Researchers at Michigan Tech's Great Lakes Research Center are leading a collaborative effort to map the lake beds of the Great Lakes at high resolution for the first time—a giant leap forward in the ...

A map of the Great Lakes’ bottoms would benefit insurance companies, the shipping and fishing industries, construction projects and more.

The Great Lakes mapping effort will pinpoint hundreds of shipwrecks, illuminate topographical features and identify fisheries, a marine scientist said.

We know less about the bottom of the Great Lakes than we do about the surface of Mars, according to Jennifer Boehme. The oceanographer is executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, an ...

Now you can study the sunken ships of the Great Lakes without leaving your armchair or getting wet, thanks to the Michigan Shipwrecks StoryMap. The cold, fresh waters of the Great Lakes are ...

The Great Lakes Observing System has been pushing since 2018 to create high-resolution maps of all five Great Lakes bottoms.

Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up. As executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, she's leading a campaign to map every meter of the lakes' bottom.

Launched last month, Great Lakes FreshFishFinder.org highlights businesses where consumers can buy locally produced fish across the entire Great Lakes region.

(WPBN/WGTU) -- A new interactive map will help you get a whole new view of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes while also piecing together important history. The Syracuse and the Cedarville are among ...

Only a fraction of the Great Lakes' bottom has been mapped, and those low-resolution charts were completed decades ago, according to the Great Lakes Observing System. The organization has been ...

Thanks to an online map, you can take a closer look at Great Lakes shipwrecks, as well as boating acess sites, diving information and each boat's history.

The last effort to map the lakes came in the 1970s. Maps were largely created using single-beam sonar technology similar to today’s commercially available depth- and fish-finders.