NOAA GLERL and its partners conduct innovative research on the dynamic environments and ecosystems of the Great Lakes and coastal regions to provide information for resource use and management decisions that lead to safe and sustainable ecosystems, ecosystem services, and human communities.
NOAA’s Lake Erie Hypoxia forecast is now fully operational In the early 2000s, scientists from NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) teamed up with […]
New forecast tool provides advance warnings of low oxygen levels in Lake Erie Read More >
Blooms of toxic cyanobacteria can impact human and ecosystem health and have led to the death of pets and livestock. Providing accurate and frequent measurements of toxins associated with cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms (HABs) is important for public health and also can impact local economies. Traditional toxin sampling is ship or shore based, and requires several people to be involved and good weather conditions. A new system developed by NOAA and partners offers a robotic alternative that could solve many of the problems associated with traditional sampling and might help develop more detailed warning systems and forecasts for lake communities.
Can robots provide data on toxic cyanobacteria in lakes? Read More >
Emerging technology will allow scientists to better understand abundance and diversity of aquatic species The United States’s aquatic resources are a national treasure, a system
White House strategy to capitalize on the immense power of eDNA is unveiled Read More >
“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.”
Great Lakes ice coverage reaches historic low Read More >
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,
Why low ice coverage on the Great Lakes matters Read More >
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 >
