Researchers are on a mission to map the bottom of all five Great Lakes, a system so sparsely-documented, some portions contain only one or two data points to cover an area the size of Detroit. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-mappingbottomgreatlakes
A tank of live invasive sea lampreys — the vampires of the Great Lakes — will visit the Midland Tall Ships Festival from July 22 through July 24. Read the full story by Midland Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-vampiresofthegreatlakes
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission announced that it has conducted targeted invasive carp sampling in Presque Isle Bay, Erie County, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) detected the presence of Silver Carp environmental DNA (eDNA). Read the full story by PennWATCH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-invasivesilvercarp
Some South Haven businesses have started offering red flag day specials — deals to incentivize families to visit them rather than Lake Michigan when conditions are dangerous. Read the full story by UP Matters.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-redflagdealslakemi
Member agencies of the St. Marys River Fisheries Task Group will conduct a fish community survey of the entire St. Marys River during August. The St. Marys River is a connecting channel between Lake Superior and Lake Huron. The survey work will cover many locations along the 70-mile-long river, from the upper river near Brimley to where the river empties into Lake Huron at DeTour. Read the full story by The Mining Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-fishsurverystmarysriver
West Michigan welcomes tens of thousands of visitors from around the world every summer and many of them travel by cruise ship. Cruise the Great Lakes expects about 150,000 visitors into ports around the Midwest and Canada in 2022. There are 4 cruise lines serving Great Lakes ports, generating more than $120 million this season. One of those ports is Muskegon. Read the full story by Fox 7 News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-greatlakescruises
A local history museum paired with the public library would make for an “exciting” combination at the Discovery Centre on Hamilton’s west harbour, Mayor Fred Eisenberger says. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-waterfrontdiscoverycentre
Three parks in Northeast Michigan will undergo improvements after Michigan allocated $535,000 to help fund renovations. Rogers City is slated to receive $185,000 to update the popular Lakeside Park on Lake Huron. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-localparkfunding
Jurors heard closing arguments Thursday in the only trial to arise thus far from the Flint water crisis, a dispute over whether two engineering firms should be held partially responsible for the city’s lead contamination in 2014-15. Read the full story by WNEM-TV – Saginaw, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-flintwatercase
Sixty years of the Canadian Coast Guard service in Canada was recognized during a service aboard the Canadian Coast Guard vessel and museum, the Alexander Henry, on Monday. The Alexander Henry, a decommissioned icebreaker and part of the Lakehead Transportation Museum in Thunder Bay, was also celebrated — as it was launched in the city 64 years ago. Read the full story by The Chronicle Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-cacoastguard
The high concentration of microplastics in the Great Lakes is causing issues for humans and wildlife, and recycling alone will not remedy the problem. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-miroplastics
With the improvement of water and wildlife conditions within the Rochester, New York, embayment of Lake Ontario, health and environmental agencies are seeking public input on the proposed elimination of the Area of Concern designation. Read the full story by the Rochester Business Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-rochester-embayment
A harmful algae bloom that can be toxic to humans and aquatic life has been spotted in western parts of Lake Erie over the past couple of days. The type of algae present in this algae bloom has been identified as Microcystis cyanobacteria. Read the full story by WKBN-TV – Youngstown, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-algae-bloom
A recent meeting of the Pennsylvania Senate’s Game & Fisheries Committee focused on the recovery of fish populations and water quality in Lake Erie, as well as the need for more funding to promote tourism for the area. Read the full story by The Center Square.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-erie-hearing
For the first time in four years, local, tribal, and state groups came together with the U.S. Coast Guard to train for disasters on the Great Lakes. Drones, self-driving personal watercraft, and other remote-controlled water vehicles took center stage on Lake Huron. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-oil-spills
Working with the organization Save the River, 34 members of U.S. Congress have sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lobbying for stricter ballast water discharge standards. Read the full story by WRVO- Oswego, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-ballast-standards
Awaiting state budget approval, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy could soon be building a jetty in the first step to clean up mine waste from Buffalo Reef on Lake Superior with the help of six additional agencies. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-egle-jetty
A group of Duluth, Minnesota, high school students has collaborated with their peers in Petrozavodsk, Russia, to produce a video celebrating their shared connections as residents of communities located on two of the largest freshwater lakes in the world — Lake Superior and Lake Onega. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-student-connections
The Great Lakes Water Authority announced that they’ve denied about 24,000 claims from victims of last year’s extensive southeast Michigan summer flooding after a probe found that heavy rainfall was the primary cause, not the electrical problems at two east-side pumping stations that reduced the ability to pump wastewater. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-flooding-claims
Green Bay, WI
https://www.weather.gov/www.weather.gov/grb/071919_severe_event
Green Bay, WI
https://www.weather.gov/www.weather.gov/grb/071919_severe_event
Green Bay, WI
https://www.weather.gov/www.weather.gov/grb/072019_severe_event
Green Bay, WI
https://www.weather.gov/www.weather.gov/grb/072019_severe_event
MADISON, Wis. — Mexican free-tailed bats can be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus but don’t appear to spread it or become sick, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study published today.
