The organization has been pushing since 2018 to create high-resolution maps of all five Great Lakes bottoms, but that's a daunting task. The lakes cover 94,250 square miles — an area larger than ...

A couple sits on a beach near Lake Erie, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Oregon, Ohio. An effort to map the bottom of the Great Lakes is gaining momentum amid promises that it will help ...

The Great Lakes map would provide fuller images of bottom features that have changed in the last 50 years due to erosion and shifting sands, giving navigators new depth findings that would improve ...

Only 15 per cent of the lakes' bottom has been mapped, according to the Great Lakes Observing System. The organization has been pushing since 2018 to secure funding to map the entire lakebed in ...

The Great Lakes Observing System estimates mapping all five lakes will cost $200 million. The money would be spent on a combination of advanced sound and light detection technologies over ...

The Great Lakes map would provide fuller images of bottom features that have changed in the last 50 years due to erosion and shifting sands, ...

The Great Lakes map would provide fuller images of bottom features that have changed in the last 50 years due to erosion and shifting sands, giving navigators new depth findings that would improve ...

Heat waves and cold spells are part of life on the Great Lakes. But new research from the University of Michigan shows that is true today in a fundamentally different way than it was even 30 years ...