Unified Interior Regions
Region 3: Great Lakes
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
For more information on the Great Lakes and work being done, check out the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative website here!
GLRIUSGS Science Centers in the Great Lakes Region
For more information on what each center is doing in the Great Lakes, please follow the links below!
Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center
Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Regions L2 Landing Page Tabs
Stream sampling in the School Branch watershed
Stream sampling in the School Branch watershed
Algae Invert sampling at DR 750N School Branch site
Algae Invert sampling at DR 750N School Branch site
Electrofishing at School Branch IN Noble Drive surface water site
Electrofishing at School Branch IN Noble Drive surface water site
Groundwater sampling for School Branch study
Groundwater sampling for School Branch study
Arsenic levels exceeding U.S. standards for drinking water are present in numerous domestic drinking water supply wells distributed over nine counties in southeastern Michigan. U.S. Geological Survey scientist Dr. Allan Kolker will describe possible sources for these anomalously high concentrations during the Annual Meeting of the Geological society of America scheduled for Oct. 25-29 in Toronto,
Dr. Robert McLean has been named director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis. McLean, who will assume his new duties in late July, will be responsible for overall Center management.
Water quality in the White River Basin is impacted by urban and agricultural activities, according to the results of a five-year investigation by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior.
Dr. Nancy Milton was named today to the post of center director at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Science Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. Dr. Milton, succeeds Dr. Gregory Smith, who selected her for the position. Dr. Smith is now the USGS Acting Eastern Regional Chief Biologist in Leetown, W.Va.
An exotic parasite, never before reported in the United States, is responsible for killing large numbers of waterbirds in Shawano Lake, Wisconsin, last fall. Dr. Rebecca Cole, a parasitologist working at the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, announced the finding today.
A single-engine airplane, operated under contract to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), will fly over three areas in central Wisconsin and two smaller areas in northern Wisconsin during a two-month period beginning in early October.
About 10 strong earthquakes have struck southern Illinois and Indiana during the past 12,000 years, according to a new study by geologist Steve Obermeier of the U.S. Geological Survey and archeologists Pat Munson and Rex Garniewicz of Indiana University.
The most important ground-water problems in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee are probably high concentrations of dissolved solids and large water-level declines near wells that pump large amounts of water from the aquifers (underground water-bearing rock layers), according to a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey.