There will be a planned outage of this website beginning 8:00 am CST on Monday, March 3 and lasting through Wednesday, March 5 as we migrate our network to EPA’s National Computer Center. During the move, this website will be unavailable. Please check the site on Thursday March 6, 2025 after 8 am CST as we hope to have all services restored by then. Il y aura une interruption programmée de ce site web à partir de 8h00 CST le lundi 3 mars et jusqu'au mercredi 5 mars, car nous transférons notre réseau vers le Centre National de l'Informatique de l'EPA. Pendant cette période, le site web sera indisponible. Veuillez vérifier le site le jeudi 6 mars 2025 après 8h00 CST, car nous espérons avoir rétabli tous les services d'ici là.

You are invited to an upcoming Lake Huron Lakewide Action and Management Plan webinar

On November 8, 2018, please join us for a webinar from 9:30 am – 11:00 am CST/10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST to discuss the implementation of the 2018 Lake Huron Lakewide Action and Management Plan (LAMP), which was released in April 2018. The LAMP is an ecosystem-based strategy for restoring and protecting Lake Huron […]

Posted: November 5, 2018

Approaches for Conducting Vulnerability Assessments in the Great Lakes Basin: A Review of the Literature

This report provides an overview of assessments that have been conducted in the Great Lakes Basin to determine the vulnerability of natural ecosystems to the impacts of climate change. The purpose of the report is to inform the development and implementation of vulnerability assessments by members of the Great Lakes research community, resource managers, practitioners […]

Posted: November 1, 2018

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region – September 2018

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by NOAA and Environment Canada summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. It is published roughly four weeks after the […]

Posted: October 2, 2018

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region – December 2017

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by NOAA and Environment Canada summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. It is published roughly four weeks after the […]

Posted: October 2, 2018

Advice from Canadian and U.S. Nuclear Agencies on Nomination of Radionuclides as a Chemical of Mutual Concern

Radionuclides have been nominated for consideration as candidate substances for designation as a Chemical of Mutual Concern (CMC) under the Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. In response to this nomination, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sought advice from their respective nuclear regulatory agencies. Both the Canadian Nuclear […]

Posted: May 25, 2018

Draft Binational Strategy for Chemicals of Mutual Concern Available for Public Review

The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement commits Canada and the United States to prepare and issue Binational Strategies to reduce the release and impact of Chemicals of Mutual Concern. The draft strategy for Mercury is now available for public review on Binational.net. The period for interested agencies, organizations, and individuals to provide comments on the […]

Posted: May 17, 2018