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...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY... * WHAT...Cold temperatures will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, and northeast Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 8 AM CDT Thursday. * IMPACTS...Frost and cold temperatures could damage cold-sensitive vegetation.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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by Maya Reinfeldt, Community Engaged Intern Spotlight series: The lands of the Ojibwe people span across southern Canada, the Northern Midwest and the Northern Plains of the United States. In working towards the Wisconsin Water Library’s goal of promoting Great Lakes Literacy, specifically, principle 6 (The Great Lakes and humans in their watersheds are inextricably […]

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https://waterlibrary.aqua.wisc.edu/spotlight-ojibwe-people-in-stem/

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...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY... * WHAT...Temperatures in the lower to middle 30s will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, and northeast Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 8 AM CDT Thursday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI12640D3DF314.FrostAdvisory.12640D4C3E10WI.GRBNPWGRB.e14f683a380e0a78362e4d4f2df7f92c

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Episode 2209 Lesson Plans: Mapping the Floor of the Great Lakes

This lesson will explore the phenomenon of sound waves underwater used to map landforms and how modern technology is helping update the maps of the terrain beneath the Great Lakes. Students will learn about the history of mapping the lakebed and the SONAR technology used by NOAA to upgrade our maps.

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/09/episode-2209-mapping-lesson-plan/

Gary Abud Jr.

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As the Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) retires a century-old power plant on the shores of Lake Michigan shuts down, some residents and activists are warning the region’s water supply could be at risk. Advocates say the coal ash NIPSCO plans to leave on the site puts groundwater and Lake Michigan in danger of contamination in Michigan City and beyond. Read the full story by WTTW-TV – Chicago, IL.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-contamination-risk

James Polidori

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has announced plans to stop the spread of invasive carp in the Great Lakes with an engineered channel in the Brandon Road Lock. A series of high-tech barriers will prevent invasive carp from travelling upstream to Lake Michigan while still allowing boats to pass through. Read the full story by The Manitoulin Expositor.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-invasivecarp-plan

James Polidori

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Indigenous leaders in North America, environmental and geographical experts, and volunteers are collaborating on the Biinaagami Project, a planned three-year initiative to engage Canadians and Americans in stewardship of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The St. Catharines Standard.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-stewardship-project

James Polidori

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The Great Lakes Water Authority announced that a repaired water transmission main that services several Metro Detroit communities is now expected to resume normal operations in early October, weeks after its expected resumption, after a leak closed the main in mid-August. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-watermain-delay

James Polidori

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This Thursday, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is hosting a virtual public hearing on a push to restore the Grand River’s rapids in downtown Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids Whitewater and the city of Grand Rapids are seeking a permit to remove four low-head dams and replace them with rocks and boulders. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-restoration-publichearing

James Polidori

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In Minnesota, Brighton Beach’s construction plan is an estimated $3.5 million dollars. However, Duluth’s Park and Recreation department are finding ways to reduce costs and be more sustainable, such as by reusing Brighton Beach’s current rocks and gravel. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, MN.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-construction-sustainability

James Polidori

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Eddie Olschansky, founder of Trash Fish Cleveland, organizes volunteers to clean up trash from waterways leading to Lake Erie. Olschansky aims to educate and encourage his community and hopes to give his volunteers a new perspective on plastic pollution. Read the full story by Spectrum News 1.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-erie-cleanup

James Polidori

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The Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup, launched in 2020 by Pollution Probe and the Council of the Great Lakes Region, is focused both on cleanup technology and raising awareness of the plastic waste problem. Devices like the BeBot, a $55,000 beach-sifting robot that collects the waste buried in a defined area, aim to spark people’s curiosity and get them concerned about the issue. Read the full story by Axios.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-cleanup-technology

James Polidori

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of both the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the Great Lakes Public Forum. One topic of discussion at this year’s forum is how the Great Lakes are impacted by climate change and ongoing work to understand how they could be further impaired in the future. Read the full story by The Pointer.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-forum-climate

