For over a decade, Buffalo State University’s Great Lakes Center has maintained and operated a real-time monitoring buoy deployed off the coast of Dunkirk, New York, in Lake Erie’s eastern basin. Funded by the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) and with field support from the NYSDEC Lake Erie Fisheries Research Unit, the buoy provides data […]
Waves are periodic ridges or swells on the surface of bodies of water caused by energy passing through the water. Energy transfer from wind is the driving force behind most common surface gravity waves throughout the globe. As air passes over the water, the friction at the air-water interface produces localized wave crests. Unimpeded wave […]
