Great Lakes Study Highlights Environmental Threats And Conservation Challenges

December 19, 2012

A research team, led by the University of Michigan, has developed a comprehensive map telling the story of human impact on the Great Lakes and identifying how “environmental stressors” stretching from Minnesota to Ontario are shaping the future of an ecosystem that contains 20 percent of the world’s fresh water. The map, three years in the making, was a collaborative effort with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a binational team of researchers from the Great Lakes Environmental Assessment and Mapping (GLEAM) project.
 
The results, published in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describe an expansive and detailed effort to map and cross-compare environmental stresses and the ecological services provided by the five lakes.

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