Seasonal
Spring
- Bug season
- Plants are growing!
- The buoys get deployed!
Summer
- Falling Fruit is a wiki-like database of fruit-picking locations
- Bug season
Fall
- Enter photos in the Lake Superior Magazine Photo Contest (2019 contest link)
- Mushrooms start to come out at the end of August
Winter
Weather measurement/prediction
- John Dee forecast graphic, text and max temps/winds
- NOAA Modeled Snow Depth
- Great Lakes water currents
- Wind map based on NOAA data
- GOES-16 Wavelength 0.64 µm (used for: daytime clouds, fog, insolation, winds)
- Windy.com
- Ventusky
- Great Lakes Observing System Data Portal/Facebook page
Aurora
Mapping/GIS
- Michigan CFR land map
- Google Maps
- Caltopo
- NOAA Navigational Chart Browser (and the Keweenaw peninsula chart)
- Bedrock shoreline surveys of the Keweenaw Peninsula and Drummond Island in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (direct link)
- Various Duluth maps
Tools
- Hillmap.com makes it easy to measure elevation profiles using Google Maps
- Pentwater depth measurement technique using a fish finder
- QGIS is an open-source GIS tool that Alex is learning
- Terrapattern is a future sat map feature ID tool
Imagery
- Great Lakes Oblique Imagery – airplane images of all of the great lakes’ US borders
- Lake Superior Shoreviewer
- MODIS imagery
Webcams
- Highway webcams in Michigan
- 906 Technologies live streams
- Mackinac Bridge
- Munising
- Michigan Tech
- Lake Superior Magazine
- Pasty.net
- Lake Superior Streams
- Bayfield Yacht Club webcams
- Bayfield
- Map of Duluth-area cams
- Lift bridge falcon cameras
Water
Cultural/geographic
Keweenaw
Get stoked
- The 50 Best Weekend Winter Getaways ranks the UP at #1 (Men’s Journal)