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Expansion and Modernization of Irrigation in AP under N. Chandrababu Naidu Leadership

TDP policies under the governance of N. Chandrababu Naidu between the years 1994-2003 led to a significant expansion and modernization of irrigation in Andhra Pradesh. During this time, 10 lakh acres of irrigation were stabilized, and 18 lakh acres of gap irrigation were achieved. However, the total cultivable land in the state is 392.7 lakh acres, out of which only 133.64 lakh acres are under colourful water sources. Andhra Pradesh receives 2764 TMCs of water from various sources like Godavari, Krishna, Penna, and Vamsadhara, with an additional 960 TMCs of water expected to be utilized in 292 systems under construction. To utilize their share in the swash waters, Andhra Pradesh is seeking inter-state agreements regarding Ichampalli, Polavaram, Ellampalli, Lendi Pen Ganga, and Janjhavati Munnu systems.

One of the projects undertaken by Nara Chandrababu Naidu during this time was the modernization of the K.C. canal through the Japan Bank for International Operation (JBIP) scheme. The project was estimated to cost Rs. 1033.70 crores, with Rs.555 crores allocated to KBIC. As of March 2003, Rs. 403.44 crores had been spent, and an additional Rs. 216.56 crores were allocated in the budget for 2003-04 to complete the remaining work. This project aimed to irrigate the drought-prone districts of Kurnool and Kadapa. This is said to be the major achievement of TDP in the Irrigation sector

The Sri Ramsagar Project was also undertaken in two phases, with the first phase aiming to irrigate 9,68,632 acres through the construction of the Krakatoa canal, Sara Swati canal, and Lakshmi canal. Under the AP3 scheme, work was in progress to stabilize 5,17,000 acres at an expenditure of Rs. 930.20 crores until March 2003. The estimate for the project was Rs. 2562.74 crores.

The Srisailam right bank canal project aimed to provide irrigation to 1,90,000 acres in drought-prone areas like Nandyala, Banaganapalli, and Koilakuntla areas of Kurnool district and Jammalamadugu of Kadapa district. While only 37% of the work was completed by the deadline of June 1994, the present government resumed the work with the help of Rita below -3. The cost of the project was estimated at Rs. 932.20 crores, with expenditure reaching Rs. 745.86 crores by March 2003. In 2003-04, Rs. 139.18 crores were allocated to irrigate 60,000 acres. Get more info on TDP schemes and developments of TDP by visiting the TDPs official website.

Assistance from NABARD was also sought for the creation of 397 schemes, including 17 lakh medium, 202 small, and 136 uplift schemes, at the cost of Rs. 1473 crores to irrigate 9,74,110 acres. Completion of 10 major, 28 medium, 117 minor, and 67 uplift schemes has already irrigated 5,60,535 acres, with Rs. 1109 crores spent until December 2002. Get updated on Flash news and live updates of your district by visiting the TDPs official website.

Various financial institutions, such as the World Bank, JBIC, BP, and Irrigation Bonds, have been providing financial assistance to ongoing irrigation projects. The construction of flood tide drainage conduit systems from Srisailam Right Branch Canal, Sriramsagar 1st Phase, 2nd Phase, Telugu Ganga Project, Eliminatei Madhavareddy Canal, Priyadarshini J

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Irrigation Expansion and Modernization by N. Chandrababu Naidu

Between 1994- 2003, history was created in the field of irrigation by achieving the stabilization of 10 lakh acres of irrigation and 18 lakh acres of gap irrigation by Top TDP policies. Cultivable land in the state of Andhra Pradesh is 392.7 lakh acres, out of which 296 lakh acres are cultivated. Out of which the area under colorful water sources is only 133.64 lakh acres. Our state gets 2764 TMCs of water from numerous lower gutters like Godavari, Krishna, Penna, Vamsadhara, etc. It's only what Andhra Pradesh is using so far. Another 960 TMCs of water are anticipated to be used. In this 292 systems are under construction. 1804T.M.C.s. You may stay updated on TDP latest news by reaching our website.

Construction of flood tide drainage conduit systems from Srisailam Right Branch Canal, Sriramsagar 1st Phase, 2nd Phase, Telugu Ganga Project, Eliminatei Madhavareddy Canal, Priyadarshini Jurala Project, Somasila, Vamsadhara 2nd Phase, S.R.S.P. World Bank, JBIC, AI for timely completion of ongoing 18 medium systems and 85 small systems. BP, NABARD, and Irrigation Bonds have handed fiscal coffers and the work is going on in full swing. Veligonda, Galeru- Nagari, Handri- Neeva, Nettempaduetc. Systems are going on presto. In an attempt to completely use our share in the swash waters, for inter-state agreements regarding Ichampalli, Polavaram, Ellampalli, Lendi Pen Ganga, and Janjhavati Munnu systems, the central blessing is ongoing- In the times 1994- 2003, fresh irrigation was handed to 10.697 lakh acres at a record cost ofRs. 8865 crores. Sweats are being made to achieve 4.84 lakh acres of irrigation in the Larry, medium, and small irrigation sectors in the time 2003- 04. For more achievements of Nara Chandrababu Naidu, visit our website.

