GLOS NEWS
The 2023 Annual Impact Report
First Published in the March 2024 GLOS newsletter Bringing the 2023 Annual Impact Report together this year was a beneficial...
2024 GLOS Annual Meeting | May 22, 2024
Join us for the 2024 Great Lakes Observing System Annual Meeting! 📅 May 22 📍 Windsor, Ontario...
Press Release: GLOS Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Boehme Testifies before House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries
For immediate release: Friday, March 22, 2024 Contact: info@glos.org GLOS Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Boehme Testifies before House Natural...
Sept. 17-19, 2024 | Lakebed 2030 Conference
Register now for the Lakebed 2030 conference Sept. 17-19, 2024, in Traverse City, MI!
CLOSED-Job Posting- Marine Geospatial Analyst
The Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) is a nonprofit that provides end-to-end data services that support science, policy, management and...
Support Lakebed 2030 Outreach
Image by NOAA and Voyis Over the past three years, Lakebed 2030 has grown from a grassroots effort by a...
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...
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...
ARCHIVED | 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...
Sept. 17-19, 2024 | Lakebed 2030 Conference
Register now for the Lakebed 2030 conference Sept. 17-19, 2024, in Traverse City, MI!
Support Lakebed 2030 Outreach
Image by NOAA and Voyis Over the past three years, Lakebed 2030 has grown from a grassroots effort by a...
ARCHIVED | 2023 | 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...
ARCHIVED | 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...
ARCHIVED | 2022 | Lakebed 2030 conference highlights mapping progress
Late last month, GLOS attended the Lakebed 2030 conference in Traverse City, MI. Hosted by Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) and...
Nov. 30 | Seagull Users Livestream
🕊️ As we wrap up this field season, we’re back with another Seagull Users Livestream on our YouTube, Twitter, or...
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,...
The 2023 Annual Impact Report
First Published in the March 2024 GLOS newsletter Bringing the 2023 Annual Impact Report together this year was a beneficial...
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...
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...
ARCHIVED | 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...
Find ice data
Satellite imagery can help scientists track ice coverage on the Great Lakes. This image shows ice coverage in 2009. Image...
GLOS-funded crowdsourced bathymetry is now live on a public database
In 2021, GLOS funded a project to create small “Mussel Kits” that could turn ordinary fish finders or other echo...
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...
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...
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...
ARCHIVED | 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...
NOAA awards $18.9M for harmful algal bloom research, monitoring
GLOS received $370,000 from the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) as part of a recent series of NOAA awards. NOAA...
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...