News by Topics - Monitoring
EPA announces Notice of Funding Opportunity to support the Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program
The EPA has announced a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) to conduct fish sample analysis in support of the Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program. The deadline to apply is March 14, 2025.January 13, 2025
New study on Mysis population trends across the Great Lakes from 1997 – 2019
Scientists recently published a new summary of long-term trends in Mysis populations across the Great Lakes. Mysis diluviana, a small crustacean also known as the opposum shrimp, is an important component of the offshore Great Lakes food web.
October 11, 2023
EPA scientists discuss 40 years of Great Lakes water quality monitoring on “Lake Effect” podcast
EPA Great Lakes National Program Office scientists Megan O’Brien and Matt Pawlowski were interviewed by reporter Susan Bence for WUWM’s podcast “Lake Effect.” In the interview, O’Brien and Pawlowski give Bence a tour of EPA’s Research Vessel Lake Guardian, explain how various sampling equipment is deployed, and discuss the different types of data collected while the GLNPO Summer Water Quality Survey is underway.
September 19, 2023
EPA’s 2023 Summer Survey of Great Lakes Water Quality and Biology Underway
The 2023 Summer Survey marks 40 years of long-term water quality and biological monitoring across the Great Lakes.
August 25, 2023
Taxonomic study of rare non-native zooplankton species Cyclops strenuus results in reclassification of earlier identifications of this species in the Great Lakes
EPA GLNPO Great Lakes Biology Monitoring Program cooperators at Cornell University reexamined zooplankton specimens identified as Cyclops strenuus from the St Marys River and from western Lake Erie. Their study reclassifies C. strenuus as two different non-native zooplankton species and resolves a long-standing debate regarding the identity of these rare Cyclops specimens in the Great Lakes.
August 4, 2022