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Lake Huron to be home of long-term research program
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Lake Huron is the home of a new long-term research program starting this summer by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.
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Chicago woman continues charity row around Lake Michigan after sexual assault
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A Chicago woman who was sexually assaulted while rowing around Lake Michigan for charity insists on continuing the journey. Jenn Gibbons was 37 days into her journey to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer survivors when a man boarded her boat while she slept in the early morning hours July 22 and sexually assaulted her, police said.
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Environmental group launches campaign to unseat Michigan congressman
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The Washington Post reports that Michigan Congressman Dan Benishek, R-Crystal Falls, is one of the League of Conservation Voters’ “Flat Earth Five.”
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Two women take dugout canoe around Lake Michigan
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A dugout canoe isn’t a normal method of travel on the Great Lakes. But that hasn’t stopped Mary Catterlin, 23, and Amy Lukas, 23, from paddling one around the perimeter of Lake Michigan this summer.
The two left Indiana July 1, heading northwest in Mekeba, an 11-foot dugout canoe that Catterlin built in her parent’s backyard.
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Great Lakes tugs hit primetime
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Move over crabbers, Great Lakes tugboat captains have taken over primetime in Great Lake Warriors, a new series on the History Channel. For those of us who know the Great Lakes as a place for sun, sand and beach, Great Lakes Warriors shows us the lakes once summer’s over. It’s a whole different world out there. The show follows five captains braving winter storms on the Great Lakes to break up ice and tow barges into port. Their tugs battle wind gusts, choppy waters and weather that can change in an instant. The Great Lakes are a dangerous place to be a sailor. While their crashing waves may not seem as impressive as those barreling down on Alaskan crab boats in The Most Dangerous Catch, sobering underwater shots of perfectly preserved shipwrecks and one of a lone work boot sitting at the lake bottom show how perilous it can be out there.
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Robotic torpedo surveys water quality of Chicago beaches
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Researchers hauled a robotic torpedo out of Lake Michigan Thursday after it finished surveying 26 miles of Chicago shoreline. The bright yellow Ecomapper is a 5-foot long autonomous underwater vehicle with sensors in its nose.
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There’s a cougar in Marquette County, Michigan!
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Thanks to a trail camera photograph the Michigan Department of Natural Resources confirmed for the first time the presence of a cougar in Marquette County. It’s the 16th confirmation by the DNR of cougars in Michigan’s Upper Pennisula since 2008. At least two have been confirmed this year. Last year one cougar was spotted three different times in two different counties. The photo was released by the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy, a citizen group that restores Michigan wildlife habitats.
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Carp identity kit
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You may know about the Asian carp, but would you know one if you saw one?
This video distinguishes bighead, silver and grass carp (aka Asian carp) from their not-so-notorious brethren, common carp.
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Low water levels lead to more phragmites
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The lower the water in the Great Lakes, the larger the stretch of uncovered shoreline for phragmites to invade. And the longer water levels stay low, the more phragmites spreads.
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Organization challenges students to solve water problems
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Great Lakes college students are working with towns and cities to fix water problems thanks to a challenge called Water Pressures. Students identify a water problem, develop a solution with local officials.