Changing Shorelines in the Great Lakes

This brief bulletin is published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment Canada and summarizes the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes, and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. The report covers topics including temperature, precipitation, water levels, drought, storm impacts, and ice cover, and is published roughly four weeks after the end of each season in March, June, September, and December covering Winter (December–February), Spring (March–May), Summer (June–August), and Fall (September–November). 

You can access past quarterly reports at the National Integrated Drought Information System website.

Recommended Reading List:

• Arnold, P. P. (2023). The Urgency of Indigenous Values. [United States], Syracuse University Press.

•  Cajete, Gregory – Editor (1999). A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living. Clear Light Pub

•  Cajete, G. A. (2020). Indigenous Science, Climate Change, and Indigenous Community Building: A Framework of Foundational Perspectives for Indigenous Community Resilience and Revitalization. Sustainability (Basel, Switzerland), 12(22)

•  Chisholm Hatfield, Samantha (2018). Review: Indigenous knowledge of the land and resources for optimization: redefining what management really means. Ecology, Vol. 99, No. 7

•  Cronon, William (2003). Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. Hill and Wang

•  Deloria Jr., Vine (2022).  C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature and the Primitive. Fulcrum Publishing, Wheat Ridge, Colorado

• Deloria Jr., Vine (2004).  Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths: A Critical Inquiry. Fulcrum Publishing, Wheat Ridge, Colorado

•  Good Feather (2021) Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World. Hay House Inc.

•  Krawec (2022) Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

•  Menzies, Charles (2006). Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management. University of Nebraska Press.

•  Native Voices. (2005). Basic call to consciousness.

•  Nelson, M. K., & Shilling, D. (2018). Traditional ecological knowledge: learning from indigenous practices for environmental sustainability. [First edition]. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, Cambridge University Press.