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Great Lakes Wind
Collaborative
More
than 120 Great Lakes policymakers and business leaders interested in development
of wind energy attended the first annual meeting of the Great Lakes Wind
Collaborative held May 6-7 in Buffalo, N.Y. The Wind Collaborative was
created in 2007 to provide a forum to address issues affecting the
planning, development and operation of wind power facilities in the Great
Lakes region. More
Great Lakes Compact passes in Wisconsin and Michigan
legislatures, leaving two states to approve
Acting
in a special session May 15, both houses of the Wisconsin State Legislature
passed the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Basin Compact by wide margins.
The vote in the Wisconsin Senate was 32-1 and in the Assembly 96-1. More
House passage of ballast bill turns attention to Senate
Passage
in late April by the House of Representatives of Coast Guard Authorization
Act of 2007 (H.R. 2830) by a vote of 395 to 7 marked a much-heralded first
step toward federal control of ballast water as a vector for aquatic
invasive species. More
Lake Carriers weigh in on growing surplus in Harbor
Maintenance Trust Fund
A
dredging backlog that has severely impacted maritime commerce and
recreational boating in the Great Lakes could be easily eliminated if money
collected by the federal government for harbor maintenance was actually
used for that purpose, maritime interests told Congress recently. More
Sam Speck, former GLC chair, confirmed as U.S. member of the
IJC
Former
Great Lakes Commission chair Sam Speck has been appointed by President
George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as one of the three U.S.
members of the International Joint Commission (IJC). More
GLOS holds annual meeting in Milwaukee
The
Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) held its annual meeting April 16-17 in
Milwaukee, Wis., hosted by the Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Great Lakes
WATER Institute. More than 50 participants learned about GLOS's modeling
work in the Huron to Erie Corridor and plans for a Great Lakes Modeling and
Assessment Center. More
Regional Data Exchange workshops held in Chicago, Buffalo
Two
workshops in a series on sharing and application of Great Lakes data were
held May 1 and May 15 in Chicago and Buffalo respectively. Objectives of
the workshops were to convene members of federal, state, research and
non-governmental communities who are engaged in generating, managing,
distributing and using geospatial datasets for Great Lakes coastal zone
issues. More
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Papers sought for
International Submerged Lands Management Conference
A
call for abstracts has been issued for the 27th annual International Submerged
Lands Conference to be held October 26-28, 2008 at the Hagerty Center at
Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan. More
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