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NOAA Announces 2024 Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training for Indigenous Communities Funding Opportunity
The NOAA Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) for Indigenous Communities 2024 Federal Funding Opportunity is now open. This competitive grant program supports meaningful, place-based educational experiences that incorporate Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2024.
December 8, 2023
Lower Fox Demonstration Farms Network celebrates 10-year anniversary
Farmers, conservation professionals and project partners gathered to commemorate and celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Lower Fox Demonstration Farms Network.
December 5, 2023
Phosphorus Optimal Wetland Demonstration Project opens doors to educational opportunities
On a warm and sunny day in September, 300 sixth graders from three schools near Defiance, Ohio joined a team from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, the City of Defiance, the Defiance Soil and Water Conservation District, General Motors, and the U.S. Geological Survey to experience a hands-on tour of the GLRI-funded Phosphorus Optimal Wetland Demonstration Project.
November 22, 2023
Using the Hydrolab, student scientists study their own environment
Indiana biology teacher keeps his Penn High School students actively engaged as scientists by equipping them with professional monitoring equipment to study their local water way.
November 9, 2023
NOAA Announces 2024 Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training Funding Opportunity
The NOAA Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) 2024 Federal Funding Opportunity is now open. This competitive grant program supports environmental and place-based educational programs in the Great Lakes watershed. The deadline for applications is February 29, 2024.
November 8, 2023
NOAA Announces 2024 Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training for Indigenous Communities Funding Opportunity
The NOAA Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) for Indigenous Communities 2024 Federal Funding Opportunity is now open. This competitive grant program supports meaningful, place-based educational experiences that incorporate Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2024.
November 8, 2023
Northland College highlights restoration of Fish Creek in northwestern Wisconsin
Northland College recently highlighted this restoration work in a video on the first two phases of its Sediment Reduction Project on North Fish Creek—the largest source of sediment flowing into Lake Superior’s Chequamegon Bay.
November 7, 2023
USDA Forest Service takes a partnership-based approach to aquatic habitat restoration
One stream at a time, Forest Service and partners are restoring aquatic habitat in Cadillac, Michigan through replacing undersized and poorly aligned culverts that block fish passage and contribute harmful sediment into streams and rivers.
November 3, 2023
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Largest Ever Clean-up under EPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to Address Milwaukee Area of Concern
Thanks to President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda, new funding agreement between EPA and partners will invest an estimated $450 million to cleanup of nearly two million cubic yards of contaminated sediments.
November 1, 2023
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