 K.C. Canal modernization

Through the Japan Bank for International Operation (JBIP) scheme, K.C. irrigates the drought-prone districts of Kurnool and Kadapa. The canal modernization project has been designed at an estimated cost of Rs.1033.70 crores and Rs.555 crores have been allocated to KBIC. Works were undertaken with assistance. 403.44 crores had been spent as of March 2003, and Rs.216.56 crores have been allocated in the budget for the year 2003-04 to carry out the remaining works.

World Bank-assisted projects

Sri Ramsagar Project-1st Phase

This project is planned to be built in 2 phases, Kakatiya canal is 284 km, Saraswati canal is 47 km, and Lakshmi canal is 35 km under the 1st phase. The structure is intended to irrigate 9,68,632 acres. The total estimate is Rs.2562.74 crores, work is in progress to stabilize 5,17,000 acres at an expenditure of Rs.930.20 crores till March 2003 under the AP3 scheme.

Srisailam right bank canal

The scheme is intended to provide irrigation to 1,90,000 acres in drought-prone areas like Nandyala, Banaganapalli, and Koilakuntla areas of Kurnool district, Jammalamadugu of Kadapa district. A.P. Under -2, only 37 percent of the work was completed by the deadline of June 1994, despite World Bank assistance. The present government returned to A.P. Undertakes the work with the help of Rita below -3. The estimated amount was Rs.932.20 crores while the expenditure in March 2003 was Rs.745.86 crores. - In 2003-04, 139.18 crores have been allocated to irrigate 60 thousand acres.

NABARD Assistance Works A total of 397 schemes (17 La 36 Medium, -202 Small 136 Uplifts) will be sanctioned at a cost of Rs.1473 crores to create a new ayakattu of 9,74,110 acres from RIDF-1 to RIDF-7, of which so far Completion of 10 major, 28 medium, 117 minor and 67 uplift schemes irrigates 5,60,535 acres. Till December 2002, Rs.1109 crores have been spent on it. Efforts are underway to complete 169 schemes in 2003-04.

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EPA Awards $75,000 Environmental Justice Grant to KBIC | News, Sports, Jobs

EPA Awards $75,000 Environmental Justice Grant to KBIC | News, Sports, Jobs

CHICAGO, Ill. — Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it has awarded $75,000 to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community under the Environmental Justice Small Grants program. The funding will provide support to identify legacy and current environmental pollutants in the community, conduct an environmental risk assessment and develop materials to distribute project findings.  “EPA’s…

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Second Annual Anishinaabe Racial Justice Conference Set for May 24th - 26th

Second Annual Anishinaabe Racial Justice Conference Set for May 24th – 26th

Youth Panelists on Racial Justice, NJC Director Cecelia LaPointe, and KBIC youth attendees at the 2018 Anishinaabe Racial Justice Conference.

Published May 19, 2019

Native Justice Coalition hosting Anishinaabe Racial Justice Conference May 24-26

BARAGA, Mich. — The Native Justice Coalition, along with various community partners, will host the second annual Anishinaabe Racial Justice Conference on…

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Small Grants RFP to fund 8 Copper Country projects

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Small Grants RFP to fund 8 Copper Country projects

COPPER COUNTY, Mich. (WLUC) – A record number of applications came in for Portage Health Foundation’s annual Small Grants Request for Proposals (RFP), and after much deliberation, eight projects throughout the Copper Country will receive funding.

The programs include park improvements, support dogs for area schools, a unique program meant to improve elder wellness at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and more. All funding will help improve the health of community members of nearly every age. Below is an introduction to the eight projects that were funded. PHF would like to thank all of those who applied for funding and urge them to keep the foundation in mind for future needs.

Elder Wellness Program by Keweenaw Bay Indian Community ($3,000)

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) will use funds to create and deliver a summer elder and area senior wellness program. The Elder Wellness Program will tailor its wellness services to support initiatives put forth by Indian Health Services (IHS). IHS works to support the emotional, spiritual and physical well-being of Tribal Elders. In addition, wellness classes will be designed with Health Aging guidelines published by the National Institute on Aging.

District Support Dog for Adams Township Schools ($3,000)

Adams Township Schools will soon have access to a support dog that will provide a source of positive reinforcement for students of all ages. The support dog is hoped to be motivating, stimulating and provide an additional layer of support for focusing on learning. The dog will be handled by K-12 Art Educator Paige Lewandowski, which will allow the dog to see students in both the elementary school and the middle/high school.

Outside Classroom Renovation for Calumet Art Center ($3,000)

The Calumet Art Center will use funding to create an outdoor space for learning and creating. They will use this space for classes that not only give the opportunity to learn new skills, but also give adults and children a chance to socialize. The renovated space will give a courtyard environment, with an outdoor water spicket to water the lawn and gardens, and an in-ground fire pit to fire pottery, make copper bowls and use as a social gathering space.

