Tuesday, July 18, 2023
CMU Biological Station submarine expedition Cliff Redus pilots his submarine off the coast of Beaver Island on Saturday, July 15, 2023. Innerspace Science submarine owners volunteered their submarines to assist Central Michigan University professor Don Uzarski with water monitoring and ecological surveys. (Neil Blake | MLive.com)Thursday, July 13, 2023
Water flowing into the Poe Lock, the largest chamber of the Soo Locks. Photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – Explosives will be used as work progresses toward the construction of a new superlock at the Soo Locks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, officials said. During a meeting Monday,Monday, July 10, 2023
Harmful algal blooms are forming in some parts of Lake Erie earlier than typical. Satellite images released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA on Wednesday (July 5) show cyanobacterial blooms forming along coastal areas. NOAA satellite images from July 5, 2023 show harmful algal blooms forming in the westernFriday, July 7, 2023
Featured image: This aerial photograph of Middle Island in Lake Huron shows the roughly 20 yard deep and 100 yard wide Middle Island sinkhole. (Photo credit: Bopi Biddanda and Scott Kendall, GVSU) Earlier this year, a group of Michigan scientists published a study in The Journal of Great Lakes Research entitled “Extant matFriday, June 30, 2023
Study suggests using the European model for short-sea shipping to reduce the amount of cargo traveling by road between the U.S. and Canada A new study proposes reducing the reliance on trucking in transporting goods between the U.S. and Canada by increasing short-sea shipping on the Great Lakes. The study authored by FluidTuesday, June 27, 2023
It's officially Mayfly season. A photo posted by the Interlake Steamship Company shows mayflies swarming a freighter in Toledo. It happened on the M/V Hon. James L. Oberstar in Toledo, according to the post. Mayflies have a brief adult life, according to Michigan State University, but will lay 4,000 to 8,000 eggs on the water'sThursday, June 22, 2023
News Photo by Darby Hinkley: The collaborative research team working in Thunder Bay includes, from left, Onur Bagoren and Anja Sheppard, of the University of Michigan, Mason Pesson, Corina Barbalata, and William Ard, of Louisiana State University, Jamey Anderson, of Michigan Technological University, and Katie Skinner, of theThursday, June 8, 2023
Cedarville, Michigan - Great Lakes Boat Building School (GLBBS) recently received a $10,000 donation from the Marine Leadership Alliance in support of their “Enhancing Education with Equipment” (EEE) Campaign. The funding is earmarked for creating an engine test tank area in their new facility that will become the MLAThursday, June 1, 2023
The U.S. Geological Survey watches from a boat as the Archimedes screw is installed. (Courtesy of Scott Miehls) In the course of 11 days, a device dating back to 234 B.C. successfully captured 704 fish and lifted them into a collection basket as part of a project to determine if the method could be used in the future to moveWednesday, May 24, 2023
A patrol boat speeds past Miners Castle at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior near Munising, Mich., May 18, 2022. (Garret Ellison | MLive) Lake Superior’s water level rose significantly last month, and continues a larger than average rise this month. There is a scenario that could put Lake Superior very near a
