Researcher Harvey Bootsma from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Freshwater Sciences prepares to place a data buoy on Lake Michigan's Good Harbor Bay. | Photo courtesy National Park Service
EMPIRE, MICH. -- Anyone around the world can access real-time information about water conditions at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore — and even see video of what’s happening beneath the water’s surface — thanks to a yellow buoy bobbing out in Good Harbor Bay.
As part of a collaborative monitoring and research project, the buoy shares wave height, wind speed and direction, air and water temperatures, humidity, and other data, updated every half hour.
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