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COASTS – Citizens Observing and Surveying the Shoreline

A citizen science beach change project

COASTS – Citizens Observing and Surveying the Shoreline

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IL Coastal Geology in the News

August 2018

  • Chicago Tribune- New buoys recording water conditions are “smartest, smallest” in Lake Michigan

July 2018

  • Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Newsroom – Nearshore buoys deployed off Waukegan and Winthrop Harbor
  • Chicago Tribune- What happens when Lake Superior has too much water? It dumps it into an already overflowing Lake Michigan

April 2018

  • CBS Chicago – Beach Erosion Could Jeopardize Swim Season
  • Daily North Shore – Lake Bluff Parks Studying Beach Erosion

January 2018

  • Chicago Tribune- Wetland erosion from rising lake levels could create new source of carbon emissions

June 2017

  • Chicago Tribune- North Shore communities find combating loss of sand a costly undertaking
  • Chicago Tribune- Boosted by rain, Lake Michigan approaches 20-year high water level

May 2017

  • Chicago Tribune- Lake Michigan shoreline erosion could be getting worse, research shows
  • Cook County Chronicle- Chicago Park District focuses on erosion as shrinking beaches remain

March 2017

  • Al Jazeera U.S. – U.S. scientists gauge coastal erosion along Lake Michigan
  • Chicago Tribune – Illinois geologists to launch helicopter survey of sand in Lake Michigan
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