Because of numerous historic changes that have occurred, the Laurentian Great Lakes serve as prime examples of how complex systems respond to large-scale, and temporally dynamic perturbations.

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Climate-driven perturbations have been well documented across the Great Lakes Basin. Temperature extremes and precipitation events are intensifying; extremes in lake water levels are occurring at greater frequencies; and the intensity and frequency of storm events are changing, affecting both coastal communities and the physical behavior of the lakes themselves.

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The Climate-Governance Variability in the Great Lakes, an National Science Foundation funded Research Coordination Network (RCN), will bring diverse scholars together to generate a Great Lakes wide evaluation of climate-driven variability, while exploring the varying time scales of coastal disturbance and community adaptation.

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