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Smart Great Lakes

Today’s connected region has a chance to improve our understanding, use, conservation, and management of the Great Lakes.

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Lakebed 2030

Lakebed 2030 brings together new and existing high-density bathymetric data to create a map of the lakefloor that’s easy to use and open to everyone.

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Seagull

Made for the Great Lakes, GLOS is developing the Seagull platform to get lake information into the hands of more people than ever before. 

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The information given by these buoys is critical in our go/no go decision process.

“I work on [a rescue boat] owned and operated out of Mackinac Island.We depend on Buoy 45175 for real-time data on wave conditions and check it before every trip. The information given by these buoys is critical in our go/no go decision process.”

Anonymous User

Steering a boat

“I use the wave and wind data to plan boating. I usually boat between City Bay in North Hero and Butler Island. The buoy gives great information about local conditions.”

Scott

Ariel shot of a sailboat in the lake

“I really appreciate the water temp readings on [buoy] 45026 as it gives me a very good prediction of water clarity on a shipwreck located about a mile away from the buoy.”

Anonymous User

Underwater Shipwreck in Thunder Bay

Pretty much everyone I know who fishes for salmon uses the buoys religiously for that purpose.

“The temp profile is a very nice means to provide a starting point for temp thermoclines and possible depths to start running your downriggers based upon temp … Pretty much everyone I know who fishes for salmon uses the buoys religiously for that purpose.”

Anonymous User

Man casting a fishing line

See you in Chicago?

Glosapalooza is a chance for observers of all sorts to hear the latest from the Great Lakes Observing System, be inspired for what’s next, and connect with other water data lovers.

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Mockup of Seagull platform in a desktop and mobile phone

Seagull

Coming soon: An information technology platform built for the Great Lakes

GLOS is building Seagull to help connect people to the water like never before. A powerful, cloud-based platform, Seagull reimagines how connected data becomes information and insights in peoples’ hands. 

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