Please join us on Thursday, January 23 from 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. eastern / 9:30 a.m. -11:00 a.m. central for a webinar that will provide updates on work under the Nutrients Annex of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. During this webinar we will summarize current conditions in Lake Erie, and you will hear about […]

The 2023 Annual Climate Trends and Impacts Summary for the Great Lakes Basin, led by Environment and Climate Change Canada and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a partnership of climate services organizations in the U.S. and Canada, provides an overview of the climate trends and impacts in the basin for the year, […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change 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 […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change 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. […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change 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. […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change 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. […]

Introduction Under the 2012 Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “the Parties to the Agreement” – the U.S. and Canadian Governments – are to conduct a review of the operation and effectiveness of the Agreement every nine years. The scope and nature of the review are to be determined by the Parties: “Following every third […]

Under the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, Canada and the United States use an Adaptive Management approach for addressing eutrophication issues in Lake Erie. The Annex 4 (Nutrients) Subcommittee’s Adaptive Management Task Team conducted an evaluation to assess changes in phosphorus loads and progress towards achieving the related Lake Ecosystem Objectives outlined under Annex […]

Through the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (Agreement), Annex 4 (Nutrients), Canada and the United States (the Parties) have committed to coordinate binational actions to manage phosphorus loadings to the Great Lakes to combat harmful and nuisance algal blooms and hypoxia. The Parties adopted phosphorus load reduction targets in 2016 to reduce inputs to the […]