Originally published by GLOS

Michigan Tech scientists from the Great Lakes Research Center have installed a full-sized meteorological buoy outside Small Craft, a waterfront craft cocktail and event space on the Keweenaw Waterway in Hancock, Michigan, to give visitors a firsthand view into how weather and wave data are collected across the Great Lakes. This landfast buoy hull, donated by OTT Hydromet, is affixed with a weather station supported by GLOS to fill an important gap in water-level weather observations in Hancock and Houghton.

The buoy is meant to be an approachable insight into the fleet of dozens of similar buoy systems deployed around the Great Lakes each year. Like other buoys, this station will stream its real-time weather data directly to GLOS’ interactive data portal Seagull where users can access local weather and water data from the numerous stations seasonally deployed around the Great Lakes.