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The Great Waters Research Collaborative is offering $1,825,000 to incentivize a project partnership between Great Lakes vessels and manufacturers of market-available, type-approved ballast water management system manufacturers. Proposals are due Feb. 11, 2021.

The St. Louis River Area of Concern is one step closer to delisting following completion of a contaminated sediment clean-up project at AZCON/Duluth Seaway Port Authority’s Slip in the St. Louis River Area of Concern. The project removed or capped over 55,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment.

The U.S. Forest Service is awarding nearly $4.5 million in grants to support 27 Great Lakes forest and coastal ecosystem restoration projects.

In New York, the Great Lakes Commission has worked to restore nearly two miles of shoreline and twenty acres of habitat at eight sites along the lower Buffalo River, supported by NOAA through Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ electric fish barriers deter the movement of Asian carp and other aquatic nuisance species from passing through the Chicago Sanitary Ship Canal and into the Great Lakes. But did you know there were a handful of other sites identified along the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin divide as having a moderate likelihood for the transfer of species between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and partners came together to create a barrier at one of these sites that would effectively prevent the transfer of invasive carp species between basins.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed construction for the final phase of the Fort Sheridan Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration project. The goal for this project is to bring resilience and connectivity to coastal natural habitats and to restore historical native plant communities along 1.5 miles of Lake Michigan.

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.