The organization has been pushing since 2018 to create high-resolution maps of all five Great Lakes bottoms, but that's a daunting task. The lakes cover 94,250 square miles — an area larger than ...

The Great Lakes map would provide fuller images of bottom features that have changed in the last 50 years due to erosion and shifting sands, giving navigators new depth findings that would improve ...

A couple sits on a beach near Lake Erie, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Oregon, Ohio. An effort to map the bottom of the Great Lakes is gaining momentum amid promises that it will help ...

The Great Lakes map would provide fuller images of bottom features that have changed in the last 50 years due to erosion and shifting sands, ...

The Great Lakes Observing System estimates mapping all five lakes will cost $200 million. The money would be spent on a combination of advanced sound and light detection technologies over ...

Michigan, often associated with its borders along four of the Great Lakes, has over 11,000 inland lakes measuring more than five acres. If smaller water bodies are included, this number leaps to ...

An effort to map the bottom of the Great Lakes is gaining support due to its potential benefits for safety and environmental management.

Editor’s note • This Great Salt Lake Collaborative story is part of day one of our series, “At water’s edge: Searching for solutions at the Great Salt Lake’s sister lakes across the ...

The organization has been pushing since 2018 to create high-resolution maps of all five Great Lakes bottoms, but that’s a daunting task. The lakes cover 94,250 square miles (244,106 square ...

Only 15 per cent of the lakes' bottom has been mapped, according to the Great Lakes Observing System. The organization has been pushing since 2018 to secure funding to map the entire lakebed in ...