Project Name: Project Baseline Midwest

Country: United States

Project Manager:  Marcus Doshi

This project is located in the Midwest USA, focusing on the Great Lakes, with future expansion to adjacent sites. The Great Lakes are facing many threats (zebra and quagga mussel infestation, for example) and our group, Midwest Underwater Explorers, will document temperature and visibility via a two pronged approach beginning at our first site, southern Lake Michigan. The first is to install temperature data recorders on shipwrecks, data from which will be downloaded on an annual basis. The second is to install a series of “citizen science” visibility and temperature logging stations alongside popular shipwrecks. For these, dive boats will carry info cards so anyone diving those wrecks can gather temperature and visibility info and upload them via QR code to a database.

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