A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake nytimes.com/interactive/20… Fascinating article on how a "dialed-in" Chicago lakefront is not ready for the extreme fluctuations in water levels that climate change may bring.

First week of classes under our collective belts here at #Purdue. Lots of great energy on campus this semester! Hoping we can stick to in-person classes for the whole semester.

Great Lakes water levels have had extreme highs & lows over the last decade, creating pressure on the shoreline. #SeaGrantFunded researchers are working on coastline erosion management options: iiseagrant.org/lake-michigan-… @PurdueCE MTU Research UW-Madison College of Engineering

Summer stratification in Lake Geneva isolates the bottom layers of the lake from wind-driven turbulent mixing. LéXPLORE Léman EPFL-ENAC @Aphys_Eawag OceanEarthUniSoton Hugo N. Ulloa Damien Bouffard Sébastien Lavanchy Troy Lab Purdue Sebastiano Piccolroaz Bieito Fernández Castro nature.com/articles/s4324…

Always great donning the Santa suits this time of year in the name of Lake Michigan science! Unless the suit leaks profusely…. But the data rocks! Last microstructure of 2021 around these parts. Happy holidays everyone! Rockland Scientific Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant @PurdueCE

Our new paper - congrats to grad student Hazem Abdelhady! A Simple, Fully Automated Shoreline Detection Algorithm for High-Resolution Multi-Spectral Imagery mdpi.com/1466166 #mdpiremotesensing via Remote Sensing MDPI

Great day of microstructure profiling on Lake Michigan, trying to quantify turbulent mixing rates before stratification sets in. ~2km of hand-pulled profiles!! Beautiful weather (for April) and fingers crossed that the data cooperate...#LakeMichigan Rockland Scientific @PurdueCE

Lake Michigan Upwelling - Michigan Coast Simulations by my student Sultan Ahmed a few years ago show the upwelling that is chilling so many Michigan swimmers lately! #LakeMichigan #Upwelling youtu.be/kr-TEqy_tO0

Community Scientists Recover Micrometeorites from Lake Michigan - Eos eos.org/articles/commu… Really cool story about a community science effort in Lake Michigan. Those kids must have been stoked when they realized what they found!!

Here's a cool video for #FlumeFriday... an experiment I did ages ago during my Ph.D. for fun with Jeff Koseff but is just now seeing the light of day it deserves. Just submitted it to this year's Gallery of Fluid Motion at the upcoming APS meeting. youtu.be/onVu-inwAFU

Great workshop with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District this week! Lots of great discussion and ideas.

Congratulations to Hazem Usama Abdelhady, winner of the 2023 IAGLR Scholarship. Researching #GreatLakes shoreline changes from rapid water level fluctuations Troy Lab Purdue @PurdueCE

Great meeting of the Indiana Water Resources Association Indiana Water Resources Association this week at Purdue!! Our lab presented findings on #LakeMichigan shoreline erosion...Takeaway from our recently submitted paper: recent erosion could have been worse, believe it or not!

Announcing Call for Papers for a special section in Journal of Great Lakes Research on #GreatLakes Coastal Processes. Accepting submissions Oct 1, 2023 – March 31, 2024. See bit.ly/3ReR631

The Lyles School of Civil Engineering's undergraduate program has been ranked #4 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. Details: bit.ly/46gyP9S

Always a great work day when you are at the lake. Still some good field days left in the season....

Cool Great Lakes Now episode that includes discussion about the Indiana shoreline issues: greatlakesnow.org/rivers-of-wate…

I'm excited to promote our new Great Lakes ice prediction model paper in J. Hydrology. The model rivals the accuracy of traditional physics-based models. Congrats to Dr. Hazem Abdelhady on this great work. Read for free here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kD3H52cufBlp

NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory is an amazing laboratory full of brilliant scientists who work incredibly hard to help preserve the Great Lakes as a resource for generations of future Americans.

Check out our new Lake Michigan shoreline erosion paper here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kbvx,3sl42s… Thank you NOAA Sea Grants Wisconsin Sea Grant @ILINSeaGrants and BlueSky-MichSeaGrant for funding this work and kickstarting a great multi-university collaboration.