October 1-2, 2026 Demo Day: September 30 South Haven, Michigan Great Lakes Water Safety Conference 2026 Register Why Attend? Schedule Speakers Venue Lodging Pricing Sponsors About the Conference The Great Lakes Water Safety Consortium is bringing the water safety community back together – in person…

The Great Lakes region contains more than 20% of the world’s surface freshwater and supports a culturally, economically, and ecologically significant seafood...

Great Lakes, Great Read is a “one book, one community” program designed to inspire passion and connection to the Great Lakes Watershed through reading. There is a need for greater education about the Great Lakes as an important natural resource. While approximately 34 million people in the U.S. and…

Multi-jurisdictional management of adult lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) requires characterizing seasonal dynamics of their spatial distributions…

Oil spills in the Laurentian Great Lakes are a growing concern coincident with aging infrastructure, and increased oil and gas production and transpor…

We’re excited to welcome Max Overdevest, Thomas Dunbar, and Josh Marion, as the Center for Water Policy’s new fellows! Max is the Center’s fourth Water Policy and Communications Fellow who is also pursuing his master’s degree in Freshwater Sciences and Water …

With little time left to avert a population collapse, officials plan to pluck whitefish from the mussel-infested Great Lakes and raise their offspring in hatcheries.

The Dive into History book club will feature books from regional authors and discussions with a maritime archaeologist.

Work on the critical carp barrier was halted in late July. On Wednesday, the White House lifted the stop-work order.

With coordinating support from UW–Madison's Wisconsin Sea Grant, the East River Collaborative brings together The Nature Conservancy, NEW Water and local governments to build a more resilient East River watershed.

The National Water Availability Assessment reports provide synthesis and interpretation of water availability in the past, present, and future.

ALT: Man Canoeing on Lake with Beer

Encounter rate models are important tools for evaluating and estimating trophic interactions between species. While encounter rate parameters have bee…

Icy winters in the Great Lakes tend to be followed by late onset of summer stratification and cool surface waters the subsequent summer. This has, in …

The ecological function of Netley Marsh, a lacustrine fringe wetland situated between the Red River and Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, has undergo…