As a senator, JD Vance supported funding for the restoration of the lakes. Advocates are hoping the vice president will as ...

In the case of the Great Lakes in the 1940s and 50s, this same narrative unfolded. The lake trout population was nearly wiped out, and all fingers pointed at commercial fishermen. The problem?

This website brings together detailed demographic data on the angler population across the five US states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) that border the Upper Great Lakes ...

Zebra and quagga mussels, originally found in Eastern Europe and Russia, arrived in the Great Lakes in the late 80s via ballast discharge from transoceanic ships. The Rochester embayment was ...

Our mission is to improve the understanding of the Great Lakes ecosystem, including the physical, biological, and chemical processes that shape it, as well as the social and political forces that ...