Buoys in Lake Michigan
Real-time buoys in Lake Michigan serve multiple audiences: boaters, anglers, padders, surfers, weather forecasters, and charter boats. Data are refreshed every 10-60 minutes during the buoy season, which runs from April through late October.
See MoreCooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI)
Each year since 2002, through CSMI, multiple federal, state, and university scientists gather on one of the Great Lakes to take part in coordinated research. In the past 10 years, Lake Michigan has been the focus of intensive research in 2015 and 2020, with 2025 (and every five years after that) expected to be the lake’s field years
See MoreFisheries Data
Comprehensive fisheries data in Lake Michigan have been collected by state agencies since the 1980s. In partnership with these agencies, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant has collated and published these data in a user-friendly way via two interactive websites: Angler Archive and Fish Atlas.
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