GLOS NEWS
Potential Impacts to Great Lakes Water Data and Safety
Reason for concern We want to let our community know about some concerning news regarding NOAA, the Integrated Ocean Observing...
McClain, Dingell Reintroduce Great Lakes Mapping Act
Tuesday April 8, 2025 Today, Representatives Lisa McClain (MI, 9) and Debbie Dingell (MI, 6) reintroduced the Great Lakes...
The 2024 Annual Impact Report
In the 2024 edition of our Annual Impact Report, we brought together summaries of our projects, the numbers, the success stories,...
Webinar – Community Ice Thickness Data Collection
Community Ice Thickness Data Collection starting at GLOSGLOS is starting a community ice thickness data collection project to help regional...
CLOSED | Job Posting – Grants Management Specialist
The Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) is hiring a Grants Management Specialist as a Part-Time Contractor. GLOS provides real-time and...
Ice Thickness Data Workshop – Green Bay
Winter is quickly approaching and GLOS is kicking off a new project to help improve regional ice predictive models. Currently,...
Missing NCAR Plane in Lake Superior: ASV Demo and Livestream
In 1968, a National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) plane carrying two pilots and a graduate student disappeared over Lake...
Indigenous Great Lake Network initiative Update
Barbara Wall leads the welcome at the IGLNi gathering at the Ojibway Nature Center, Windsor, Ontario.The Indigenous Great Lakes Network...
IOOS Spring Meeting – 2024
Twice a year, representatives from each of the Integrated Ocean Observing System’s (IOOS) 11 regional nodes gather together to share...
Catching Up with Russ Green at the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary
One of the sanctuary spotter buoys deployed off Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Credit NOAA/WSCNMS By Katie Rousseau, Smart Great Lakes Liaison...
Monitoring data from two research reserves is now live on Seagull, with a buoy on the way
Sampling Old Woman Creek using a sonde, which contains several water quality sensors. Photo by Jade Bolinger. It started with...
ARCHIVED | May 8, 2023 | GLOS Annual Meeting + Seagull Workshop
Join us for the Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting and the Seagull Workshop! 📅 May 8 📍 Toronto, Ontario...
New light and temperature sensor arrays yield first year of data, soon available on Seagull
Published first in the GLOS newsletter Tim Johnson is a food web guy, but he’s also a lake monitoring guy....
Year-round moorings offer a glimpse at the winter life of Lake Superior over 17 years
A crew recovering the “kitchen sink mooring” from a test deployment this past October. Photo by Jay Austin, a researcher...
Great Lakes’ first high-frequency radar commissioned in St. Ignace
GLOS CEO Kelli Paige opened the meeting. GLOS and Michigan Technological University for years to bring high-frequency radar to the...
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee connects LoRaWAN buoy to Seagull
One of the perennial challenges for Great Lakes monitoring is getting good, reliable, low-cost data transmission. Many buoys connect to...
New Salmon Unlimited buoy begins monitoring waters near Racine, WI
When Ron Wesley, president of Salmon Unlimited Wisconsin, met with members of his organization, they had more in common than...
Check out these platforms that recently connected to GLOS
Updated: June 22, 2022 New platforms are being added to Seagull each week, thanks to generous observers invested in collecting...
Ice Thickness Data Workshop – Green Bay
Winter is quickly approaching and GLOS is kicking off a new project to help improve regional ice predictive models. Currently,...
Missing NCAR Plane in Lake Superior: ASV Demo and Livestream
In 1968, a National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) plane carrying two pilots and a graduate student disappeared over Lake...
IOOS Spring Meeting – 2024
Twice a year, representatives from each of the Integrated Ocean Observing System’s (IOOS) 11 regional nodes gather together to share...
2024 GLOS Annual Meeting | May 22, 2024
Join us for the 2024 Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting! 📅 May 22 📍 Windsor, Ontario...
Sept. 17-19, 2024 | Lakebed 2030 Conference
Register now for the Lakebed 2030 conference Sept. 17-19, 2024, in Traverse City, MI!
