Great Lakes Monitoring

Great Lakes Monitoring

During the spring and summer, EPA's research vessel, the Lake Guardian, is used to help scientists sample water, aquatic life, sediments and air. Data gathered shows trends in water quality and aquatic life. Researchers are then able to decide the overall health of the Great Lakes ecosystem.

Great Lakes Monitoring Programs

Great Lakes Water Quality Monitoring Program
Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network
Great Lakes Biology Monitoring Program
Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program

Coastal Wetland Monitoring

About the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program (CWMP)
Why Monitoring of the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands is Important
Where Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Occur
How the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands are Monitored
Great Lakes CWMP Results and Major Findings
How the CWMP Data are Being Used

Cooperative Science and Monitoring

Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI)
2021 Surveys Conducted on Lake Guardian
2019 Surveys Conducted on Lake Guardian

Great Lakes Lower Food Web Report

In the Lower Food Web report, we summarize data on status and trends of key components of the lower food web in the offshore waters of the Great Lakes from the late 1990s-2018. Data presented in the report are collected as part of EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office Great Lakes Biology Monitoring Program and Great Lakes Water Quality Monitoring Program.

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Great Lakes Monitoring

Great Lakes Monitoring

Great Lakes Monitoring Programs

Coastal Wetland Monitoring

Cooperative Science and Monitoring

Great Lakes Lower Food Web Report

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