NOAA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative StoryMap highlights a decade of NOAA and partners’ work in the Great Lakes to improve fish passage, clean up contaminated debris, restore coastal wetlands, and remove invasive species. Take a virtual tour of some of the major restoration projects from across the region, from the Buffalo River in New York to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

A new paper demonstrates how measurements of deep chlorophyll maxima in the Great Lakes can be used to anticipate how ongoing trophic state changes may affect Great Lakes food webs.

The Great Lakes Commission has announced funding to reduce runoff of sediment, nutrients and other pollutants into the Great Lakes through the Great Lakes Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Program.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applications to monitor ecological conditions in the coastal wetlands of the Great Lakes. Approximately $10 million of GLRI funding will be made available to one applicant to implement the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program for five years. The deadline for applications is Oct. 26, 2020.

The GLRI has funded projects to promote recovery of the federally endangered Great Lakes Piping plover. In July 2020, four chicks that were reared in captivity by the Detroit Zoological Society were released at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.