Catch of the Day
Mr. Great Lakes on climate education, dark skies and biodegradable plastics
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Mr. Great Lakes, Jeff Kart, discusses Climate Education Week, International Dark Sky Week and (barely) biodegradable plastics.
Climate
Free online course provides Great Lakes climate change knowledge
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison is offering a Massive Open Online Course addressing Great Lakes weather and climate.
Water
Climate affects how the Great Lakes grow and flow
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A recent report by the U.S. Geological Survey helps land managers cope with the seasonal changes resulting from climate change in the Lake Michigan basin.
Air
Great Lakes legal expert discusses challenge to EPA mercury rules
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Michigan’s challenge to EPA emissions rule lands in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Nearshore
New tool helps visualize how climate change could affect the Great Lakes
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A new web tool, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows how the Great Lakes would look in different climate change situations.
Land
Michigan farmers adjusting to climate change
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If you’ve found yourself putting on a sweater or light jacket on cool evenings this summer, you’ve probably wondered what’s going on with the weather. The polar vortex that visited us so harshly last winter made a return visit a few weeks ago, dropping temperatures below normal. It turns out that there’s at least one upside to climate change; one that could help our farm economy. At the end of June, the US Department of Agriculture published its crop acreage report. It showed a record number of acres of corn, soybeans and wheat were planted this spring in Michigan.
Land
Planted acres increase in region; warming climate among reasons
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It allows for earlier and longer growing season.
Climate
Animated satellite data shows record-setting Great Lakes ice
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The longest period of ice cover in the Great Lakes officially ended on June 6 — much to the relief of everyone who suffered post-traumatic stress from last year’s harsh winter. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] recently released a year’s worth of Great Lakes surface temperatures. The animation at right shows ice cover and temperature for one day each month of the year. The one below shows the same information for every day of the year. In the 40 years of collecting data there hasn’t been ice cover that has lasted this long, said Anne Clites, physical scientist for the NOAA.
Land
Decades-long research values ecosystem services to farming, environment
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The research recently reported in BioScience magazine also shows the public’s willingness to pay for such services.
Climate
Wisconsin scientists unveil climate change narratives for 2070
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Will it take a disaster to respond to climate change?
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers on Wednesday released a series of detailed science-based scenarios envisioning life in 2070 in the Madison area’s Yahara Watershed.
The idea is to help people envision the effects of climate change before it worsens.