GLEON in the News

[Archive page last updated: 17 June 2016]

GLEON media updates can now be found on our social media accounts (see links below). Please send an email to Lisa Borre if you would like to submit a notice of a GLEON-related award or news articles that mentioned GLEON. In addition to print/text-based media coverage below, more of: GLEON on Radio or Film/Video

2016

• The Sound of Science - UW Madison researcher mixes music and limnology, Ithsmus, 16 June 2016.
• GLEON Buoy Data Online - This week at the [Iowa] Lakeside Lab, Dickinson County News, 14 June 2016.
• Challenges in Assembling and Managing Environmental Data Sets, Eos Editor's Vox, AGU Blog, 25 January 2016.
• What the GLEON buoy is telling us? LEA Lake News Winter/January 2016.
• Jon Doubek co-chair elect of the GLEON Student Association, VirginiaTech Global Change Center News, 23 January 2016.
• Climate change is rapidly warming the world's lakes, new research shows - Rising temperatures threaten ecosystems, drinking water, fish. Miami University News, 7 January 2016.

2015 

• Iowa Artist Makes Music From Lake Okoboji Water Data, Iowa Public Radio, 14 December 2015.
• ISU professor uses sound to help show research [buoy] data, Ames Tribune, 12 December 2015. Alex Braidwood is interviewed about how he programmed music from high-frequency buoy data from West Lake Okoboji, deployed by GLEONites and colleagues at new site Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. The soundtrack released in June can be listened to online here.
• LEA's GLEON buoy on Highland Lake, blog.MrLakefront.net, 20 November 2015. Colin Holme and Lakes Environmental Association (Maine, USA) crew interviewed.
• O'Reilly, Perry join Million Dollar Club, Illinois State University News, 22 October 2015.
• International Symposium on Freshwater Ecosystems and Blue-Green Alage Monitoring, Chuncheon (in Korean), 리서치미디어스, Research Polls & Big Data Media, South Korea, 15 October 2015. The news article summarizes 200 GLEOnites and affiliates from 20+ countries attending GLEON 17 All-Hands Meeting in Chuncheon, higlighting keynote speakers Bas Ibelings, Justin Brookes and Korean National Environmental Research Institute's contribution to the symposium on 16 October 2015.
• *남조류 녹조현상의 위해성 저감 방안 공유 (in Korean; "Monitoring and reducing the risk of harmful blue-green algal blooms"), EcoTimes, 15 October 2015. 
• *[국립환경과학원] ‘담수 생태계와 남조류 대발생’ 국제 심포지엄 개최|작성자 (in Korean; "[National Institute of Environmental Research] Blue-green algae and freshwater ecosystems International Symposium"), Water Journal, 15 October 2015.
• *Korea invites global experts to discuss cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater and ecosystem health (in Korean), IPN News, 15 October 2015.
• *Domestic and international experts meet in freshwater ecosystems conference on monitoring harmful algal blooms & challenges (in Korean), Policy Briefings, 15 October 2015.
• A little slice of heaven - the First Official Meeting of the Phycological Research, Diatoms of the United States News, 14 September 2015.
• LEA [Lakes Environmental Association, Maine] keeps close watch on water quality. The Bridgton News, 21 August 2015.
• Shelburne Pond: a study in progress, Shelburne News, 24 July 2015.
• Q&A with Kathleen Weathers: GLEON co-Chair Talks on Network's 10th Year, Environmental Monitor, 22 July 2015.
• New research laboratory at Lacawac Sanctuary enhances Miami's Center for Aquatic and Watershed Sciences, Miami University News & Communications, 16 July 2015.
• On New York's Lake George, rsearchers fire up a state-of-the-art observatory, Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.aac8828), 10 July 2015. Paul Hanson and Kevin Rose interviewed.
• Fredonia faculty member receives $10,000 grant for environmental research, Fredonia University News, 8 July 2015.
• With New Buoy, West Okoboji Lake Joins GLEON, Environmental Monitor, 6 July 2015.
• Great Lakes of Data: More with Pat Soranno on the challenges of data integration in ecology, BioMed Central 'GigaBlog', 3 July 2015. 
• Fokus auf Österreichs einzigen hochalpinen See (in German), Der Standard, 3 July 2015.
• Reproducible research and public data-sharing in ecology: a Q&A with LAGOS creators, BioMed Central 'On Biology', 1 July 2015.
• Hochalpine Seen sind empfindlich (in German; featuring GLEON site Austria's only high alpine lake Gossenkoellesee), Salzburger Nachrichten, 1 July 2015.
• From the President, LakeLine Magazine, Summer 2015 (p.3). GLEON Lake Observer app mentioned.
• SUNY Fredonia conducting research on Chautauqua Lake, The Observer (Dunkirk, NY), 30 June 2015. Courtney Wigdahl-Perry and colleagues interviewed for their work and the GLEON buoy.
• Gossenköllesee wird Teil von internationaler Seengemeinschaft (in German), University of Innsbruck News, 30 June 2015. The only Alpine lake in Austria joins GLEON as a site member.
• GLEON: Ten years of linking lakes and people, Environmental Monitor, 24 June 2015. Peter Arzberger and Cayelan Carey were interviewed, featuring GLEON 16 group photo at Lac Stukely, Quebec.
• Notes from the Northwoods: Heavy Lifting on Sparkling Lake, UW-Center for Limnology Blog, 3 June 2015.
• New hydrological buoy installed, Iowa Great Lakes Association News, 26 May 2015. On Iowa Lakeside Lab's new West Lake Okoboji buoy project and joining GLEON.
• GLEON Buoy to be Topic of First Lakeside Faculty Lecture June 2nd, Explore Okoboji News, 21 May 2015.
• GLEON 10th anniversary marks a decade of collaborative lake research, Environmental Monitor, 31 March 2015. 
• Scientists Expand Global Lake Surface Temperature Database, Lake Scientist, 24 March 2015.
• Warming Lakes: New Global Database Sets the Stage for Research on the Ecological Effects of climate Change, National Geographic, 18 March 2015.
• New lake surface temperature database will help in study of climate change, York University yFile News and Phys.org Environment News, 17 March 2015. 
• Author's Corner: Are Lakes Warming? Scientific Data Blog, 17 March 2015. On "A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009" by Sharma et al., including many GLEONites and data shared by many GLEON sites.
• Teaming up to protect and manage lakes, WAMC Northeast Public Radio podcast, produced in collaboration with Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, 16 March 2015, featuring Shelbourne Pond and the newly deployed GLEON data buoy. 

