Lake Superior Collaborative Meeting Presentations - November 2014 | The Great Lakes

On Nov. 19-20, 2014, EPA hosted a meeting in Duluth, Minnesota to kick off a Lake Superior Environmental Monitoring Collaborative. Ten tribes, eight federal agencies and the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin participated in the meeting. Technical experts from state and federal agencies and tribes made presentations describing ongoing environmental monitoring work in the Lake Superior Basin and discussed opportunities to improve access to this information.

At the end of the meeting, participants agreed on several next steps:

Agencies and tribes will submit information about their Lake Superior basin environmental monitoring work to an on-line catalogue being developed by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The Lake Superior Binational Program will convene a workgroup to propose directions for future environmental monitoring work in the Lake Superior Basin.
EPA will convene additional meetings over the coming months to discuss the Lake Superior Environmental Collaborative with academia, non-governmental organizations, and the regulated community in the Lake Superior Basin.

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Agenda (PDF)(3 pp, 210 K)
List of Attendees (PDF)(1 pg, 82 K)
Summary of Environmental Monitoring Presentations (PDF)(10 pp, 249 K)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency #1 Surface Water Quality Data (PDF)(6 pp, 1 MB)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency #2 Great Lakes Monitoring and Surveillance Programs (PDF)(39 pp, 3 MB)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency #3 Lake Superior Monitoring (PDF)(3 pp, 2 MB)
Bureau of Indian Affairs (PDF) (PDF)(20 pp, 3 MB)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District (PDF)(12 pp, 2 MB)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Lake Superior Environmental Monitoring Collaborative (PDF)(12 pp, 4 MB)
U.S. Forest Service Discussion of Ongoing Environmental Monitoring Work (PDF)(8 pp, 491 K)
U.S. Geological Survey Activities in the Lake Superior Basin (PDF)(31 pp, 6 MB)
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Lake Superior Environmental Monitoring (PDF)(17 pp, 4 MB)
National Park Service National Park Service Environmental Monitoring & Assessment in the Lake Superior Basin (PDF)(21 pp, 4 MB)
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Lake Superior Environmental Monitoring (PDF)(24 pp, 5 MB)
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Monitoring and Environmental Data Collection on and off the Reservation (PDF)(43 pp, 18 MB)
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Environmental Monitoring Activities in Lake Superior (PDF)(17 pp, 3 MB)
Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Map (PDF)(1 pg, 119 K)
Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission Environmental Monitoring Relevant to the Lake Superior Basin (PDF)(13 pp, 1 MB)
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Lake Superior and Its Watershed (PDF)(24 pp, 3 MB)
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (PDF)(45 pp, 5 MB)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Surface Water Quality Data Collection and Retrieval (PDF)(11 pp, 2 MB)
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Data Sharing (PDF)(14 pp, 3 MB)
U.S. Geological Survey Approaches for Data Sharing (PDF)(16 pp, 3 MB)
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Approaches to Data Sharing (PDF)(11 pp, 856 K)
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Monitoring Data (PDF)(8 pp, 1 MB)