Many see winter as a dormant season for the Great Lakes, but U-M researchers are finding activity and insights on a recent trek to Lake Huron. Teams from 19 U.S. and Canadian institutions, including U-M, braved the elements to sample at 35 sites on all five Great Lakes during the Winter Grab, a first-of-its-kind coordinated winter sampling campaign. Casey Godwin, biogeochemist and a member of the research faculty at U-M’s Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) and the School for Environment and Sustainability, discusses their sampling efforts and surprising findings.
