UM: Great Lakes

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Crain’s Detroit Business reports that UM, along with Michigan State University, is launching an ambitious project to study the effect of climate change on the Great Lakes. The universities received a $4.2 million federal grant to create the Great Lakes Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center. Donald Scavia, a UM aquatic ecologist and co-leader of the future center, says the Great Lakes will be greatly affected by climate change: “Tourism and agriculture, in particular, are extremely vulnerable, and disruption to those sectors will have wide-ranging detrimental effects for an already-struggling Great Lakes economy.” [Source]