Wisconsin
http://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/covid-19-virus-can-infect-mexican-free-tailed-bats
By Mary Schmidt, Fox Locks Marketing
We’re used to seeing pontoons, pleasure boats, and kayaks through the Fox Locks, but imagine if a pleasure cruiser longer than a football field were to go through a lock. You’d need a really big lock and that’s what we saw on a recent cruise on the Danube River. Our tour passed through Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary where we crossed through several locks—most during the overnight hours. We were on board the Avalon Passion, one of the Avalon line’s river cruisers—at 443’ long and 39’ wide, the ship can be a tight fit in a lock if there are other boats present. As a comparison, our locks are between 35’-37’ long!
We started the cruise at Regensburg, Germany, then crossed beautiful hills on the way to Passau, Germany. The Jochenstein Lock is in the Wachau Valley near Passau and provided excellent views through the locks.
The captain invited us onto the bridge to watch the process, but as soon as we were in the lock, he steered the ship from controls located on the port and starboard sides of the ship. There, he got a closer look at the clearance on the sides of the lock—at some points it was only a few inches. Please watch this short video to get an idea of what it’s like to travel through locks that have been in use for commercial and pleasure crafts for years.
Blog – Fox Locks
http://foxlocks.org/2022/07/18/a-trip-through-european-locks/
By Mary Schmidt, Fox Locks Marketing
We’re used to seeing pontoons, pleasure boats, and kayaks through the Fox Locks, but imagine if a pleasure cruiser longer than a football field were to go through a lock. You’d need a really big lock and that’s what we saw on a recent cruise on the Danube River. Our tour passed through Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary where we crossed through several locks—most during the overnight hours. We were on board the Avalon Passion, one of the Avalon line’s river cruisers—at 443’ long and 39’ wide, the ship can be a tight fit in a lock if there are other boats present. As a comparison, our locks are between 35’-37’ long!
We started the cruise at Regensburg, Germany, then crossed beautiful hills on the way to Passau, Germany. The Jochenstein Lock is in the Wachau Valley near Passau and provided excellent views through the locks.
The captain invited us onto the bridge to watch the process, but as soon as we were in the lock, he steered the ship from controls located on the port and starboard sides of the ship. There, he got a closer look at the clearance on the sides of the lock—at some points it was only a few inches. Please watch this short video to get an idea of what it’s like to travel through locks that have been in use for commercial and pleasure crafts for years.
