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The second WOW teacher workshop was held at SUNY Stone Ridge, NY on Nov 14th and 15th. Check out the workshop highlights.
All of the Minnesota Lake and the St Louis River RUSS units have been removed for the winter. The DuluthStreams stream monitoring units are still up and running.
The first WOW teacher training workshop was held in Wilmington, North Carolina on Oct 9th and 10th. Check out the workshop highlights.
We have decided to remove the Ice Lake RUSS this week because the unit needs repairs. We will be taking biweekly manual profiles until the lake freezes. The Shagawa unit is still up and running, though the dissolved oxygen sensor is reading low. We'll try and keep this unit out as long as possible.
Winter is trying to make a comeback in Ely, MN. Here's what it looked like on a recent maintenance visit.
New DVTs: Check out the new stream data vizualization tools (opens a new page) on DuluthStreams. The St. Louis River data is also now available in the DVT format.
WOW is offering a series of introductory workshops for instructors this fall. To find out more download the brochure (3.6 M PDF file) or click here for a text only version. The on-line registration form is here.
The St Louis River RUSS is finally back up and running. The data will be posted shortly.
The Medicine Lake unit was deployed 6/12/03.
The Shagawa lake unit (Ely, MN) was deployed this week. The ice went out around 5/1/03.
The ice went out on Ice Lake (Grand Rapids, MN) around 4/17/03. The RUSS unit was deployed yesterday and data should be available later today.
The ice is still thick on Northern Minnesota lakes. Ice Lake was sampled last week and the ice was 2 feet thick. Shagawa will be sampled this week.
Lake Superior has the most ice in years but probably won't freeze entirely, ice experts said Wednesday."I don't think it's going to happen," said Craig Evanego, an ice forecaster with the National Ice Center in Washington. "It will come close, but it won't be shore to shore over the whole lake."Still, the lake has the most ice since 1997 and is the closest to freezing over since ice covered the lake in February 1994. (March 6, 2003, Duluth News-Tribune, MN).
The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) has a series of images showing how the ice cover has grown during the past week's record cold.
A mystery has been solved. The mysterious hole in the ice that showed up this past winter in North Long Lake near Brainerd, MN was formed by upwelling groundwater. Check out the "Lake Detective" for an explanation.
WOW will be evolving in 2003! To see what's going to change click here.
GreenWorks TV did some filming in Minneapolis last summer of the Medicine Lake lawn fertilizer experiment. An information page is now available on their site and the movie will be up soon.