*GLEON 17 Meeting coverage in Korean.

2014 

• Big Data Arrives on a Small Lake in Vermont, National Geographic, 19 December 2014.
• New Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes data buoy tracks polymictic lake's oxygen dynamics, Environmental Monitor, 16 December 2014.
• White House recognizes Cary-led project, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Newsletter, 9 December 2014.
• Fact Sheet: Harnessing Climate Data to Boost Ecosystem & Water Resilience (pdf), THE WHITE HOUSE Office of Science and Technology Policy, 9 December 2014. 
• Buffalo Pound Lake buoy to bring new data on skinny, bloom-prone reservoir, Environmental Monitor, 22 October 2014. 
• On Highland Lake, data buoy to help answer stratefication questions, Environmental Monitor, 15 October 2014.
• KuDos Award Win for Waikato University technician, The University of Waikato News, 10 October 2014. Long-term GLEONite Chris McBride won the 2014 KuDos Hamilton Science Excellence 'Hills Laboratory Technician Award'; highlights of his work includes developing both hardware & software for monitoring buoys on New Zealand lakes that form an integral part GLEON, processing big data for research aimed at managing & restoring water quality, and studying global patterns, long-term change through GLEON network.
• On Great Pond, "Goldie" the data buoy tracks a pristine lake in slow decline, Environmental Monitor, 9 October 2014
• >Water Quality Technician a KuDos Award Finalist, Scoop Independent News (original link), 3 September 2014.
• Der Müggelsee wird wider klarer (in German; 'The Mueggelsee [largest lake in Berlin] is again clear'), Berliner Zeitung, 23 July 2014. Rita Adrian and IGB colleagues interviewed for the research and data analysis collaboration with GLEON.
• Monitoring Buoy Launched [at the deepest point in Highland Lake, Maine], Lakes Environmental Association News, 18 July 2014.
• Global Collaboration to Address Climate Change, The Larry Miller Show, Wisconsin Public Radio, 16 July 2014.
• UW Limnologists Help Lead Global Collaboration On Lake Research, The Larry Miller Show, Wisconsin Public Radio, 16 July 2014.
• Data buoys show how Lake Lacawac and other Northeast lakes respond to extreme weather, Environmental Monitor, 3 February 2014. 

