After a population crash around 2015, Chinook salmon numbers have rebounded, but recent data suggests another shift may be occurring. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
After a population crash around 2015, Chinook salmon numbers have rebounded, but recent data suggests another shift may be occurring. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Tags
Great Lakes Commission, crash, Detroit, Free, Great Lakes, lakes, May, Population
Source

By Julia Belden

An Alanson-raised author whose book on Ernest Hemingway’s ties to Northern Michigan explains the region’s influence on the novelist’s work. The book “Picturing Hemingway’s Michigan,” has just been released in paperback.

The post Book explores Hemingway’s experiences ‘up north’ first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

By Julia Belden

An Alanson-raised author whose book on Ernest Hemingway’s ties to Northern Michigan explains the region’s influence on the novelist’s work. The book “Picturing Hemingway’s Michigan,” has just been released in paperback.

The post Book explores Hemingway’s experiences ‘up north’ first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.
Tags
Great Lakes Echo, Authors, Boston, Chicago, council, Driving, Education, Environment, Features, first, Fishing, found, funding, Great Lakes, History, home, lake, lakes, learn, man, Michigan, north, northern michigan, Paris, Region, remains, Remembered, school, summer, support, third, Tourism, university, work
Source

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is reminding ice fishermen that there are only a few times and locations where it’s legal to catch lake sturgeon — and they should […]
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is reminding ice fishermen that there are only a few times and locations where it’s legal to catch lake sturgeon — and they should […]
Tags
Great Lakes Commission, Department, fish, lake, lake sturgeon, lakes, Michigan, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, winter
Source

Lake Superior State University is expanding its Great Lakes research capacity through a $3 million donation to support the university’s Center for Freshwater Research and Education in Sault Ste. Marie, […]
Lake Superior State University is expanding its Great Lakes research capacity through a $3 million donation to support the university’s Center for Freshwater Research and Education in Sault Ste. Marie, […]
Tags
Great Lakes Commission, Education, funding, Great Lakes, lake, Lake Superior, lakes, Michigan, Research, support, university
Source

Researchers say the world has entered an era of global ‘water bankruptcy’—a point where many rivers, lakes, aquifers, and glaciers have been pushed past their capacity to recover. This finding […]
Researchers say the world has entered an era of global ‘water bankruptcy’—a point where many rivers, lakes, aquifers, and glaciers have been pushed past their capacity to recover. This finding […]
Tags
Great Lakes Commission, aquifers, Great Lakes, groundwater, lakes, rivers, Snow, Water, World
Source

By Bauyrzhan Zhaxylykov

New U-M survey finds only about 5% of rural Michigan residents say they would choose an electric vehicle as their next car. Researchers attribute much of that reluctance to misinformation about the availability of public chargers and the cost of EVs and replacement batteries. The Whitmer administration is pushing to expand electric vehicle use to meet climate and clean energy goals.

The post Why Michigan’s rural residents are reluctant to drive electric vehicles first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

By Bauyrzhan Zhaxylykov

New U-M survey finds only about 5% of rural Michigan residents say they would choose an electric vehicle as their next car. Researchers attribute much of that reluctance to misinformation about the availability of public chargers and the cost of EVs and replacement batteries. The Whitmer administration is pushing to expand electric vehicle use to meet climate and clean energy goals.

The post Why Michigan’s rural residents are reluctant to drive electric vehicles first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.
Tags
Great Lakes Echo, Authors, Batteries, charge, charging, clean energy, climate, Community, Department, Driving, Electric vehicles, Energy, Environment, EV Charging, ev charging infrastructure, EVs, fall, federal, first, found, Great Lakes, Gretchen Whitmer, Health, help, home, Information, Infrastructure, Investment, lakes, Lead, lithium, local, logistics, Manufacturing, May, Michigan, mining, misinformation, National, nature, new, plan, play, Policy, Recycling, remains, report, rural, Rural Michigan, study, Survey, sustainable, Transportation, university, University of Michigan, vehicle, who, winter
Source

A new study examines the uniqueness of work that research centers conduct in the Great Lakes region, highlighting their importance amid dramatic changes in federal funding.

The post Research centers in the Great Lakes region change the scope of global freshwater ecology first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

A new study examines the uniqueness of work that research centers conduct in the Great Lakes region, highlighting their importance amid dramatic changes in federal funding.

The post Research centers in the Great Lakes region change the scope of global freshwater ecology first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.
Tags
Great Lakes, Great Lakes Echo, Research, Water, Algae, Algae Blooms, body, Canada, changes, Community, Department, development, Diversity, Duluth, Education, Events, federal, first, fish, fisheries, Food, found, funding, help, Indigenous, industry, Information, invasive, Invasive Species, job, lake, Lake Superior, lakes, local, Michigan, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota, money, new, Oil, Ontario, Other, project, Region, saw, Science, Students, study, support, trump, Trump Administration, United States, university, Water, water resources, work
Source

Michigan researchers have gone back in time to get a picture of how ice cover on the Great Lakes has evolved since the late 19th century. Using historical temperature records […]
Michigan researchers have gone back in time to get a picture of how ice cover on the Great Lakes has evolved since the late 19th century. Using historical temperature records […]
Tags
Great Lakes Commission, Great Lakes, lakes, Michigan, Region, US, Weather, Wisconsin, wxpr
Source

Fisheries researchers are experimenting with stocking Great Lakes whitefish in a northern Michigan river to halt the crash of that population. Read the full story by MLive.
Fisheries researchers are experimenting with stocking Great Lakes whitefish in a northern Michigan river to halt the crash of that population. Read the full story by MLive.
Tags
Great Lakes Commission, crash, fisheries, Great Lakes, lakes, Michigan, northern michigan, Population, river, whitefish
Source

Ice on the Great Lakes, and Lake Superior specifically, is a great way to measure climate for the region. The last time Lake Superior completely froze over was 30 years […]
Ice on the Great Lakes, and Lake Superior specifically, is a great way to measure climate for the region. The last time Lake Superior completely froze over was 30 years […]
Tags
Great Lakes Commission, climate, Climate change, Great Lakes, lake, Lake Superior, lakes, Minnesota, Region, US
Source