District Support Dog for Dollar Bay-Tamarack City Area Schools ($1,500)

This year students at Dollar Bay-Tamarack City Area Schools have enjoyed the presence of Bolt – the school’s new therapy dog (pictured here). Bolt is still a puppy and because of that wasn’t in full duty this year, but he’s already assisting by providing critical tools for learning, engaging in social relationships, and behavior and emotional regulation during these critical years in a student’s emotional development. This funding is helping to provide veterinary care, training and supplies to make sure Bolt is ready for full-time duty in the fall.

Drinking Fountain at Driving Park for City of Hancock ($3,000)

One of the busiest areas for summer youth athletic activities is getting an upgrade with a new water fountain. The fountain will include a water bottle filling station and is a joint effort between grant funds from PHF, fundraisers by sports teams and the City of Hancock’s Recreation Millage funds. The city will install and maintain the new fountain that will provide clean, safe drinking water for users of the ball fields and surrounding outdoor recreation opportunities like Maasto Hiihto Trails and the new dog park.

Gipp Playground Improvement for Village of Laurium ($3,000)

The Village of Laurium will use funds to upgrade the playground at the Gipp Recreation Park. The park will now meet the needs of individuals with special needs and requirements with the installation of a handicap swing. The long-term impact of this improvement will provide a greater quality of life for Laurium and surrounding residents that would benefit from this type of equipment.

Live Search Team Tracking Devices for Superior Search & Rescue ($3,000)

The volunteers at Superior Search and Rescue will be a little safer after a $3,000 grant to purchase new Garmin Inreach GPS units. The units will be used by teams in the field for navigation and replace units that are starting to fail. The new units will not only provide updated maps for the volunteers, but they provide the ability to live track teams in the field in a small handheld unit. During a missing person incident, time is of the essence and every minute counts, having live data of a team’s location will allow for less confusion and improve the team’s ability to succeed in their mission.

Nature Trail Improvements for Ontonagon Area Schools ($700)

Students at Ontonagon Area Schools have been enjoying their fitness/hiking/nature trails west of the school for a long time, and this summer they will be able to do some much-needed repairs thanks to $700 in funding. The funding will buy the materials, which will be used by volunteers to do repairs to two failing and currently dangerous bridges. In the end, it will result in trail loops that will once again be safe for year-round use.

The Small Grants Program allows for grants up to $3,000. It was announced on March 14 with applications due on April 8. The winners were chosen by the Foundation’s Grants Management Committee. The community is invited to subscribe to the Portage Health Foundation email newsletter to make sure they find out about future funding opportunities as soon as possible. You can subscribe free at phfgive.org/newsletter. Learn more about grant opportunities at phfgive.org/grants.

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東京大学と IBM、日本初のゲート型商用量子コンピューターを始動

国立大学法人東京大学とIBMは、日本初のゲート型商用量子コンピューティング・システム「IBM Quantum System One（QSO）」の「新川崎・創造のもり かわさき新産業創造センター（KBIC）」における稼働開始を発表しました。 同社はこのシステムを「日本で最も強力な量子コンピューター」と説明しているが、システムが持つ量子ビット数についての詳細については述べてはいません。 今回のプレスリリースには詳細は記載されていませんが、IBMはこれまで、QSOは日本のIBM施設に設置され、同社が所有・運営すると話していました。 IBM シニア・バイス・プレジデント、IBM Researchディレクターのダリオ・ギル博士は次のように述べています。「IBM…