2013 

• NSF grant will enhance Lacawac Santuary as a "Hub for EONs" - ecological observatory networks, Miami University News, 18 December 2013
• Lake Science Goes High-Tech to Understand Impacts of Extreme Weather Events in Argentina, National Geographic, 3 December 2013
• The GLEON network: A pulse on the planet's lakes, Ecofocus-Fall, 1 December 2013
• Lacawac Sanctuary breaks ground for research lab - NEagle, 28 October 2013
• Wetland observatory tracks water budgets in northern peatlands, Environmental Monitor, 18 October 2013
• Data buoy on Maine's Lake Auburn tracks important drinking water source, Environmental Monitor, 4 October 2013
• Spring Blitz! Global Collaboration Gets to the Bottom of Plankton Diversity - UW-Center for Limnology Blog, 6 June 2013
• Lake Life Ramping Back Up, Clear Water Phase on Its Way [at Lake Mendota], UW-Center for Limnology Blog, 16 May 2013
• Buoy can offer better look into Great Pond's ecosystem - Morning Sentinel, 26 April 2013 
• High-tech buoy to blast Great Pond data worldwide - Morning Sentinel, 21 April 2013
• Climate change and deforestation threaten the ecological stability of Lake Tanganyika, BeforeItsNews.com, 8 March 2013.
• Warming Lakes: Climate Change Threatens the Ecological Stability of Lake Tanganyika - by Lisa Borre in Water Currents, National Geographic, 7 March 2013

2012 

• Data buoy network study shows effects of [Hurricane] Irene across 9 lakes, Environmental Monitor, 31 December 2012
• Irene and Sandy Show the Effects of Extreme Weather on Lakes, National Geographic, 21 December 2012
• Warming Lakes: Climate Change and Variability Drive Low Water Levels on the Great Lakes, National Geographic, 20 November 2012
• Lake Kortowskie in the global monitoring network, Science & Scholarship in Poland - News of Polish Science, 7 November 2012. Julita Dunalska interviewed for the first GLEON buoy in Olsztyn, Poland to join the global monitoring efforts.
• Jezioro Kortowskie w światowej sieci monitoringu (in Polish), NaukawPolsce (PAP), 30 October 2012
• Warming Lakes: Barometers of Climate Change?  by Lisa Borre, National Geographic, 5 October 2012 
• Lacawac Sanctuary part of global research - The News Eagle, 5 March 2012
• Lacawac Sanctuary adds Director of Research & Education - The News Eagle, 28 February 2012

2011 

• National Science Foundation awards major grant to Cary Institute - PhysOrg.com, 19 December 2011. NSF Macrosystems Biology funding supports building collaborative research and graduate students training model based on GLEON.
• Tracking A Lake's Single-Celled Life - Biological Monitoring: Researchers watch changes in populations of microorganisms in lakes - C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News), 13 October 2011.
• Scientists to discuss how Irene affected NH lake - Boston.com, 7 October 2011.
• Fate of lakes focus of international meeting in Sunapee, N. H.  - Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies press release, 4 October 2011.
• China Aims to Turn Tide Against Toxic Lake Pollution  - Science, 2 September 2011: Vol. 333 no. 6047 pp.1210-1211
• Researchers can monitor Lake Lillinonah 24/7 - Newstimes.com, Hearst Connecticut Media Group, 19 August 2011
• On Lake Taihu, China Moves to Battle Massive Algae Blooms - Yale Environment 360, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 21 July 2011

