Human well-being and natural capital indictors for Great Lakes waterfront revitalization.

Revitalization of natural capital amenities at the Great Lakes waterfront can result from sediment remediation, habitat restoration, climate resilience projects, brownfield reuse, economic redevelopment and other efforts. Practical indicators are needed to assess the socioeconomic and cultural benefits of these investments. We compiled U.

Deep Lake Explorer: A web application for crowdsourcing the classification of benthic underwater video from the Laurentian Great Lakes.

Underwater video is increasingly used to study aspects of the Great Lakes benthos including the abundance of round goby and dreissenid mussels. The introduction of these two species have resulted in major ecological shifts in the Great Lakes, but the species and their impacts have heretofore been underassessed due to limitations of monitoring methods. Underwater video (UVID) can "sample" hard bottom sites where grab samplers cannot.

A synoptic assessment of water quality in two Great Lakes connecting channels.

We conducted a probabilistic water quality assessment of two Great Lakes connecting channels, the St. Marys River, and the Lake Huron-Lake Erie Corridor (HEC) in 2014-2015. We compared the condition of the channels to each other and to the up- and down-river Great Lakes with data from an assessment of the Great Lakes nearshore conducted in 2015.