Collection of research summaries from expert lake scientists around the world.
European frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L.) is an invasive floating plant in North American water bodies. The species escaped in 1939 from a Botanical Garden in Ottawa, Canada and had reached[…]
Visit the majority of beaches on the Great Lakes and you’ll find plastic debris, and not just on public beaches in large cities. Even Lake Superior has visible plastic debris[…]
Oil and gas exploration in remote Arctic regions has many inherent challenges. Foremost among these is the need to develop strategies to dispose of wastes associated with the drilling of[…]
Non-native alewives have been implicated as contributors to the inability to reestablish native lake trout in the Laurentian Great Lakes. In lakes Huron, Michigan, and Ontario, where alewives have been[…]
Spring 2025 Environmental Monitor Available NowMay 7, 2025
Research Brief: CyanoHABs Forecasting in Satellite Monitored LakesMay 5, 2025
Supplying Seattle’s Drinking Water: Using Data Buoys to Monitor the Cedar River Municipal WatershedApril 30, 2025
Research Brief: Threats to High-Mountain Lakes in the AlpsApril 28, 2025
Research Brief: Measuring Climate-Related Shifts in Lake EcosystemsApril 21, 2025