Great lakes

Great lakes (6)

Synopsis: Oceanography: Lake: Great lakes:


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Melodia tested the system recently in Lake erie a few miles south of downtown Buffalo. Hovannes Kulhandjian and Zahed Hossain both doctoral candidates in his lab dropped two 40-pound sensors into the water.


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and shown that it has a crescent-shaped ocean holding about as much water as Lake superior in North america.


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#Buried'Lake superior'seen on Saturn's moon Enceladus Saturn's icy moon Enceladus already known for spitting plumes of water into space just got even more interesting.

New gravity readings suggest it hosts a subsurface sea the size of Lake superior at its south pole

It would contain about as much water as Lake superior in North america. Hosting an ocean in contact with rocks boosts the chances that Enceladus hosts life


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Tiny Eurasian exotic is upending watery ecosystems across the northern Great lakes The zooplankton never saw it coming.

which is why the spiny water flea aka Bythotrephes (pronounced BITH-oh-TREH-feez) is devouring its way through the Great lakes and into the surrounding inland waters.

and Lake michigan said Kerfoot. We expect it will have cascading effects up to the fish but right now we can see a major collapse of the plankton community.

Like many aquatic invasive species it was transplanted by ships loading ballast in one part of the world and dumping it in another in this case the Great lakes.

But it is having a field day in a band of inland lakes stretching from eastern Ontario to northern Minnesota and in the cooler Great lakes.

The primary highway for invasive aquatic species the ballast tanks of oceangoing vessels entering the Great lakes is still open.

They can pick up something in the southern Great lakes and pollute Thunder Bay or Duluth said Kerfoot.


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