News Feed
http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202207
Findings by researchers at the University of Michigan predict that warming temperatures may result in increased seasonal allergies. They also found that pollen emissions could begin 40 days earlier than normal, with allergy season lasting an additional 19 days. That's in contrast with a normal allergy season that typically lasts 10 to 30 days.
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