“We’ve crossed a threshold in which we are at a historic low for ice cover for the Great Lakes as a whole,” says GLERL’s Bryan Mrockza, a physical scientist. “We have never seen ice levels this low in Mid-February on the lakes since our records began in 1973.”
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Many people have been concerned about the low ice coverage that has been observed and recorded in the last few years on the Great Lakes,
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For a long time now, scientists have wanted to know more about what happens under the ice of the Great Lakes each winter, but getting
Robots give NOAA a peek under the ice of the Great Lakes Read More >
This year, Kristen Schepel from NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory is participating in an employee exchange (known as a detail) with the U.S Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Washington, D.C. Her assignment: Help patent examiners and others at the USPTO understand climate change and the need for innovations that can help predict and measure its impacts.
Kristen Schepel: Changing the climate for innovation Read More >
NOAA recently announced that Deborah Lee, director of NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), is being credentialed as an Envision Sustainability Professional by the
GLERL Director Deborah Lee receives credential in sustainable infrastructure Read More >
“The knowledge gained from this research will inform decision makers and stakeholders regarding potential future approaches to marine carbon dioxide removal in our oceans and lakes. We will need many mitigation tools to build a climate-ready future.”
New system uses seawater to capture and store CO2 Read More >
Ice coverage has reached a record low in the Great Lakes for this time of year.
Low ice on the Great Lakes this winter Read More >
