Salmon Unlimited buoy has been recovered for the season… and I can tell when y’all been fishing too close… 🤨🤪 Also, desperate times sometimes call for desperate cribbage boards. UWM School of Freshwater Sciences Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) Salmon Unlimited Wi

A buoy season haiku: winds and waves rising, buoys yearning for respite. at last, all are home. Still not quitting my day job… 😅 UWM School of Freshwater Sciences Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS)

happy holidays from Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Tech (where we are retiring all TIDAS buoys and commencing builds with FondriestEnv Freeboard Technology CIGLR for 5 new buoys!) - hence a bare fiberglass mast being available for decoration.

Buoy weather sensor upgrades - can you tell which ones are being retired this year? 💛 UWM School of Freshwater Sciences Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) FondriestEnv Lufft

NOAA’s Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary buoy is coming together nicely! Pretty proud of this DIY lid situation. Keep an eye out for another beefy long-term monitoring platform offshore of Sheboygan this year 💚 Sanctuaries (NOAA) UWM School of Freshwater Sciences FondriestEnv

Atwater buoy is locked and loaded - ready for launch! 💚 UWM School of Freshwater Sciences Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS)

Current water temp at the Atwater buoy is a chilly 43.2°F Fun fact, I was today years old when I learned how to find the degree symbol on my phone. 🤓 Data is also live NWS_DataBuoyCenter - curious where our local weather teams pull water temps from? 👀 Rob Haswell Mark Baden

Salmon Unlimited buoy 45199 is on her way to Racine for deployment! Channeling my inner Girl Scout by making friendship bracelets with some mooring gear while underway. 🤓 Salmon Unlimited Wi Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) UWM School of Freshwater Sciences

Another day, another buoy! Acronyms & partners abound for this system but the Sheboygan Shipwreck Sentinel 45218 is now live! Thanks for a fun, safe, & successful mission, NOAA dudes! 🤘🏻 Sanctuaries (NOAA) NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Fund for Lake MI Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) NWS_DataBuoyCenter

Three locations down, two to go! Buoy season is in full swing. I may or may not need at least 2 weeks off and a 4 hour massage and manicure after the last buoy drops 🧘‍♀️🧖‍♀️💅

Green Bay buoy 45014 is on her way north for deployment! Keep your peepers peeled for live data tomorrow afternoon. 💚 Also… the Sheboygan SWC buoy 45218 has been behaving badly, so she’ll be hauled in for inspection on Friday. Keep your🤞🏻 for a quick rehabilitation. ❤️‍🩹

Welp - things got a little dicey today and we decided it would be unsafe to continue with 45014’s deployment (despite this photo, which was taken much later after said dicey-times.) We’ll try again in a few weeks. 😞

I’m super late to repost this… and it may or may not be because I’m painfully shy and slightly embarrassed of my THICK Wisconsin accent, but hey, it was fun! 🤩 #ope #yeahbuoy UWM School of Freshwater Sciences Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS)

Guys guys guys the SWC buoy’s temperature data is magically working. Data is available for the past week - proof that buoy gremlins DO exist and we all just try to work in their mischievous universe. And yes I was so excited I opted for a photo of my comp screen. 😅

You know your boss is cool when they bring you an old manual about oceanographic winch, wire, and cable technology to show you this drawing. Just to help brighten your day. P.S. It totally worked 😊 UWM School of Freshwater Sciences

But more importantly the crew loved the summery beany salad I made for them 😁