GLOS in the News

January 2026

• Interlochen Public Radio – Communities, researchers measure ice thickness on the Great Lakes by Vivian La

 

• Great Lakes Now – This Breakaway Buoy Explored Lake Michigan’s Icy Waves by Adam Fox-Long in Sorting Fish and a Breakaway Buoy

November 2025

• Wisconsin Public Radio – 50 years later, Edmund Fitzgerald sinking leaves lasting effects on families, forecasting by Danielle Kaeding

 

• Great Lakes Now – How the Edmund Fitzgerald Changed Great Lakes Shipping by Matt Winne

October 2025

• Buffalo State University – Five things to know about Buffalo State’s Great Lakes Center

September 2025

• UMich LSA Biological Station – U-M Biological Station Helps Connect Great Lakes to AmeriFlux Network by Chrissy Billau

 

• Duluth News Tribune – How science has prevented (so far) another shipwreck like Edmund Fitzgerald by Jay Gabler

July 2025

• The Detroit News – Shipping industry, boaters fear risks of cuts to federal Great Lakes programs by Carol Thompson

 

• Click on Detroit | Local 4 – NOAA cuts could impact Great Lakes programs

 

• NexSens Technology – What are harmful algal blooms? Unpacking Green Bay’s water quality | NexSens Case Study

June 2025

• The Daily Mining Gazette – Buoys deployed in Superior: Located near Marquette, Munising and Grand Marais by Bud Sargent

 

• University of Wisconsin Milwaukee School of Freshwater Science – School of Freshwater Sciences deploys data buoys for public use in Lake Michigan to NOAA Staff Have Been Busy Installing Mooring Buoys for Public Use Across America

 

• The Newberry News – Lake Superior safety buoys deployed

 

• Outdoor News – Federal funding cuts threaten popular Dunkirk Buoy program used by New York’s boaters, anglers by Bill Hilts Jr

May 2025

• Associated Press – Trump budget would cut ocean data and leave boaters, anglers and forecasters scrambling for info by Todd Richmond

• Observer Today – Dunkirk Buoy brings science, fishing together by Forrest Fisher

• The News Herald – HARTIG: ‘Chainsaw’ approach to cuts could impact Great Lakes by John Hartig

• Spectrum News – Federal budget proposal puts Great Lakes research at risk, raising concerns as fishing season starts by Kelli Milan

• Ottawa News Network – Trump Administration’s planned budget cuts threaten key Lake Michigan data network by Heather Vandyke

• Spartan Newsroom – Budget cuts threaten Great Lakes weather forecasting by Daniel Schoenherr 

• WEMU 89.1 – Combatting climate change amid changes in federal policy and funding by David Fair, Lisa Wozniak

• The Sun Times News – Local Federal Employee Speaks Out on Federal Budget Cuts by Matt Rosentreter

• National Marine Sanctuaries – Sentinels of the Lake: How Data Buoys Increase Safety and Support Communities of Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan by Daniel Wroblewski

• Bridge Michigan – Great Lakes slightly colder than usual ahead of summer by Emilio Perez Ibarguen

April 2025

• FLOW – Will Budget Cuts Trim Great Lakes’ “Eyes and Ears”? by FLOW Editor

• MLive – Severe cuts at NOAA would kill Great Lakes data buoy network by Garret Ellison

• Duluth News Tribune – Proposed NOAA cuts put Great Lakes research, safety at risk, experts say by Jimmy Lovrien

• WWMT | News Channel 3 – Trump budget proposes 27% cut to NOAA, with research dismantled by Will Haenni

• Wisconsin Public Radio – Wisconsin and Great Lakes research could suffer under proposed cuts to NOAA by Danielle Kaeding

• Today’s Northumberland – Researchers Launch from Cobourg to Study the Great Lakes by Pete Fisher

• Michigan Technological University – Charting New Waters in Great Lakes Mapping by Rick White

March 2025

• Bayshore Broadcasting – Municipal Innovation Council Ends In Bruce County by Claire McCormack

February 2025

• The Ticker – This Nonprofit Wants Your Help Measuring Great Lakes Ice Cover by Craig Manning

• Grist – Research on the Great Lakes goes ahead amid funding chaos by Izzy Ross

• Interlochen Public Radio – Researchers are fishing for a clearer picture of the Great Lakes ice by Izzy Ross

January 2025

• Discover Magazine – How Mapping the Seafloor Benefits Science and Safety by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Record number of Lake Michigan shipwreck discoveries by Caitlin Looby

• WCMU Public Media – Push to map the Great Lakes floor continues by Kylie Sczepanski

December 2024

• Wisconsin Public Radio – Great Lakes mapping effort supports resilience  by Danielle Kaeding

• Environmental Monitor – Monitoring Lake Erie’s Eastern Basin: Building Long-Term Data and Real-Time Public Solutions by Samantha Baxter

• WCMU Public Media – Great Lakes researchers ask for help from ice fishing community by Kylie Sczepanski

November 2024

• Chicago Tribune – We don’t know what’s at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Climate change demands we find out by Karina Atkins

• CityNews Toronto – Project underway to map floor of Great Lakes by David Zura

• Environmental Monitor – Green Water in Green Bay: Using Data Buoys to Monitor the Southern Bay by Samantha Baxter

October 2024

• AP – Push to map Great Lakes bottom gains momentum amid promises effort will help fishing and shipping by Todd Richmond

• PBS: Great Lakes Now – This Tech Reveals the Secret Lives of Fish as part of Deep Dives and Rising Waters by Kathy Johnson

• FOX 17 – ‘Thousands’ of shipwrecks could be found by mapping Great Lakes bottom, Michigan company says by Sam Landstra

• CBC – Toxic algal blooms threaten Canadian drinking water, but scientists are developing a way to protect against the harmful slime by Jaela Bernstein and accompanying video coverage

• The Alpena News – Thunder Bay lake data input session Thursday by Darby Hinkley

September 2024

• Upword – Autonomous vessel to map the Great Lakes by Paula McCambridge

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Robotic ship searches waters off Michigan’s U.P. for clues into plane’s 1968 disappearance by Caitlin Looby