Before the lecture, the Michigan Tech Center for Water and Society (CWS) sponsored a graduate poster session and competition to highlight the ongoing interdisciplinary research on water at Michigan Tech, looking toward the opening of the Great Lakes Research Center this summer. The poster session was held in the front atrium of the Dow Building. Cash prizes were awarded in 2 Poster categories:
Original Research (presentation of thesis or project research)
Coursework/Informational (presentation of coursework or literature based research)
"Full Scale Coastal Experiments… from Flying Buoys to Caribou Hunters" Dr. Guy Meadows, University of Michigan and Adjunct Professor in GMES at Michigan Tech, A Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences Seminar at Michigan Technological University on February 8, 2012.
Dr. Guy Meadows is Professor of Physical Oceanography, Department of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Professor of Physical Oceanography, Department of Atmospheric, Ocean and Space Sciences, and Academic Director of the M-STEM Academy, the College of Engineering; Video of Seminar on Vimeo
Dr. Mayer Earns Binational Award
Professor Alex Mayer (CEE) has received the Lake Superior Binational Forum's 2011 individual Environmental Stewardship Award for the US. The award honors "extraordinary achievements by ordinary people." The Lake Superior Binational Forum is composed of 12 Canadian and 12 American stakeholders, representing industrial, Tribal/First Nations, business, environmental, recreational, tourism, health, labor and academic interests.
Dr. Kerfoot on Chicago TV "Lake Invaders"
November 8, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Researchers are sounding a warning that there is a threat to the Great Lakes that may be worse than the Asian carp.
The new threat is literally eating up the basic building blocks of life in the lakes. Video courtesy of WLS ABC-TV Chicago
The new buoy that was launched on Friday July 9 is the first of three coastal monitoring buoys that will be deployed by Michigan Tech in an effort to collect data on weather, surface and subsurface water temperature, wind speed and direction, wave height and air temperature in the Great Lakes.
Painted in Tech black and gold, the buoy looks like a sized-down spacecraft. It contains remote sensing technologies developed by the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) in Ann Arbor and was designed by Guy Meadows of the University of Michigan (UM). Robert Shuchman, codirector of MTRI, and W. Charles Kerfoot, professor of biological sciences, are principal investigators on the buoy project.
The buoy, which was towed to a site approximately two miles northeast of the North Entry of the Keweenaw Waterway, is part of the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS). It is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) project involving six universities, including Michigan Tech. Other participants are UM, University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Ohio State University and the State University of New York.
Tech recently received a $1.4 million, one-year grant from the Great Lakes National Program Office of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and deploy the buoys.
The coastal monitoring program will be a counterpart to the deep-water buoy program that now collects data in deep waters far from the shoreline. The data collected by the coastal buoys will be transmitted to Tech and to NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab. It will become part of the National Data Buoy Center forecasting system, accessible by anyone via the Internet.
When a planned $25-million Great Lakes Research Center is built at Michigan Tech, the GLOS project is an example of the kind of interdisciplinary and collaborative research that will be conducted there.
State Authorizes Michigan Tech to Seek Construction Bids for Great Lakes Research Center
“As Michigan moves toward a blue-water economy, this Great Lakes Research Center will play a vital role in helping the state understand and use its freshwater resources,” said Michigan Tech President Glenn D. Mroz. “It is a strategic investment in the future, for the state and for the University.”
March 2009: Board Approves Great Lakes Research Center At its regular meeting today, Michigan Technological University's Board of Control approved issuing bonds totaling more than $24 million for capital improvement projects that include
* A student residential apartment complex: $16.5 million.
* Great Lakes Research Center: $6.8 million.
* Keweenaw Research Center expansion: $1 million.
The State of Michigan has approved $25 million for a Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Tech. The University's share of the project is 25 percent or $6,250,000. The Board authorized the University to proceed with final design and bidding for the research center on the campus waterfront and to issue revenue bonds to cover the University's share of the cost.
Link for Live Data from Lake Superior South Entry Buoy 45025
