Scientists have added four new platforms to the network of monitoring buoys that has taken shape since the Toledo crisis. Three of these were launched in the summer of 2015 near Maumee Bay and at other points off the shore of Michigan.
There are many different networks out there, which are largely supported by government agencies and universities. Maintaining these networks, including servicing old buoys or launching new ones, is a big and important job.
The Charter Township of Ypsilanti deployed two real-time dissolved oxygen monitoring buoys along with a multi-parameter weather station.
In collaboration with the NDBC, researchers are seeking to better understand coastal resources and processes of Grand Traverse Bay.
