Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC) Description
The Great Lakes Research Center will provide state-of-the-art laboratories to support research on a broad array of topics. Faculty from many departments across campus will collaborate in conducting interdisciplinary research relating to air-water interactions, biogeochemistry, hydrodynamics and sediment transport, fisheries, invasive species and food web relationships, low impact development, and storm-water management. The Center for Science and Environmental Outreach will provide K12 student, teacher, and community education/outreach programs utilizing the GLRC’s Extension and Limnology Teaching Labs. The GLRC also contains a boathouse and convenient docking facility, providing a year-round home for Michigan Tech’s research vessel, the Agassiz.
The Great Lakes Research Center features public spaces where visitors will have an opportunity to observe visualizations of global environmental research via NOAA’s Science-on-a-Sphere, simulations of Lake Superior current patterns and water quality conditions on a 3D Geowall, real-time data output from vessels at sea and offshore monitoring stations, and unique underwater views delivered by remotely-operated vehicles. The Low Impact Development research team will operate a rain garden, green roof, and constructed wetland remediation demonstration area on the GLRC site. A mesocosm research system, featuring several 300-gallon outdoor fish tanks will permit researchers to conduct ecosystem manipulation studies under natural conditions of light and temperature.
The Great Lakes Research Center also includes several large and small conference rooms supporting small group collaboration on-site, as well as video-conferencing with colleagues across the state and world. In addition, the GLRC boasts a 100-seat auditorium with ample space for receptions and other events with grand views of the Keweenaw Waterway as a backdrop.
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COMING UP
Celebrate Lake Superior Day in Copper Harbor Sunday
Ride the Waves with GM on Michigan Tech's
Research Vessel Agassiz this summer!
Summer Institutes for Teachers Begin June 24, based at the Great Lakes Research Center and Center for Science & Environmental Outreach
Summer Youth Programs Begin June 23
NEWS
Public Learns how Scientists Assess the Health of the Great Lakes Aboard MTU's research vessel Agassiz at the Strawberry Fest 2013
SOAR with ROVs on Isle Royale:The SOAR team had the opportunity to visit Isle Royale National Park
in the summer of 2012. The team brought along an ROV and a manual
for the park rangers, which taught them how to use and maintain the ROV. Video
US Geological Survey's Research Vessel Sturgeon is at Michigan Tech to help scientists from the Great Lakes Research Center conduct three research missions. See more RV Sturgeon Photos and Waterfront view Michigan
Tech Campus June 14, 2013
with RV Sturgeon Video Clip and More photos "Great Lakes Research" on Flickr
Guy Meadows, director of Michigan Tech's Great Lakes Research Initiative, was interviewed on public radio about his work with a research task force from multiple institutions studying dangerous nearshore currents--often called rip currents--in the Great Lakes. The program aired on Interlochen Public Radio and on Michigan Radio's Environment Report. See online.
10th Biennial Lake Superior Youth Symposium
May 16-19, 2013
at Michigan Technological University
Kerfoot to Receive Michigan Tech's 2013 Research Award
Tech, local community celebrate Lake Superior (Daily Mining Gazette)
Two from Tech Among Top 25 Education Professors in Michigan
Center for Water & Society World Water Day Poster Competition was held on Thursday, March 21, 2013. Cash prizes were awarded in 2 poster categories - Original Research and Informational/Coursework.
A. W. (Tony) England, Dale Karr and Roger DeRoo;
“Measurement and Analysis of Extreme Wave and Ice Actions in the Great Lakes for Offshore Wind Platform Design” The University of Michigan, Tuesday March 5, 2013, Great Lakes Research Seminar Series
A Rendezvous for Science—and a Whole Lot More from the Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2013
Professor Guy Meadows (GLRC) Seminar: Discovering Submerged Landscapes with Advanced Aquatic Sensors, February 15, 2013
After-school Science for Kids at the Great Lakes Research Center
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