[dailynews] October 5, 2012

Great Lakes Daily News: October 5, 2012
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COMMENTARY: Great Lakes in our hands
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What can we do locally to improve Lake Ontario? How can students get involved? How can we utilize Lake Ontario, or any natural resource sustainably? How have we already begun to do this? Source: The Oswegonian (10/5)


Warming lakes: Barometers of climate change?
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In the last 25 years, the world’s largest lakes have been steadily warming, some by as much as 4°F (2.2°C). In some cases, the trend is twice as fast as the air temperature trend over the same period. Source: National Geographic (10/5)


Group of Muskegon residents get to see wind turbine parts unloaded from foreign ship
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Great Lakes shipping fans saw West Michigan crews offloading 31 German-made wind turbine blades from the foreign cargo ship Amstelborg, which is German owned and of Dutch registry. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (10/5)


$3.3M project launched at Buffalo's outer harbor
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The Cuomo administration has announced a $3.3 million project that will enhance public access to a stretch of Buffalo's Lake Erie shoreline. Source: Wall Street Journal (10/5)


Great Lakes' currents visualized through computer code
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You can't normally see water currents or the wind. Now you can: A computer code used to visualize wind has been adapted by researchers to show surface currents of the Great Lakes. Source: Huffington Post (10/5)


Algoma vessel renamed in honor of retired director
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Algoma Central Corporation's 'M/V Algobay' was renamed  'Radcliffe R. Latimer' in a rededication ceremony in Port Colborne. Source: MarineLink.com (10/4)


Great Lakes Compact faces first test
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A four-year-old compact meant to protect the Great Lakes water supply from being siphoned by thirsty communities is facing its first test, as a Wisconsin city just outside the Great Lakes Basin moves to tap into Lake Michigan. Source: Wall Street Journal (10/3)


Two NY colleges get funding to study invasive fish in the great lakes
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Buffalo State will assess the invasive potential for high-risk Ponto-Caspian fish from European shipping ports. Cornell will increase efforts in the Lake Ontario region to communicate with anglers and boaters about the risks that invasive species pose to the Great Lakes Source: Empie State News (10/3)


Federal judge recommends partially upholding Mohawk land claim
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But Judge Thérèse Wiley Dancks of the U.S. District Court in Syracuse recommended dismissing the claims to about 10,000 acres in the towns of Fort Covington and Massena, and to Barnhart, Croil and Long Sault islands in the St. Lawrence River. Source: Watertown Daily Times (10/2)


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