James Polidori

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A new film, “Against the Current 2: Keeping Invasive Carp Out of the Great Lakes” is documenting efforts to prevent invasive carp species from entering the Great Lakes. The film is a sequel to 2020’s “Against the Current,” which detailed work on the Brandon Road Lock and Dam project near Chicago. Read the full story by Finger Lakes 1.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-invasivecarp-film

James Polidori

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The Great Lakes region sits at the intersection of two migratory super-highways, the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways, where more than 380 bird species fly through the region each fall. The Bird Migration Explorer, a new interactive map from the National Audubon Society, lets bird watchers track the journeys that globe-trotting birds make each year. Read the full story by Fond du Lac Reporter.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220928-bird-mapping

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue

The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/09/remedies-for-harmful-algal-blooms-available-in-law/

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Episode 2209 Lesson Plans: Fascinating Freshwater Fish

This lesson will explore the phenomenon of biodiversity in the Great Lakes and the efforts one museum in Ontario, Canada has taken to catalog it. Students will learn about the history of fish indexing in the Great Lakes, the type collection at the Royal Ontario Museum, and discover why this kind of organism library is helpful to preserving the Great Lakes ecosystem.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/09/episode-2209-freshwater-fish-lesson-plan/

Gary Abud Jr.

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Juliann Krupa is the Volunteer Engagement Manager at the Alliance for the Great Lakes. In this role, Juliann utilizes her passion for aquatic science and conservation to oversee over 15,000 Adopt-a-Beach program participants throughout the Great Lakes region and to inspire appreciation, conservation, and restoration of the world’s largest freshwater resource.

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Every Tuesday, the Alliance for the Great Lakes will chat with special guests about Great Lakes issues and dig into what it all means for you and your community. Subscribe to our Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Deezer (more platforms coming soon).

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The post Juliann Krupa: September Adopt a Beach Cleanup & Half a Million Pounds Goal appeared first on Alliance for the Great Lakes.

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News - Alliance for the Great Lakes

https://greatlakes.org/2022/09/juliann-krupa-september-adopt-a-beach-cleanup-half-a-million-pounds-goal/

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The installation of a state-of-the-art street lighting system on Belle Isle – located on the Michigan side of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario – was a major step forward in saving energy and electricity while improving safety for visitors. Now five years later, a new study says computer optimization modeling could lead to even further savings and other benefits, such as fewer crashes, for communities that upgrade their street light systems. 

The post Belle Isle study lights way for savings first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Echo

Great Lakes Echo

http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/09/27/belle-isle-study-lights-way-for-savings/

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Mapping the Great Lakes: Underwater discoveries await

Love staring at a map and discovering something interesting? Then “Mapping the Great Lakes” is for you. It’s a monthly Great Lakes Now feature created by Alex B. Hill, a self-described “data nerd and anthropologist” who combines cartography, data, and analytics with storytelling and human experience.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/09/mapping-the-great-lakes-underwater-discoveries-await/

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Momentum continues to build in the Green Bay area for the National Estuarine Research Reserve, a federal designation to help protect and study coastal wetlands and natural estuaries. Land set aside for the reserve is designated through a six-step process that usually takes about four to six years to finish. Read the full story by Press Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-national-reserve

Patrick Canniff

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between Canada and the United States, which is happening without the prime minister or the president planning to come together as Richard Nixon and Pierre Trudeau did in 1972. Water communities, led by Indigenous leaders are coming together to renew our commitments and celebrate the Great Lakes, but will our leaders be listening? Read the full story by Toronto Star.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-glwqa

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A dugout canoe used by indigenous people 3,000 years ago recently recovered from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota is the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region. The canoe, which was carved from a single piece of white oak and is 14.5 feet long, was discovered near where a 1,200-year-old fully intact canoe was found last November. Read the full story by CNN.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-canoe

Patrick Canniff

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A local group in Chicago is launching a campaign this fall that asks Wolf Lake fishers that catch mudpuppies, a threatened population of aquatic salamanders, to immediately release the threatened and endangered animal. Read the full story by Block Club Chicago.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-mudpuppies