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셀트리온/셀트리온헬스케어 코로나19 항체 치료제 조건부 사용 승인 신청 기대감에 강세 ▷언론에 따르면, 전일 이낙연 더불어민주당 대표는 국산 코로나 치료제의 조건부 사용 승인 신청이 내일 접수된다며, 내년 1월 중 승인 여부를 결정할 것으로 보인다고 밝힌 것으로 전해짐. 이낙연 대표가 언급한 국산 코로나 치료제는 셀트리온의 항체 치료제 CT-P59로 알려졌으며, 조건부 승인은 치료제 등이 없는 경우 임상 3상을 추후 하는 조건으로 시판 허가를 내주는 제도로 알려짐. ▷셀트리온이 코로나 항체 치료제 조건부 허가를 신청하면 식약처는 이르면 내년 1월 중순, 늦어도 2월 초에는 결과를 발표할 것으로 알려졌으며, 최근 국내 코로나19 확산에 따라 치료제 심사를 더욱 앞당길 것이란 관측도 제기되는 것으로 알려짐. ▷한편, 전일 개최된 2020 대한민국 바이오투자 콘퍼런스에서 기우성 셀트리온그룹 부회장은 셀트리온은 CT-P59에 대해 식약처 조건부 승인을 신청할 수 있는 준비를 마쳤다며, 조건부 승인 신청은 연내 이뤄질 예정이라고 밝힘. 또한, 변이된 코로나19 바이러스에도 CT-P59가 실제 작용하는 것을 확인했다고 밝힘. [종목] : 셀트리온, 셀트리온헬스케어 DB하이텍 (000990) 내년 사상 최대 실적 전망 등에 강세 ▷신한금융투자는 동사에 대해 내년 매출액은 1조283억원(+9.5% YoY), 영업이익은 3,061억원(+16.3% YoY)으로 사상 최대 실적을 기록할 것으로 전망. 이는 8인치 파운드리 공급 부족에 의한 ASP 상승 모멘텀, 매력적인 밸류에이션(21F PER 9.3배), 과거와 다른 재무 건전성(21F 부채비율 45.5%) 등 때문이라고 언급. ▷한편, 올해 4분기 매출액은 2,312억원(+9.0% YoY), 영업이익은 543억원(+13.6% YoY)을 기록할 것으로 전망. 이는 인센티브를 약 100억원 반영한 추정치이며, 비우호적인 환율 흐름에도 불구하고 전년동기대비 개선될 것으로 분석. ▷투자의견 : BUY[유지], 목표주가 : 47,000원 → 60,000원[상향] OCI (010060) 내년 폴리실리콘 업황 호조 기대감에 강세 ▷현대차증권은 동사에 대해 내년에도 폴리실리콘 업황이 호조를 보일 것이라며 이에 따른 수혜가 기대된다고 밝힘. 최근 폴리실리콘 가격이 강한 태양광 설치 수요를 반영해 반등세를 보이고 있으며, 올해 코로나19에도 불구하고 태양광 설치 수요가 하반기 강세를 보이고 있어 내년에도 높은 수요가 지속될 것으로 전망. ▷아울러 말레이시아 공장 증설을 발표했다며, 현재 30,000톤/년 생산설비는 2022년말 35,000톤/년으로 확대될 것으로 전망. 또한, 최근 Carbon Footprint에 대한 관심 상승으로 말레이시아 공장 가치가 더욱 부각될 것으로 전망. ▷투자의견 : BUY[유지], 목표주가 : 80,000원 → 110,000원[상향] 한화솔루션 (009830) 태양광 및 수소 산업 사업 영역 확대에 따른 지속적인 성장 기대감에 상승 ▷NH투자증권은 동사에 대해 대규모 유상증자를 통해 태양광 및 수소 산업에서 사업 영역을 확장해 지속적인 성장을 이어갈 것으로 전망. 유상증자 대금 1.2조원 가운데 태양광 사업에 1조원, 수소사업에 0.2조원을 투자할 계획이라며 특히 태양광 사업 매출액은 2020년 약 3.5조원에서 2025년 12조원으로 증가할 것으로 전망. ▷내년 태양광 사업 영업이익은 2,750억원으로 전년대비 소폭 증가에 불과하지만 이는 설비 전환과 발전 사업 초기 투자에 따른 비용 때문이라고 밝힘. 모듈 효율이 상승하는 2022년 태양광 사업 영업이익은 4,340억원으로 추정하며 2025년까지 증가할 것으로 전망. ▷투자의견 : BUY[유지], 목표주가 : 65,000원[유지] HMM (011200) 컨테이너선 운임 강세로 4분기 실적 기대치 상회 전망 등에 상승 ▷대신증권은 동사에 대해 4분기 매출액은 1.81조원, 영업이익은 4,424억원을 기록해 당사의 직전 추정 및 시장 기대치를 상회할 것으로 전망. 이는 컨테이너 운임 상승 등 때문으로 분석. ▷아울러 내년 코로나 팬데믹 완화에 따른 경기회복으로 인한 물동량 증가세 지속 등으로 내년에도 컨테이너업황이 긍정적일 것으로 분석. ▷투자의견 : BUY[유지], 목표주가 : 17,000원 → 18,500원[상향] 동양피스톤 (092780) 전기차 부품 양산 계획 발표에 상승 ▷사업구조 다각화 및 신성장동력 확보 목적으로 전기차 부품 생산을 통한 친환경차 라인업 확대 공시. 이와 관련 동사는 방열모듈, 에어서스펜션 용 Separate Assy 등 전기자동차에 적용될 부품 양산을 계획하고 있으며, 이를 통하여 사업구조 다각화 및 친환경차 전문 기업으로 사업경쟁력을 확보해나갈 것이라고 밝힘. 한세엠케이 (069640) 모회사와 지주회사 간의 주식 양수도 계약 체결 속 급락 ▷전일 장 마감 후 모회사 한세실업(주)과 지주회사 한세예스24홀딩스(주) 간의 주식 양수도 계약 체결 공시. 매매 주식수는 총 6,554,031주(총발행주식수의 50.77%)이며, 양수도대금 총액은 257.90억원(주당 3,935원) 규모임.

