GLOS NEWS
CLOSED – Job Posting – Communications Specialist
The Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) is searching for an outgoing and self-motivated individual to serve as the Communications Specialist...
Historical observing data is available on Seagull
The past decade of observing data sent to GLOS has been available on Seagull for months, thanks to a platform-by-platform...
Sept. 19-21 | Lakebed 2030 Conference
Register now for the Lakebed 2030 conference Sept. 19-21 in Traverse City!
New Seagull Features June 2023: Pinning, sorting, and list view
Now on Seagull you can pin your favorite parameters, sort by data type, and view a list of all stations...
Monitoring data from two research reserves is now live on Seagull, with a buoy on the way
Sampling Old Woman Creek using a sonde, which contains several water quality sensors. Photo by Jade Bolinger. It started with...
Jennifer Boehme named new GLOS CEO, will begin in August
Last Friday, the Great Lakes Observing System board named Jennifer Boehme the new Chief Executive Officer. Jennifer has served on...
Seagull Users Livestream guests talk sharing data, climate change, and updates to the user interface
For this month’s Seagull Users Livestream, we got to talk with: Carolyn DuBois, Executive Director of the Water Program at...
🔴 April 5 | Seagull Users Livestream | Jessie, Katelynn, and the Pre-season
Wednesday, April 5 at 1 PM Eastern! You will get the chance to: ✔️ Hear the latest and what we're...
May 8, 2023 | GLOS Annual Meeting + Seagull Workshop
Join us for the Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting and the Seagull Workshop! 📅 May 8 📍 Toronto, Ontario...
Monitoring data from two research reserves is now live on Seagull, with a buoy on the way
Sampling Old Woman Creek using a sonde, which contains several water quality sensors. Photo by Jade Bolinger. It started with...
May 8, 2023 | GLOS Annual Meeting + Seagull Workshop
Join us for the Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting and the Seagull Workshop! 📅 May 8 📍 Toronto, Ontario...
New light and temperature sensor arrays yield first year of data, soon available on Seagull
Published first in the GLOS newsletter Tim Johnson is a food web guy, but he’s also a lake monitoring guy....
Year-round moorings offer a glimpse at the winter life of Lake Superior over 17 years
A crew recovering the “kitchen sink mooring” from a test deployment this past October. Photo by Jay Austin, a researcher...
Great Lakes’ first high-frequency radar commissioned in St. Ignace
GLOS CEO Kelli Paige opened the meeting. GLOS and Michigan Technological University for years to bring high-frequency radar to the...
Learn more about the HAB Observing Network project
Researchers work on an AUTOHOLO device, which uses holographic technology to image and detect harmful algal blooms. Photo by Aditya...
New Salmon Unlimited buoy begins monitoring waters near Racine, WI
When Ron Wesley, president of Salmon Unlimited Wisconsin, met with members of his organization, they had more in common than...
Check out these platforms that recently connected to GLOS
Updated: June 22, 2022 New platforms are being added to Seagull each week, thanks to generous observers invested in collecting...
Bima’azh project applies a two-eyed seeing approach to study populations of dikameg or lake whitefish
Lake whitefish or dikameg is a species native to the Great Lakes and has been culturally important to the people...
Annual Meeting, Seagull Workshop, and IAGLR Conference yield renewed connections, fresh ideas
Our May 8 Annual Meeting and Seagull Workshop gave our staff and board the chance to see many of you,...
Seagull Users Livestream guests talk sharing data, climate change, and updates to the user interface
For this month’s Seagull Users Livestream, we got to talk with: Carolyn DuBois, Executive Director of the Water Program at...
🔴 April 5 | Seagull Users Livestream | Jessie, Katelynn, and the Pre-season
Wednesday, April 5 at 1 PM Eastern! You will get the chance to: ✔️ Hear the latest and what we're...
May 8, 2023 | GLOS Annual Meeting + Seagull Workshop
Join us for the Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting and the Seagull Workshop! 📅 May 8 📍 Toronto, Ontario...
