Around the Basin 2009-05-24 No comments yet

• Lake Michigan ferry makes its first trip of the season. http://tinyurl.com/phnaur 12:58:23
• PBS to air a series on the Great Lakes. http://tinyurl.com/p5vqmn 13:00:19
• Slow times at the Port of Milwaukee. http://tinyurl.com/ofdxfy 13:02:02
• Ontario elementary school students help in Atlantic salmon restoration project. http://tinyurl.com/o2sfwj 13:08:39

Around the Basin 2009-05-18 No comments yet

• Lake Michigan smelt harvests down. Commercial fishermen blame DNR. DNR blames zebra mussels. http://tinyurl.com/ojvs4u 09:55:43
• It’s lamprey spawning time in Michigan. http://tinyurl.com/pggbs8 09:58:05
• Cruise ship terminal under construction in Detroit. http://tinyurl.com/p7vyeq 12:04:52
• More on Detroit’s riverfront cruise ship terminal. http://tinyurl.com/ot5k3n 12:06:18

Great Lakes Solutions–Water Levels No comments yet

The Great Lakes from Space. Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are essentially one large body of water, connected at the Straits of Mackinac. The St. Clair River drains these upper lakes into Lake Ontario. Photo: SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

How much water do the Great Lakes need? As much as they can hold on to. Read more »

Around the Basin 2009-05-02 No comments yet

• Low demand sees Great Lakes freighters put up for storage. http://tinyurl.com/dmwoaz 18:44:08
• Obama’s Great Lakes cleanup plan expected some time next week. http://tinyurl.com/cpfvjy 18:45:39
• More on the St. Clair River report. Water levels on the upper lakes not lower because of dredging. http://tinyurl.com/cwzyvp 18:47:59
• Again with the St. Clair River. This time from a Canadian perspective. http://tinyurl.com/dcz75w 18:57:12
• Wow. Freya Hoffmeister just knocked off a 350 mile crossing of the Gulf of Carpentaria. http://tinyurl.com/cb2wux 19:42:20

Around the Basin 2009-04-30 No comments yet

• Ferry service starts up between Muskegon, MI and Milwaukee. http://tinyurl.com/cep3kt 11:41:48
• Great sea kayak instructional video clips to go along with Doug Cooper’s new book: Sea Kayak Handling. http://tinyurl.com/cx478s 13:00:40
• Cleanup success on Fighting Island near Windsor, Ontario. http://tinyurl.com/cd8ses 19:18:10

Around the Basin 2009-04-29 No comments yet

• Stimulus dollars to repair Saugatuck harbor. http://tinyurl.com/cnxnbm 09:11:14
• No federal funding for a new lock at the Soo. http://tinyurl.com/cl99cs 09:13:31
• Weather buoys back in Lake Michigan. http://tinyurl.com/c93kon 09:16:00
• Great Lakes shippers stunned by lack of funding for new Soo lock. http://tinyurl.com/cyv6ct 13:41:43
• Feds seize records in Crestwood, IL after allegations of tainted well coverup. http://tinyurl.com/d9t42e 22:53:55
• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel takes a look at the Soo locks rejection. http://tinyurl.com/ch53hh 23:00:55
• Harnessing ocean power to make electricity. http://tinyurl.com/d48s5d 23:13:00

Great Lakes Solutions–Zebra Mussels No comments yet

Zebra mussels removed from the Mississippi River. Photo: USFWS

Invasive zebra and quagga mussels have had a tremendous impact on the Great Lakes since they arrived in ballast water of ocean going ships. Here is a look at the fight to control these bothersome bivalves. Read more »

Around the Basin–April 12, 2009 No comments yet

• Big water footprint for biofuels. Fox News

• All done busting ice for the Great Lakes shipping season. Soo Today

• New wind turbine jobs in Michigan. AHN News

Around the Basin–April 10, 2009 No comments yet

• Quebec bans pesticide. Dow sues. Toronto Globe and Mail

• Spirogyra–a musical group or…a beach-mucking algae in Lake Huron. Chicago Tribune

• Slow start on the Duluth/Superior shipping season. Duluth News Tribune

• New water pipeline for Ontario communities. London Free Press

• New Berlin, Wisconsin tests the new Great Lakes Compact. The Isthmus

Around the Basin–April 7, 2009 No comments yet

• Green Bay hopes for some stimulus money to begin dredging soon. Green Bay Press-Gazette

• Opinion–Seaway not so great for the Great Lakes or the St. Lawrence River. Watertown Daily Times

• Thunder Bay pilot in a Cessna dodges F-16s before landing on a highway in Missouri. No kidding. Toronto Globe and Mail

• UW Madison freshman studies 150 years of Bayfield ice records and finds evidence for climate change. Star Tribune