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  OQP (078590) '난소암 면역 항암제 '오레고보맙' 글로벌 병용임상 추진 소식에 급등 ▷일부 언론에 따르면, 동사는 전일 열린 ’2020 대한민국 바이오 투자 콘퍼런스(KBIC)’에서 난소암 면역 항암제 ‘오레고보맙’에 대해 다양한 병용 요법으로 글로벌 임상을 추진하겠다고 밝힌 것으로 전해짐. 이와 관련 황지영 부사장은 "2024년 임상을 마친 후 2025년 미국과 유럽에서 신약허가(BLA)를 받아 2026년부터 시판할 계획"이라며, “신약이 출시되면 2037년까지 동사가 독점권을 갖게 된다”고 설명. 조이시티/위즈코프/오파스넷/아이원스/노바텍 권배락 효과 발생에 강세 ▷전일 장 마감 후 조이시티, 위즈코프, 오파스넷, 아이원스, 노바텍 등이 무상증자 및 배당으로 인한 권배락 효과가 금일 발생한다고 공시. [종목] : 위즈코프, 조이시티, 아이원스, 오파스넷, 노바텍 녹십자엠에스 (142280) 2억6,400만 달러 규모 코로나19 항원진단키트 공급계약 체결에 급등 ▷MCA Partners Inc과 총 공급액 2억6,400만 달러 규모 코로나19 항원진단키트(GENEDIA W COVID-19 Ag) 공급계약 체결(계약기간:2020-12-29~2021-12-28) 공시. 삼기 (122350) 전기차용 모터하우징 사업 재편 계획 승인에 급등 ▷기업활력 제고를 위한 특별법 시행에 따라 산업통상자원부에 사업재편 계획(전기차용 모터하우징(친환경차 진출)) 승인 심사를 신청해 승인 받았다고 공시. ▷해당 사업 재편 내용은 기보유한 고압주조 기술을 활용해 고품질 전기차용 모터하우징 생산 플랫폼을 구축하는 것으로 전기자동차 부품 시장에 본격 진출해 새로운 지속 성장 가능 사업을 추가하는 것이라고 밝힘. 파크시스템스 (140860) 글로벌 반도체 미세화 수혜주 분석 등에 급등 ▷키움증권은 동사에 대해 매출액의 대부분을 차지하는 해외 원자현미경 시장이 여전히 개화 초기이며, 2021년부터는 국내 반도체향 원자현미경 시장 개화까지 오버랩되며 성장률 체증 사이클에 진입할 것으로 전망. 이와 관련 글로벌 반도체 미세화 수혜주로의 Re-rating이 기대된다고 밝힘. ▷특히, 파운드리 및 DRAM 등 반도체 공정 난이도 급증으로 해외 시장 내 저변 확대 지속 및 국내 시장 개화 시작 전망으로 2021년 연결실적은 매출액 1,005억원 (+45% YoY), 영업이익 266억원(+69% YoY)으로 사상 최대 실적 경신 사이클이 지속될 것으로 전망. ▷아울러 올해 4분기 실적은 원/달러 환율 하락에도 불구하고 영업이익 64억원(+61% QoQ)의 호실적을 기록할 것으로 전망. ▷투자의견 : BUY[유지], 목표주가 : 92,000원 → 120,000원[상향] 씨젠 (096530) 임원진 자사주 매입에 강세 ▷전일 동사는 전자공시를 통해 임원 26명이 자사주 총 16,299주를 장내 매수했다고 공시. 이는 전일 종가기준 28.81억원 규모임. 동사는 이와 관련해 회사 성장 가능성에 대한 자신감을 공유한 임원진의 자발적인 행보라고 밝힘. 휴림로봇 (090710) 총 140억원 규모 사모 CB발행 결정 속 상승 ▷전일 장 마감 후 타법인 증권 취득자금 등 확보 목적으로 (주)헨리파크 대상 40억원 규모의 사모 전환사채권 발행 결정 공시(전환가액:1,755원, 전환청구일:2021-12-28 ~ 2023-12-27). ▷아울러 타법인 증권 취득자금 확보 목적으로 (주)창원기전 대상 100억원 규모의 사모 전환사채권 발행 결정 공시(전환가액:1,755원, 전환청구일:2021-12-28 ~ 2023-12-27). 피씨엘 (241820) 총 5.67억원 규모 공급계약 체결에 상승 ▷전일 장 마감 후 조달청과 3억원(최근 매출액대비 837.73%) 규모 공급계약(의료용면역형광측정장치) 체결 공시(계약기간:2020-12-24~2021-06-13). ▷아울러 2.67억원(최근 매출액대비 745.65%) 규모 공급계약(의료기기 등) 체결 공시(계약기간:2020-12-24~2021-01-15). 나이벡 (138610) 한국화학연구원과 코로나19 치료제 개발 소식에 상승 ▷동사는 언론을 통해 한국화학연구원이 개발한 항바이러스 치료물질을 도입해 코로나19 바이러스를 사멸시키는 치료제를 개발한다고 밝힘. 동사는 한국화학연구원의 후보 물질에 자체 약물전달 플랫폼인 ‘NIPEP-TPP’을 적용해 코로나 19 치료제 신약 상용화에 나설 계획으로 전해짐. ▷이와 관련, 동사 관계자는 "한국화학연구원이 개발한 후보물질은 이미 우수한 항바이러스성과 안전성이 대외적으로 검증됐기 때문에 기술 이전을 통해 이른 시일 내에 치료제를 개발할 수 있을 것"이라고 밝힘. 시스웍/드래곤플라이 코로나19 진단키트 수요 증가 대처 목적 R&D 및 생산 시설 구축 소식 등에 상승 ▷시스웍은 언론을 통해 관계사인 드래곤플라이와 함께 서울시 송파구에 R&D(연구개발) 및 생산 시설을 구축한다고 밝힘. 