Wayne State University
When planners sat down to put together designs for a parking lot in southeast Michigan, they intended for it to be the end of the road for cars traveling through a series of parks near Detroit. That’s why the parking […]
Read More →Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Monitoring the water quality of calm water bodies like lakes is a lot different than tracking that of a moving river. Things can be especially tough when heavy rains roll through and push flows and levels to new heights. But […]
Read More →Oklahoma Water Resources Board
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board is a governmental agency that looks to protect and improve the quality of life for the state’s citizens through managing Oklahoma’s water resources. That mission is achieved through many means, including providing financial assistance where […]
Read More →SUNY - ESF
Nine million people living around Lake Ontario depend on it for drinking water, according to the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. And many of those live in Upstate New York in towns like Oswego, Rochester and Syracuse. Far from going out into […]
Read More →Buffalo State University
Lake Erie’s western basin has received a lot of attention in recent years, as it has hosted large and toxic algal blooms that seem to come every summer. But there are still plenty of valuable environmental data to be gleaned […]
Read More →National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Just one year after the Toledo water crisis of August 2014, federal, state and local agencies have stepped up to make sure that cities around Lake Erie’s western basin continue to have access to safe drinking water. Much of assuring […]
Read More →Battelle
New Bedford Harbor is fed by the Acushnet River from the north and drains into the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Its steady flow is one of the reasons so many industrial plants set up shop along the harbor in […]
Read More →Miami University
The Lacawac Sanctuary and Biological Field Station overseen by Miami University’s Center for Aquatic and Watershed Sciences is home to lots of exciting research projects. Its namesake, Lake Lacawac, is part of the Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network, an expansive […]
Read More →Southern Illinois Power Cooperative
The Southern Illinois Power Cooperative operates a power plant near Lake of Egypt around the clock to produce energy for its customers. All the activity can stress the plant’s infrastructure, so key to continuing its operations is minimizing that stress […]
Read More →LimnoTech
Keeping an eye on the health of Lake Erie is a big job, involving a lot of agencies, organizations and monitoring equipment. The collective efforts help make the lake one of the best studied in the world, along with the […]
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