Blog – Fox Locks
http://foxlocks.org/2022/07/18/a-trip-through-european-locks/
A parade and ceremony will take place today in Thunder Bay, Ontario in recognition of 60 years of Canadian Coast Guard service. The event will celebrate the critical contribution and role of the Canadian Coast Guard in maintaining and policing the waterways of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway System since 1962. Read the full story by Lake Superior News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-coast-guard
Celebrated every year on the third Sunday in July, Lake Superior Day is a day to bask in the glory of the largest of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WDIC-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-lake-superior
Dr. David Philipp, a professor at the University of Illinois and a Director of the Fisheries Conservation Foundation has been studying the bass populations in eastern Ontario lakes for decades. He argues that though the bass season opened June 18 this year, males were still guarding their broods contributing to increased nest predation. Read the full story by Smiths Falls Record News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-fish-spawning
Even though this is the first year for the Viking’s cruise ships on the Great Lakes, commercial cruising has been slowly expanding in the lakes the past decade, with the exception of the initial pandemic years. 2022 may be setting records, with nine cruise ships setting sail this season, four of them new ships making their inaugural trips through the locks and into the lakes. Read the full story by Chicago Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-cruise-ship
The state of Michigan may no longer plant brown trout in Lake Huron in Northeast Michigan, as efforts to release them yielded only about 2% survival. Instead, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is planning to release brown trout in other areas where they believe the survival rate is higher. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-brown-trout
Kevin Ailes began researching the wreck of the Milwaukie, a ship that went down in a fierce winter storm near Saugatuck in November of 1842. It’s one of the earliest known shipwrecks along the West Michigan lakeshore. Read the full story by UpNorthLive.com.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-shipwreck
NCEI News Feed
http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/participating-2022-esip-july-meeting
Ontario’s electricity system is searching for more power producers as demand rises and a major nuclear plant nears retirement, a process likely to secure more natural gas generation while the government seeks to end reliance on it. It means that for at least the next two decades, greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are set to increase. Read the full story by The Canadian Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-energy-nuclear
The former Marmoraton iron mine in Northland, Ontario is being considered for a pumped energy storage site potentially powering 1,000 homes through the stored hydropower, but financial concerns remain. Read the full story by The Narwhal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-energy-pump
On Saturday July 16th, the 98th Bayview Mackinac Race took place as more than 170 sailboats headed out onto Lake Huron. Read the full story by Times Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-sailboat-race
The town of Euclid, OH located about 15 minutes northeast of Cleveland, has had fish wash up on their shoreline over the past week. View the full story by WOIO-TV – Euclid, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-dead-fish
Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service
https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI1264009A344C.DenseFogAdvisory.1264009A45E0WI.GRBNPWGRB.2777072c3b4a01b9eaadb00d5334973e
Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service
https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI12640098F5F0.DenseFogAdvisory.1264009A45E0WI.GRBNPWGRB.2777072c3b4a01b9eaadb00d5334973e
Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service
https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI12640098AA8C.SpecialWeatherStatement.126400995B80WI.GRBSPSGRB.3b77a733acfe35fc01f412b80021d336
In the Great Lakes basin, public water supplies and industrial water consumption are continually both the largest users and consumers of water, but overall usage of Great Lakes water has gone down in recent years according to the Great Lakes Commission’s most recent water use report. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-water-consumers
Great Lakes officials are using tech to scan the web for businesses selling invasive species. The Great Lakes Commission is testing a web-crawler that scans for websites selling invasive species that could harm the Great Lakes. Read the full story Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-gldiatr
Michigan’s fisheries will be getting a $34 million boost from the state’s new budget, which will go to infrastructure upgrades at Michigan’s aging fish hatcheries and replacing an outdated Great Lakes survey vessel. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-fish-budget
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System, a 300-mile freshwater system that includes both Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, has seen a steady increase in traffic since the start of its 2022 navigation season with few supply chain issues. Read the full story WWTI-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-supply-chain
Beyond the health risks of algal blooms, Toledo, Ohio residents are paying the price for this ever-present threat. According to a report released in May by the nonprofit Alliance for the Great Lakes, the city of Toledo spends, on average, $18.76 per person annually on algal bloom monitoring and treatment, making water bills unaffordable to many. Read the full story by Grist.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-water-cost
The group Citizens Against Wind Turbines In Lake Erie held an informational meeting Tuesday night in Hamburg, New York calling for a moratorium on offshore turbines in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WGRZ-TV – Buffalo, New York.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-wind-turbines
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced on Wednesday that it received a $150,000 grant to expand K-12 environmental education in the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River watersheds. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-education
While many flame retardants are now banned, accumulation in wildlife is still prevalent, with these chemicals being found in almost all the animals studied in the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by The Conversation.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-flame-retardants
Pollution Probe and the Council of the Great Lakes Region are leading the charge to keep our beaches and waterbodies clean through the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup — the largest initiative of its kind in the world, using innovative plastic capture technologies to remove plastic and other litter from the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Toronto Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-plastic
If you have spent any time on the beaches of Lake Erie lately, you may have likely noticed a big ship canvassing the water. The NOAA vessel Thomas Jefferson has been canvassing the lake for the past week by using high-tech sonar to help mariners understand what is beneath the water. Read the full story by Erie New Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-lake-floor