이와 관련 시스웍 관계자는 "이번에 구축하는 생산 시설이 3월부터 본격적으로 가동하고, 내년 상반기에 2차 생산 시설 투자를 시작할 계획이며, 2021년 하반기에는 진단키트 5,000만개의 생산 시설 확보를 완료하는 것이 목표"라고 설명. 시스웍은 비비비와 손을 잡고 헬스케어 사업 분야로 진출하겠다는 계획을 밝힌 바 있으며, 코로나19 진단키트를 개발한 비비비로부터 생산 기술을 이전 받고 시스웍이 위탁 생산을 할 계획임. ▷한편, 드래곤플라이는 언론을 통해 비비비와 뇌질환 극복을 위한 디지털 치료제를 개발하기 위한 양해각서(MOU)를 체결했다고 밝힘. 이와 관련 동사의 대표는 "정신 질환 및 뇌 질환 치료용 의료기기는 사용자 경험의 피드백과 방대한 데이터를 분석하는 능력이 요구되는 분야"라며, "비비비와의 공동 R&D를 통해 아직 초창기 분야라고 할 수 있는 디지털 치료제에서 의미있는 성과를 얻고자 한다"고 설명. ▷드래곤플라이는 전일 장 마감 후 주식회사 비비비와 65억원(자산총액대비 43.56%) 규모 유형자산(토지 및 건물) 양수 결정(양수기준일:2021-03-31) 공시. [종목] : 드래곤플라이, 시스웍 엔피디 (198080) 내년 성장구간 재진입 전망 등에 상승 ▷유안타증권은 동사에 대해 내년 예상 매출액은 2,700억원(+17.9% YoY), 영업이익은 170억원(+86.8% YoY)으로 성장구간에 재진입 할 것으로 전망. 이는 글로벌 스마트폰 시장이 Pent-up 수요가 반영되며 19년 수준으로 정상화됨에 따라 동사의 FPCA공급도 회복될 수 있을 것으로 판단되기 때문 등으로 분석. ▷아울러 동사 매출의 약 30%를 차지하는 자회사 케프 실적도 정상화 될 것으로 전망. 이와 관련, 코로나19 백신 접종이 내년 2분기부터 시작됨에 따라 그동안 억눌려 있던 국내 이동 수요도 회복될 것으로 기대되고, 이에 따라 와이퍼 교체수요도 증가할 것으로 판단돼 국내 애프터마켓 시장 1위 업체 케프의 수혜가 가장 클 것으로 분석. 아이텍 (119830) 자회사 아이텍에이치엔디, 동우텍과 콜드체인기술 관련 포괄적 상호 업무협약을 체결 소식에 상승 ▷동사는 전일 언론을 통해 자회사 아이텍에이치앤디가 동우텍과 콜드체인기술 관련 포괄적 상호 업무협약을 체결했다고 밝힘. 아이텍에이치앤디는 동우텍의 콜드체인 기술에 대한 국내외 마케팅 강화 및 신제품 개발에 협력할 것으로 알려짐. 앤디포스 (238090) 항원 신속진단키트 ND COVID-19 & FLU DUO Plus, 식약처 수출허가 획득 소식에 상승 ▷동사는 금일 언론을 통해 식약처로부터 코로나19와 인플루엔자 바이러스를 동시에 진단할 수 있는 항원 신속진단키트 'ND COVID-19 & FLU DUO Plus'의 수출허가를 획득했다고 밝힘. 이번에 수출허가를 획득한 제품은 지난 11월 수출허가를 획득한 코로나19-인플루엔자 항원 동시 신속진단키트 'ND COVID-19 & FLU Duo'의 업그레이드 버전으로 알려짐. ▷이와 관련, 동사 관계자는 "동시진단 시 검체를 여러 번 채취하기 때문에 불편하다는 시장의 요구를 빠르게 대응하기 위해 이번 제품을 개발하게 됐다"며, "특히 이번 신제품은 최근 전 세계적으로 출몰하고 있는 일부 유전자 변이가 발생한 영국발 코로나 19 변이 바이러스 'VOC-202012/01'에 대한 대응도 가능할 것"이라고 언급. 뉴트리 (270870) 콜라겐 시장 추가 성장 기대감 등에 상승 ▷미래에셋대우는 동사에 대해 콜라겐 이용 고객 증가, 시장 선점 효과 감안 시 추가 매출 성장 여력이 유효하다고 분석. 특히, 판매 채널 별 고객 유형은 큰 틀에서 홈쇼핑(재구매, 대량구매), 온라인(신규) 비중이 높은 것으로 판단하며, 본격적인 해외시장 진출 및 관련 매출 증가 여부에 따라 적용 밸류에이션 배수가 달라질 것으로 전망. 파수 (150900) 美 대표 제조업 그룹과 공급계약 체결 소식에 소폭 상승 ▷동사는 언론을 통해 미국의 대표적 설비 및 기계 제조 기업집단과 제품 공급 및 시스템 운영 계약을 체결했다고 밝힘. 계약 대상 제품은 이디알엠(EDRM) 제품군이며, 동사는 자사 제품으로 클라우드 시스템을 구축하고 시스템 운영도 맡은 것으로 알려짐. ▷이와 관련, 동사 이강만 부사장은 "프로젝트를 추진하는 과정에서 사용자 수 확대를 위한 추가 오더가 예상되고, 다른 계열사들도 마스터 계약에 따라 언제든 제품과 서비스 구매 오더를 낼 수 있기 때문에 지속적인 매출 확대를 기대한다"고 밝힘. 한국바이오젠 (318000) 안정적인 성장 전망 등에 소폭 상승 ▷미래에셋대우는 동사에 대해 전방산업 견조한 성장 유지 및 고기능성 실리콘 사용 범위 확대로 니치마켓 플레이어로의 안정적인 성장이 기대된다고 분석. 매출액 대비 원재료 비중이 3Q19누적 50.5%에서 3Q20누적 44.6%로 개선(동기간 재고자산 변동은 비슷한 수준)으로 외형 성장에 따른 이익 증가 효과가 클 것으로 전망.

