If you want to keep your gear safe, DO NOT PUT IT IN THE LAKE. One of our buoys was just hit by a vessel (which will remain nameless here).

Villanova's Career Center better be making hay of this.

Found some 136 year old graffiti carved into a rock in the park near our house this evening

I brought two reporters from the local paper along on a buoy deployment cruise last week. Here's a piece from this weekend in our local paper about the impact of federal funding cuts on Great Lakes science and safety: www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/p...

I'm proud to say that I was a co-author on the last National Climate Assessment (NCA5). I'm sad to say it looks like I was a co-author on the LAST National Climate Assessment. www.npr.org/2025/04/20/n....

Trump on the Great Lakes: "I assume the lakes are all interconnected."

text from my son, majoring in investigative journalism: "Cross my fingers that I get added to the right group chat"

Duluth is being hailed as a climate haven for people fleeing heat waves and sea level rise. But that doesn't mean Duluth isn't changing. And the losses cut deep. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loseth his snow? www.startribune.com/even-in-dulu...

Super excited about this most recent publication! Along with a comprehensive survey of observed winter thermal conditions, we hindcast winter thermal structure across the upper Great Lakes for the last 125+ years: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #GreatLakes #GLOS #LakeSuperior

This is a bit of a surprise; while Lake Superior ice cover is on par with 2024- way behind the long term average- the other four lakes are near or even exceeding the long-term average coverage. Superior coverage typically peaks in early March so we still have a ways to go.

I wrote a paper because I was frustrated with there being little in the literature on the basic dynamics of coastal setup and seiches. Existing lit either provided no dynamical insight or required a degree in applied math. I think this threads that needle. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...