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Take the Survey on Great Lakes Storms and Climate Events

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March 4 2021

A team at Indiana University is developing guidance to help communities plan for and adapt to climate change in the Great Lakes. The focus is on helping people prepare for that early period in a flood event before local, state or federal help is available.

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IJC’s International Watersheds Initiative Helps Study Great Lakes Flooding and Ecosystems

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January 19 2021
Developing sound recommendations for a shared a body of water is a lot like following a recipe: if you don’t know how ingredients will interact, the results can end up falling short of what you were expecting.
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Assessing Progress: Climate change and algal blooms in Lake Superior

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January 19 2021

“Just because Lake Superior is big doesn’t mean it can’t change ... in fact, it’s one of the fastest-changing lakes in the world,” according to Dr. Jay Austin, a professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth Large Lakes Observatory.

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Indigenous Organization Helps Prepare for Climate Change on Public Lands

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January 18 2021

Long held up as the coldest and the cleanest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior is nonetheless seeing the impacts of climate change.

A letter from Henry Lickers

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January 18 2021
Canadian IJC Commissioner Henry Lickers authored this article for the fall 2020 edition of the Lakes Letter, a publication of the International Association for Great Lakes research. It’s reprinted here with permission. See also, the IJC’s series on Indigenous Knowledge.

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