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  애플카 수혜로 LG전자 주가 폭등! 관련주는?

오늘의 무료 급등주 관련주 확인 http://m.site.naver.com/0J8eV LG전자가 세계적인 자동차 부품 업체인 캐나다 마그나인터내셔널과 10억달러 (약1조1094억원) 을 투입해 전기차 부품을 생산할 합작

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  애플 2024년 까지 자율주행 승용차 생산 목표! 관련주는?

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The Great Lakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and we’re not sure what will happen next

Lakeside living comes with a new premium: flooding and lots of uncertainty. Researchers and residents aren't certain what comes next. — via Popular Science

— By Molly Glick | May 15, 2020 | Popular Science

A storm on Lake Michigan isn't the same as a storm on the ocean: There are different atmospheric factors and water-flow patterns that determine its ferocity. Jentara/Deposit Photos

A single road near Lake Superior connects Michigan’s Keweenaw Bay Indian Community to the rest of the state. During major rains, rocks and wood litter the route and cut off travel in and out. Over the summer, drivers have to take a 30-minute detour; in the winter, the trip can take more than two hours. Work crews eventually clear the path with plow-like machines, freeing the tribe’s movement.

Living at Superior’s southern edge, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) manages close to 19 miles of its shoreline. They rely on it for tourism revenue, drinking water, and fish for the tribal hatchery. A full lake is good news for KBIC, but if the levels spill over, it could spell danger for the residents’ subsistence.

This precarious balance shifted toward disaster during the 2018 Father’s Day flood, when more than seven inches of rain pounded the area in just three hours. In the storm’s aftermath, fecal runoff plagued local beaches, teeing up an explosion of harmful E. coli bacteria. The Michigan Health Department closed several swimming spots on the state’s Upper Peninsula, but they didn’t offer to test the tribe’s domain. That led KBIC’s Water Resources Specialist Stephanie Cree to take matters into her own hands. After all, the health of Lake Superior is an essential measure when people’s livelihoods depend on it.

“A lot of the community relies on fish for food,” Cree says. "We have a lot of tribal and commercial fishermen who rely on fishing for income.”

Cree instituted weekly beach monitoring to check bacteria levels, soon shuttering two of the reservation’s beaches. As far as she knows, it was the first such closure in Keweenaw Bay’s modern history. And it likely won’t be the last, given that the region is becoming more unstable by the day.

Across the 5,241 miles of Great Lakes shoreline, tribes, cities, vacationers, and wildlife managers are grappling with devastating flooding and erosion. It’s a different story from the nation’s coasts, where rising seas are creeping inland at a steady pace. Instead, the five Great Lakes fluctuate naturally by season—though over the past four decades, they’ve bounced both above and below historic records. Experts suspect that climate change is partially driving these shifts, but because of the complex nature of the water, it’s hard to isolate human factors from the rest of the turbulence. That leaves states like Michigan with little room to prepare for the lakes’ next turn.

To understand how much the Great Lakes have seesawed, one needs to go back to 1860, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started taking monthly averages of the water levels. Based on those measurements, the lakes have stayed within a modest six-foot range of their typical levels. But the pattern of spikes demands closer attention.

Since September 2014, the planet’s largest collection of freshwater has broken and re-broken most of its long-term records. Last June and July, Lakes Superior, Erie, Ontario, and “the sixth Great Lake,” St. Clair, all surged above century-old highs. Meanwhile, Lakes Michigan and Huron hit new peaks this April, after an unusually wet winter pushed their levels three feet above the monthly average.