Patrick Canniff

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A lifetime of taking in Michigan’s pristine wilderness coupled with a calling to protect it has led Colleen Linn into the research field, analyzing the division in why some people care about environmental issues and others don’t. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-michigan

Patrick Canniff

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Avoiding Coast Guard regulations, potential damage and a horrific cost atop the $1 million already spent and the bucketloads to come, the Ste. Claire will not sail. Essentially, it will be an ornate barge, but the owners figure the memories are more important than the motion. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-steamer

Patrick Canniff

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This weekend, three cruise ships made their way into the city of Milwaukee’s port, one being the Viking Octantis cruise ship. It marked one of the final ships of the 2022 season and the last Viking cruise of the season. Read the full story by Spectrum News 1.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-cruise

Patrick Canniff

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The Great Lakes Water Authority is asking communities that were affected by a 120-inch water main break August 13th in St. Clair County, Michigan to continue to limit outdoor water use until the authority completes a flushing and disinfection process at the main. The advisory was lifted in less than two days for most communities, and all were relieved of the boil order within a week. Read the full story by The Oakland Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220926-water-main

Patrick Canniff

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Fish scientists: From childhood aspirations to Amazonian expeditions

Most professions offer a range of subspecialties to choose from.

Want to be a doctor? What kind? Surgeon, pediatrician, neurologist…?

Want to work construction? What kind? Plumer, electrician, carpenter…?

The study of fishes is different only in that the subspecialties are far less familiar to people outside the field.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/09/fish-scientists/

Kathy Johnson

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Native Americans once bent saplings to grow into directional markers. They signaled such things as where to cross a river and where to enter and exit trails. There are likely only a few hundred original trail trees left in the Great Lakes area. Some are over 200 years old.

The post Tracking trail trees: Looking for horizontal shapes in a vertical world first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Echo

http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/09/26/tracking-trail-trees-looking-for-horizontal-shapes-in-a-vertical-world/

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Evers administration relaunches efforts to limit PFAS

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration is trying again to limit the levels of a group of chemicals known as PFAS in Wisconsin’s groundwater.

The Wisconsin State Journal reported that Evers authorized the Department of Natural Resources last week to begin work on administrative rules establishing limits.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/09/ap-evers-administration-efforts-limit-pfas/

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Energy News Roundup: Line 3 protests, renewable energy efforts growing

Keep up with energy-related developments in the Great Lakes area with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.

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  • Illinois to tackle orphaned oil, gas wells — Alton Telegraph

Illinois Gov.

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/09/energy-news-roundup-line-3-protests-renewable-energy-efforts-growing/

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“Me and Debry,” a half-hour, whimsical, audience participation play about litter (marine debris) in the Great Lakes, will debut at 10:30 a.m., Oct. 9, at the Donald and Carol Kress Pavilion and Egg Harbor Library at 7845 Church Street, Egg Harbor, Wisconsin. The performance is free and open to all, though best suited for audiences in upper elementary grades to adults.

The rhyming play was produced by David Daniel with American Players Theater. It stars Door County actors Cassandra Bissell and Neil Brookshire.

Doors open at 10:20 a.m. Seating is first-come, first-served. After the play, a science fair with family-friendly activities will be available at the pavilion until noon.

“Me and Debry,” (pronounced “debris”) was funded by Wisconsin Sea Grant with grants from the National Sea Grant College Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Debris Program, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the state of Wisconsin.

The post Family-friendly environmental play debuts in Door County first appeared on Wisconsin Sea Grant.

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News Releases | Wisconsin Sea Grant

News Releases | Wisconsin Sea Grant

https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/family-friendly-environmental-play-debuts-in-door-county/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-friendly-environmental-play-debuts-in-door-county

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University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professors Haoran Wei and Mohan Qin are looking into how floating plastic debris in the Great Lakes can release nano- and microplastics smaller than 10 micrometers. Read and listen to the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-microplastics

Jill Estrada

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Line 5 is still a point of cross-border contention: Enbridge says the pipeline is safe, while a Michigan study shows oil from a spill could reach Manitoulin Island and beyond. Read the full story by The Narwhal.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220923-line-5-risks

Jill Estrada