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A waterfall runs over red and gray rocks. Evergreen trees line the fall’s edges.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Lakeside Sandstones Hold Key to Ancient Continent’s Movement

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 18 August 202518 August 2025

Using paleomagnetic samples collected along the shores of Lake Superior, a new study illuminates the movement of a billion-year-old paleocontinent as it crept south toward a tectonic collision.

Environmental data buoy at Granite Island Light Station, a Great Lakes Evaporation Network site on Lake Superior.
Posted inScience Updates

Predicting a Great Lake's Response to a Warm Winter

by J. D. Lenters, P. D. Blanken and B. Kerkez 11 November 201618 August 2025

The Superior Challenge Summit: Forecasting El Niño's Impact on the World's Largest Lake; Ann Arbor, Michigan, 17–19 May 2016

High waves buffet Michigan’s Grand Haven Lighthouse, located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.
Posted inScience Updates

Water Levels Surge on Great Lakes

by A. D. Gronewold, A. H. Clites, J. Bruxer, K. W. Kompoltowicz, J. P. Smith, T. S. Hunter and C. Wong 17 March 201518 August 2025

The recent 2-year surge represents one of the most rapid rates of water level change on the Great Lakes in recorded history and marks the end of an unprecedented period of low water levels.

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