“The Great Lakes generate ($)6 trillion to America’s GDP and support over 51 million jobs, yet we have barely scratched the surface of understanding the depths of the lakes,” said McClain, a ...

Blooms occur in Lake Erie’s western basin, Lake Michigan’s Green Bay and Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay. North America’s Great Lakes are the largest source of fresh surface water in the world. They are ...

Researchers explore climate and hydrologic change across the Great Lakes region in North America and other transboundary ...

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 ...

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, giving navigators new depth findings that would improve ...

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 ...

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 ...

As North America shifted away, the site of the modern-day Great Lakes passed over the Cape Verde hot spot, Li found. When ocean hot spots interact with the planet’s surface, it usually results ...