We know that the Great Lakes are one interconnected watershed, with thousands of rivers and streams draining into the lakes. We can see these surface waters and understand their immensity and flows. What about the vast system of water under the Great Lakes known as groundwater?
Modeling
2017 has been a brutal year for floods across the Canada-US border, and more broadly North America.
The IJC’s Transboundary Hydro Data Harmonization Task Force partnered with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to host a workshop on developing authoritative transboundary hydrologic units for the Great Lakes…
A new Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) was formed by the University of Michigan to infuse social science, engineering, and landscape design into ongoing natural science research across the lakes.
Changes can hit the Great Lakes as quickly as a pollutant accidentally entering a river or as slowly as the decades-long transformation brought about by invasive zebra and quagga mussels.
Hundreds of water professionals gathered for the annual conference of Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) in June in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Water condition forecasts developed by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) and University of Michigan’s Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) could help recreational anglers, charter boat businesses…
The International Joint Commission’s (IJC) Great Lakes Water Quality Board is investigating current issues and trying to anticipate future problems when it comes to nutrients, the decommissioning of nuclear power facilities, protecting wetlands, and minimizing the impacts from flame retardants as…