March 1, 2023 | 🔴 Seagull Users Livestream
Use Seagull (seagull.glos.org)? This stream for you! You will get the chance to: ✔️ Hear the latest and what we're...
Feb. 1, 2023 | Seagull Users Livestream
🗓️ Join us for the next Seagull Users Livestream! Feb. 1 1 PM Eastern On YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. You...
Sept. 28-30, 2022 | Lakebed 2030 Conference
Map the Great Lakes The objective of the Lakebed 2030 conference is to bring together science and research, policy, government,...
Great Lakes’ first high-frequency radar commissioned in St. Ignace
GLOS CEO Kelli Paige opened the meeting. GLOS and Michigan Technological University for years to bring high-frequency radar to the...
First Seagull Users Livestream a success
Tim and Shelby hosted the first Seagull Users Livestream on August 31. If you missed it, you can check out...
New Seagull Features June 2023: Pinning, sorting, and list view
Now on Seagull you can pin your favorite parameters, sort by data type, and view a list of all stations...
Monitoring data from two research reserves is now live on Seagull, with a buoy on the way
Sampling Old Woman Creek using a sonde, which contains several water quality sensors. Photo by Jade Bolinger. It started with...
Seagull Users Livestream guests talk sharing data, climate change, and updates to the user interface
For this month’s Seagull Users Livestream, we got to talk with: Carolyn DuBois, Executive Director of the Water Program at...
May 8, 2023 | GLOS Annual Meeting + Seagull Workshop
Join us for the Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting and the Seagull Workshop! 📅 May 8 📍 Toronto, Ontario...
Year-round moorings offer a glimpse at the winter life of Lake Superior over 17 years
A crew recovering the “kitchen sink mooring” from a test deployment this past October. Photo by Jay Austin, a researcher...
Seagull wins an International Design Award
Seagull recently won a silver International Design Award! To build Seagull's simple, user-first interface, GLOS brought on DIG, a human-centered...
Check out these platforms that recently connected to GLOS
Updated: June 22, 2022 New platforms are being added to Seagull each week, thanks to generous observers invested in collecting...
Observing Platform Repair/Equipment Funding | Request for Proposals
Organizational Background GLOS’ mission, as laid out in GLOS 2020-2025 Strategic Plan, is to provide end-to-end data services that support...
Due April 22 | 2022 Year-Round Observations Request for Proposals
UPDATE: GLOS Year-Round Observations request for proposals indicated that awards were expected to be announced on May 27th, 2022, or...
Infrastructure funding provides millions for the Integrated Ocean Observing System
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) was signed into law in Nov. 2021 and includes $14 million to the Integrated Ocean...
May 8, 2023 | GLOS Annual Meeting + Seagull Workshop
Join us for the Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting and the Seagull Workshop! 📅 May 8 📍 Toronto, Ontario...
Read the GLOS 2022 Annual Report
2022 was an action-packed year, from launching our Seagull platform, to wrapping up a series of diverse mini-grant projects, to...
Former CEO Kelli Paige grew and transformed GLOS over 12 years
Kelli Paige joined the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) in 2009 starting as a program manager, fresh off stints at...
NOAA awards $20.5 million for ocean and coastal resource management
The Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) recently received $3.7 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. NOAA put out this press...
CLOSED | Job Posting Announcement: GLOS Chief Executive Officer
The Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) is seeking to hire a Chief Executive Officer (CEO). GLOS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit...
Great Lakes’ first high-frequency radar commissioned in St. Ignace
GLOS CEO Kelli Paige opened the meeting. GLOS and Michigan Technological University for years to bring high-frequency radar to the...
Observing Platform Repair/Equipment Funding | Request for Proposals
Organizational Background GLOS’ mission, as laid out in GLOS 2020-2025 Strategic Plan, is to provide end-to-end data services that support...
Due April 22 | 2022 Year-Round Observations Request for Proposals
UPDATE: GLOS Year-Round Observations request for proposals indicated that awards were expected to be announced on May 27th, 2022, or...