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U-M divers retrieve 8,900-year-old piece of wood from Lake Huron
Annarbor.com (12/12)
University of Michigan researchers announced they have found a 5 1/2 foot long, pole-shaped piece of wood that is 8,900 years old in Lake Huron.
Superior researchers studying invasives, ballast water
Ashland Current (2/9)
Determining how clean a ship's ballast water must be to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species is the goal of the latest research partnership between the Northeast-Midwest Institute and the Lake Superior Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
RIVERKEEPERS: Tending the waterways
Niagara Gazette (2/6)
The goal of the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper is two-fold: protecting the water quantity and the quality, as well as connecting people to the waterfront.
Internationally renowned ‘Ocean Doctor’ to speak in Grand Rapids
MLive.com (2/3)
Known as the “Ocean Doctor,” David Guggenheim will speak in Grand Rapids, Mich., about the many similarities between the threats to the oceans and to our Great Lakes.
SUNY Fredonia to lead Great Lakes pollution study
Wall Street Journal (2/3)
Plastic pollution in the Great Lakes will be the focus of a study this summer. Led by the State University of New York at Fredonia, researchers will try to quantify the amount of plastic polluting the fresh water Great Lakes.
SSC students taking part in marine science bowl
Arenac County Independent (1/31)
Teams of Michigan high school students will be heading to Ann Arbor this weekend to take part in the annual Great Lakes Bowl, a quiz event that focuses on questions about marine and freshwater systems and biology.
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Who discovered the Great Lakes?
from Daniel in Columbia, SC, Age 13
The first discoverers of the Great Lakes were Native peoples, who were the original inhabitants and settlers of the region. Europeans didn't arrive at the Great Lakes until around the year 1600 or so.
The man generally credited with the European "discovery" of the Great Lakes is Étienne Brûlé (1592?-1632), a French scout for the explorer Samuel de Champlain (1567?-1635).
Brûlé reached Georgian Bay on Lake Huron around 1615, and went on to see Lake Ontario and the Susquehanna River. Champlain, meanwhile, explored the St. Lawrence River and eventually founded the first European settlement on the site of what is now called Québec in 1608. He first saw the lake that now bears his name in 1609 and in 1611, Champlain founded the trading post of Montréal.
Related references:
TEACH: Native Peoples of the Great Lakes Region
EPA / EC: Settlement and Development
John Cletheroe: Significant Figures In American and Canadian History
Thank you for your question!
Answered on September 25, 2001