Tell Us About Yourself (required)

My affiliation
This best describes my primary affiliation and/or interest in GLOS (choose one):
Please select your affiliation Federal agency personnel State/provincial resource manager Municipal water manager Academic researcher Educator Commercial shipper / maritime interest Recreational boater Shoreline property owner Student General public Other

My location
Please select your location Illinois Indiana Michigan Minnesota New York Ohio Pennsylvania Wisconsin Canada U.S., other International

Waterbody of interest
Please select your waterbody (bodies) of primary interest. Hold the "Ctrl" (Control) button on your keyboard down while clicking to select multiple bodies. Please select no more than 3.

-- Please select your waterbody -- Lake Superior St. Marys River Lake Michigan Lake Huron St. Clair - Detroit rivers Lake Erie Niagara River Lake Ontario St. Lawrence River All

Survey
Please respond to the following items. All responses will be shared with and considered by the GLOS Steering Committee. Comments received by August 23, 2004, will be considered at the Steering Committee's next meeting.

1) The Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) framework focuses on 11 "subsystems" that address various areas of data needs and applications. Based on your needs and interests, please check your top 3 subsystems.

2) GLOS is designed to serve the needs of many user groups including the scientific community, resource managers, educators, recreational boaters, commercial maritime interests and municipal water managers.

For example, CoastWatch (www.coastwatch.msu.edu) provides Great Lakes surface water temperature data useful to sport and charter anglers via the Internet, while the COOL Classroom (www.coolclassroom.org) provides teachers and students with an opportunity to use coastal data in their classrooms.

Are there other user groups that might benefit from products from this initiative? And, if so, what services might GLOS provide?

Potential User Groups (based on your knowledge of regional needs and interests, please check your top 3 priorities)

Potential Uses / Services (based on your knowledge of regional needs and interests, please check your top 3 priorities)

3) Are there any specific monitoring/observations that you feel are needed but not currently collected or publicly accessible?

4) Are you satisfied with the reliability of current short- and long-term environmental predictions of Great Lakes water levels, waves, currents, water temperatures? Please explain why or why not?

5) Integration of information on the Internet is a key goal of GLOS. Are there other media that products should be designed for? Please check your top 3 preferences for how you would most like to receive GLOS information.

6) Please provide any additional comments or questions.