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Cleanups planned for Coastweeks
The News-Messenger (9/2)
Ohio's 2008 Coastweeks observance will again focus on the preservation and protection of Lake Erie and its watershed through a variety of cleanup events along the shoreline and throughout its watershed.
Maritime Academy may hike maritime tuition up to 57%
Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/27)
Some of next year's students at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy could face tuition rate hikes of 50 percent or more.
Students build wind turbines
WTVG-TV Toledo (8/27)
Science students at Clay high school will soon have a way to measure the wind and how much power it can produce. This grant-funded project will provide data on how well turbines produce power in the changeable wind environment near the lake.
What's going on in your neighborhood this month? Meet other people and learn together at recreational and educational events! Our new dynamic calendar is updated daily with current educational events.
Did Lake Champlain become a Great Lakes in March of 1998?
from Taylor in Seaside, California
Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont proposed new legislation declaring Lake Champlain a Great Lake in 1998. The intent behind this proposal was to allow Vermont colleges to compete for the more than $50 million in research money under the National Sea Grant Program, which is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
However, the "Great Lakes" designation for Lake Champlain was not passed and there remains only 5 Great Lakes: Michigan, Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario. Lake Champlain is not hydrologically part of the Great Lakes system, and in fact is much smaller area-wise than a number of other lakes in the region, such as Lake St. Clair (between lakes Huron and Erie) and Lake of the Woods (on the northern Minnesota border).
Thank you for your question!
Answered on December 18, 2000