2004-2010 

• Global grassroots lake science network has roots in Wisconsin - University of Wisconsin-Madison News, 19 July 2010
• Lake Lillinonah's Water Quality To Be Monitored With High-Tech Devices - Brookfield Patch, 2 July , 2010
• Tracking Lillinonah News Times, 5 July, 2010
• Organizations Team up To Monitor Lake Health - Your Public Media, Nancy Eve Cohen, 19 May 2010 (online audio streaming and download available)
• Lagos sao termometro ecologico e urbano conforme GLEON - A Folha, 14 May 2010
• Guarita Park Hotel Brings International Scientific Event for Torres - A Folha, 14 May 2010
• Evento mundial sobre meio-ambiente em Torres - Gazeta, 10 May 2010
• Global lake study centered in Taiwan - Taiwan Today, Taiwan's Government Information Office English news portal. 19 April 2010
• International Science Network Meets in the Northwoods (PDF) - The Lakeland Times, 27 November 2009
• An Interview with Dr. Peter Arzberger: a Friend and Collaborator of NCHC, Nationl Center for High-Performancing Computing Headines, 25 August 2009.
• GLEON 8 Meeting at the University of Waikato (PDF) - University of Waikato Lake Ecosystem Restoration New Zealand, February-April 2009
• Dr. David da Motta Marques, Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and GLEON member, talked about GLEON with local mayor, Mr. Daiçon da Silva. The article (Litoral Norte RS(PDF), 28 October 2008) notes that GLEON is an international group of scientists that studies lakes on a global scale, which is important for understanding key processes such as climate change. At the same meeting, Dr. Motta Marques mentioned that this group is planning a conference in May 2010 at Torres, north of Rio Grande do Sul State. A special meeting between these scientists and the mayors of the counties associated with the Rio Grande do Sul State littoral area was also proposed.
• Lake Ecosystem Restoration New Zealand (LERNZ)(PDF) - August 2008 includes highlights of David Hamilton's research, including GLEON-supported work being done by University of Wisconsin-Madison student, Ryan Kroiss
• Enviado Especial a Carhue(PDF) - La Neuva Provincia, Biaha Blanca, Argentina, 20 April 2008
• Inedito estudio en Las Encadenadas del Oeste - La Nueva Provincia.com, 20 April 2008
• Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network Attracts More Countries, Students, Sites: GLEON's Newest Instrumented Buoy Deployed on Florida Lake - California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, 19 March 2008
• Winter Ice on Lakes, Rivers, Ponds: A Thing of the Past? -  Barbara Benson, Olaf Jensen, John Magnuson, National Science Foundation Discoveries, 10 January 2008
• Sensors, Scientists and Streaming Data: Building a New Research Infrastructure for Community-Based Research Networks, The Cases of Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) and the Coral Reef Ecological Observatory Network (CREON) - Maureen C. Curran, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, 4 December 2007
• Testing the Lake Waters: Eye on Sunapee's Health Is Part of a Global Initiative(PDF), Upper Valley Region, New Hampshire, USA, August 2007
• Embracing Globalization: Meeting the Challenges to U.S. Scientists and Engineers Workshop Report - Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 18 July 2007
• Maailman jarvet haluutan seurantaan(PDF) - EES, 5 March 2007
• Sensors for Environmental Observatories - National Science Foundation Press Release 06-010, 17 January 2007
• Read about the adventures of four scientists as they travel to Yuan Yang Lake in Taiwan to deposit wireless sensors in Racing With the Typhoon: Storm Strands Scientists on Taiwan Mountain - Christine Reilley, Peter Arzberger, Tim Kratz, Fang-Pang Lin, October 2004