Oh buoy! Runaway research buoy gets data on Great Lakes winter waves

After the buoy broke free from its mooring, it collected the first data that exists on how ice and waves collide in the Great ...
Ukiah Daily Journal

Assignment: Ukiah- The lake never gives up its dead

There are many things I don’t understand.  Some are common, like the mystery of airplanes able to heave their loaded bulk high above the clouds, coming down a million miles away with (almost) ...

Biinaagami map introduces Royal Oak students to new way of seeing Great Lakes

Royal Oak School principal Julia Murray is delighted to finally use Canadian Geographic’s Biinaagami giant floor map after ...

America's 5 States With The Most Lakes

Some regions in the U.S. are home to more lakes than others. Here's our list of the states that have the most lakes (it's ...
Green Matters on MSN

A Massive Tsunami Swept the Pacific — And NASA's Satellite Mapped the Giant Wave's Geometry

NASA ’s SWOT system plotted the images of the storm against a tsunami forecast model from the NOAA. The study demonstrated ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

The storm that took down the Edmund Fitzgerald

The Edmund Fitzgerald still sits at the bottom of Lake Superior, submerged in 535 feet of water, about 17 miles ...

The Great Lakes can be more dangerous than the ocean. Here's why.

Experts say the Great Lakes can be more dangerous than the open ocean due to their volatile nature. Waves on the Great Lakes ...
Scientific American

Dangerous Rogue Waves Aren’t Random—They’re Predictable

Under a hazy gray sky on the first day of 1995, the Draupner natural gas platform in the North Sea was struck by something that had long been relegated to maritime folklore: an 84-foot wall of water ...
Wired

The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, ...
Lansing State Journal

High waves predicted across Great Lakes. Where gale warnings, watches are in effect

Gale-force winds Thursday, Nov. 6 through Friday, Nov. 7 are expected to create dangerous waves up to 12 feet on the Great Lakes. "Strong winds will cause hazardous waves which could capsize or damage ...
WSAW

Rescuer shares story of woman swept off Grand Marais pier into Lake Superior

GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (Northern News Now) - A woman was rescued from Lake Superior last weekend after being swept off a pier in Grand Marais. Chris Carlson was fishing in the Grand Marais harbor on ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ Sank Half a Century Ago. We’re Still Fascinated

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of Lake Superior with a cargo full of ...