The Dangerous Side of Currents – Learning about Great Lakes Currents In a darkened room full of natural resource professionals, pictures of splendid summer scenes were used to start off presentations. The pictures showed people playing at the beach, swimmers’...
Image courtesy: Eric J. Anderson, Physical Scientist, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory The World of Modeling Exploring scientific models By Stephanie Ariganello, Michigan Sea Grant Models are misunderstood. No, not the beauties of the fashion variety...
Climate Change and Water Quality in the Great Lakes Michigan Sea Grant is leading the outreach and education component of a five-year project focusing on climate change and water quality. Researchers are using the western basin of Lake Erie and the Maumee River...
Scientists Among Us: Consider Becoming a Citizen Scientist Did you ever fancy yourself a scientist? Citizen science is booming. You can be part of the movement. Whether it’s eyeballing birds, spotting salamanders, identifying and counting aquatic bugs or gauging...
Tackling Complex Environmental Problems What do muck, water highways, small harbors, Great Lakes education, the Grand River and dead birds have in common? They are all emerging or ongoing complex problems experienced in coastal Michigan that have been identified in...
