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York Great Lakes Research Initiative for Science and Education |
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The
Need to Expand New York’s Great Lakes Research Capacity.
The
Great Lakes Research Consortium in cooperation with our member institutions
announces our plans to significantly improve New York’s Great
Lakes research infrastructure. We plan on expanding our current
network of field stations, vessels and educational facilities
throughout New York’s Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region. Our
number one priority is to improve the Great Lakes through scientific
understanding and technological advances. There are few issues more
important for Upstate New York than the health of the Great Lakes
environment.
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the following:
- Nearly
three million New Yorkers depend on the Great Lakes for drinking
water.
- Over six
million people annually visit parks along New York’s Great
Lakes corridor.
- Clean
fresh water is likely to be the most important resource for
future economic development and settlement patterns in the US.
- Nearly
80 million tons of cargo move through New York’s Great
Lakes ports.
- Anglers
spend around $134 million per year at New York’s Great
Lakes fishing locations. Many upstate small businesses cater
to the fishing public.
- Better
than half the land in New York’s Lake Erie and Ontario
basins is in agricultural use.
- Among the
Great Lakes states, New York ranks first in hydroelectricity
production, supplying around 10% of the entire state’s
power demand.
- New York
has the second longest shoreline of any of the Great Lakes States.
We have a significant portion of what is, in effect, the North
Coast of the United States.
- The products
and services of water protection, environmental clean-up and
habitat restoration are a multi-billion dollar industry and
one that is guaranteed to grow. New York can and should be in
the lead.
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Great
Lakes Research
Consortium scientists have
been warning for some time
that despite the clean-up successes
of the last two decades,
New York’s Great Lakes are highly altered ecosystems, unstable
and prone to crisis. |
The
Growing Great Lakes Crisis
The
Crisis of the Late 1960s and 70s
The
Scientific Response
The
Origins of the Great Lakes Research Consortium
The
Need to Support Science in New York
New
York Has Not Recieved Its Fair Share of Federal Great Lakes Funding |
New
York's Great Lakes Facilities Network |
-
Great Lakes Center at Buffalo
- Great
Lakes Center at Brockport
- Environmental
Research Center at Oswego
- GLRC
Headquarters
- Cornell
Biological Field Station
- SUNY
ESF Thousand Islands Biological Field station
- Great
Rivers Center
- Lake
Champlain Research Institute
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To learn
more about the facilities of the GLRC network, their current research
projects, research specialties, facilities, and needed upgrades,
click on any location above
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