The Great Lakes Observing System is facing potential shutdown of its real-time data network of buoys and meteorological towers under a fiscal 2026 Trump administration budget proposal that cuts ...

The New York Great Lake Research Consortium (GLRC) has members from both private and public universities located across New York State with interests in Great Lakes issues. Using funding provided by ...

Data from Great Lakes buoys are processed at the Great Lakes Observing System, or GLOS — a nonprofit organization housed in NOAA’s Ann Arbor lab — then made public on the Seagull website.

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) have four buoys now in place on the Great Lakes which inform scientists, weather forecasters, anglers, boaters, paddlers, surfers, swimmers and educational programs ...

According to the Great Lakes Observing System, roughly 11 million meteorological observations are shared with the National Weather Service annually to inform public forecasts and weather alerts.

Ice collects along the shore of Lake Michigan as temperatures were in the single-digits for most of the day on Feb. 17 in Chicago. As it stands, almost all monitoring of the Great Lakes is done ...

A warm start to the winter season has left the Great Lakes virtually ice-free and with their lowest ice cover to kick off a new year in at least 50 years. On New Year’s Day, only 0.35% of the ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Severe cuts proposed at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would shutter a Great Lakes data network which aids fishermen and helps forecast threats ...