Support Lakebed 2030 Outreach
Image by NOAA and Voyis Over the past three years, Lakebed 2030 has grown from a grassroots effort by a...
🔴 April 5 | Seagull Users Livestream | Jessie, Katelynn, and the Pre-season
Wednesday, April 5 at 1 PM Eastern! You will get the chance to: ✔️ Hear the latest and what we're...
ARCHIVED | May 8, 2023 | GLOS Annual Meeting + Seagull Workshop
Join us for the Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting and the Seagull Workshop! 📅 May 8 📍 Toronto, Ontario...
March 1, 2023 | 🔴 Seagull Users Livestream
Use Seagull (seagull.glos.org)? This stream for you! You will get the chance to: ✔️ Hear the latest and what we're...
Webinar – Community Ice Thickness Data Collection
Community Ice Thickness Data Collection starting at GLOSGLOS is starting a community ice thickness data collection project to help regional...
Ice Thickness Data Workshop – Green Bay
Winter is quickly approaching and GLOS is kicking off a new project to help improve regional ice predictive models. Currently,...
GLAMR: ‘Omics Data in the Great Lakes
The Geomicrobiology Lab, supported by CIGLR and NOAA-GLERL through the NOAA ‘Omics program, is developing the Great Lakes Atlas for...
New: Seagull Media Production
We have been working on a new project. In place of the Seagull Users Livestream, the new Seagull Media project "What...
The 2023 Annual Impact Report
First Published in the March 2024 GLOS newsletter Bringing the 2023 Annual Impact Report together this year was a beneficial...
Historical observing data is available on Seagull
The past decade of observing data sent to GLOS has been available on Seagull for months, thanks to a platform-by-platform...
Seagull Users Livestream guests talk sharing data, climate change, and updates to the user interface
For this month’s Seagull Users Livestream, we got to talk with: Carolyn DuBois, Executive Director of the Water Program at...
ARCHIVED | May 8, 2023 | GLOS Annual Meeting + Seagull Workshop
Join us for the Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting and the Seagull Workshop! 📅 May 8 📍 Toronto, Ontario...
Year-round moorings offer a glimpse at the winter life of Lake Superior over 17 years
A crew recovering the “kitchen sink mooring” from a test deployment this past October. Photo by Jay Austin, a researcher...
Potential Impacts to Great Lakes Water Data and Safety
Reason for concern We want to let our community know about some concerning news regarding NOAA, the Integrated Ocean Observing...
McClain, Dingell Reintroduce Great Lakes Mapping Act
Tuesday April 8, 2025 Today, Representatives Lisa McClain (MI, 9) and Debbie Dingell (MI, 6) reintroduced the Great Lakes...
IGLNi Update: New Network Coordinator – Emma Pirie
In 2021, while she was completing her masters thesis research, Emma began her work with the Indigenous Great Lakes Network...
Lakebed 2030 Conference
For immediate release: Saturday, September 21, 2024 Contact: Samuel Johnson sam@glos.org Lakebed 2030 Conference TRAVERSE CITY, MI -...
Missing NCAR Plane in Lake Superior: ASV Demo and Livestream
In 1968, a National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) plane carrying two pilots and a graduate student disappeared over Lake...
Indigenous Great Lake Network initiative Update
Barbara Wall leads the welcome at the IGLNi gathering at the Ojibway Nature Center, Windsor, Ontario.The Indigenous Great Lakes Network...
Infrastructure funding provides millions for the Integrated Ocean Observing System
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) was signed into law in Nov. 2021 and includes $14 million to the Integrated Ocean...
ARCHIVED | May 8, 2023 | GLOS Annual Meeting + Seagull Workshop
Join us for the Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting and the Seagull Workshop! 📅 May 8 📍 Toronto, Ontario...
Read the GLOS 2022 Annual Report
2022 was an action-packed year, from launching our Seagull platform, to wrapping up a series of diverse mini-grant projects, to...
