The Great Lakes-St Lawrence region plays a pivotal role in the economies of Canada and the United States.
Water Quality
Great Art for Great Lakes (GAGL) has commissioned eight artists across Ontario to work with the public on participatory artworks that celebrate our iconic Great Lakes.
Efforts to “Untrouble the Waters” of our Great Lakes have been years in the making.
The Great Lakes have long been a source of nutritious food for people who live along its shores, with an abundance of aquatic life like walleye, yellow perch, catfish, and bass.
More than 1,000 scientists, educators, policymakers, academics, engineers and others descended upon Detroit, Michigan, from May 15-19 for the 60th annual International Association of Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) conference to discuss their latest findings and discoveries.
An invader in a massive freshwater basin. An uncountable number of spawning grounds. A fishery on the brink. A desperate search for a solution that ended up becoming the most successful aquatic invasive species control team effort in American and Canadian history. It’s not a movie, but rather the…
Not all hacking is bad. One of several Great Lakes regional efforts to find solutions to Lake Erie’s biggest problems took home two top awards at an Erie Hack Innovation Summit.
The International-Rainy Lake of the Woods Watershed Board has three committees; one of which is the Water Levels Committee whose duty it is to ensure compliance with the Orders of the International Joint Commission (IJC) for the operation of the dams on the Rainy River and outlets of Namakan Lake.…
Ships moving within the Great Lakes could be carrying viral passengers inside ballast tanks from one port to another.
Huge algal bloom fossils appear in rocks that are 3 billion years old. These organisms survived when other life couldn’t, and helped to form our atmosphere. Today, similar blooms are visible from outer space.