Some of these patterns are inherent to the cycles that shape the Great Lakes, says Chin Wu, an engineer at the University of Wisconsin, who’s worked with the Army Corp of Engineers and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study the system. The basin’s levels usually increase in spring with heavy precipitation and runoff from snowmelt. They continue to ramp up through mid-summer, as hotter temperatures cause water molecules to expand somewhat, before dropping off in fall as cold air accelerates evaporation.

“The Great Lakes are very complex,” Wu says. “It’s not like the simple formula for ocean levels, which keep going up.”

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been taking monthly averages of the lakes levels for the past many decades to identify anomalies. (Michigan and Huron are connected and considered as one unit.) Graph: Sara Chodosh

The recent string of record highs relates directly to extreme ice cover from 2013, 2014, and 2015, says Greg Mann, science and operations officer at the NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office. Competing atmospheric processes, like evaporation and precipitation, usually keep the Great Lakes system in equilibrium, he notes—but when one of those reactions doesn’t go as planned, the water builds up too quickly. That’s exactly what happened during the 2014 polar vortex, when the region froze over and evaporation took a hit. Months later, the ice thawed into the lakes, just as the heavy spring rains arrived.

The opposite is also true, Mann says: Reduced precipitation and low ice cover can speed up evaporation, causing levels to bottom out. In fact, before the recent stretch of highs, the Great Lakes experienced its longest sustained period of below-average waters. In spring of 2013, Lakes Huron and Michigan reached the nadir of a 15-year plunge, posing a challenge for industries like shipping and hydropower.

Less understood are the freak meteorological events that feed off already-dangerously high waters. Meteotsunamis will randomly materialize in the Great Lakes, lasting anywhere between a few minutes and two hours. The storm-driven waves usually top out at a foot, but they can still cause major damage; in 1954, an abnormally tall meteotsunami pounded Chicago’s shoreline and killed seven people.

Looking back on all the dramatic highs and lows of the past decade, it seems impossible to project the future of the tides. The best bet is to dig into data and predict a wide range of outcomes for each lake. Currently, researchers from NOAA and the Canadian Hydrographic Service are tracking the tiniest changes in water levels with gauge stations positioned throughout the five Great Lakes (there are 53 total in the US). The sensor-packed devices allow scientists to keep close tabs on the amount of water flowing in and out of the basin. That itself is a tall order: Lakes Michigan and Huron alone take in an average of 139 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of runoff and precipitation per minute.

From that data, experts can try to learn if climate change is gaming the Great Lakes system, though they still won’t be able to draw any solid correlations. Studies have already linked climate change to shifting local precipitation levels. The region’s annual rain and snow totals have shot up by 13.6 percent since 1951, and as of last October, the Great Lakes experienced its fifth wettest year in a row. The coming decades could bring even damper winters and springs.

What’s more, the region is losing swathes of frozen ground, much like the Arctic. Recent NOAA maps show that the basin’s total ice cover shrunk by 69 percent between 1973 and 2017—a trend that might link back to warmer water temperatures in summer. Less ice means more waves hitting against land, resulting in erosion on Chicago beaches and coastal hamlets. In January, a cottage in White River Township, Michigan, toppled over a bluff and collapsed in the waves, a tragedy that could signal the new normal for lakefront life.

All in all, the country’s longest freshwater coastline isn’t what it used to be. Some parts of Michigan’s shorefront are eroding at an average of a foot a year, and the state has spent millions of dollars restoring damage on campgrounds, dunes, and beaches.

There’s also a symbolic importance embedded in Michigan’s coasts. Locals take ownership of and advocate for the Great Lakes’ protection, says Nick Assendelft, public information officer at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. “It’s in the DNA of Michiganders to have a connection with water.”

Michigan officials are monitoring development in high-risk erosion areas, though only 10 percent of the state’s coastline currently falls under this protection, says Richard Norton, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan. Meanwhile, some residents are trying to salvage their lakefront homes by installing rock or steel sea walls to guard against rising swells. These can cost property owners up to $150,000 depending on the material and property size, says Beth Foley, a Michigan real estate agent who specializes in waterfront homes. In particularly treacherous zones, people have even picked up their homes and dragged them several yards away from the lake.

Besides being impractically pricey, sea walls and other armoring measures can counteract themselves by redirecting waves in a way that accelerates erosion. Wu, the University of Wisconsin engineer, also says they eat into prime coastal habitat by churning up waters that displace sand from the shallows. With that in mind, researchers are seeking “soft” solutions that don’t simply cut communities off from the Great Lakes, including “living shorelines” made of natural materials such as flora, rocks, and oysters. The idea is far from new: Indigenous communities around the globe have traditionally used vegetation to fight erosion, and cities in Washington, North Carolina, New York, and Alabama are already putting the non-rigid buffers to use.

The 2018 Father's Day flood was linked to heavy amounts of rain, which caused spillover from Lake Superior and local tributaries in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.James R. Melchiori/USGS

For the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, hard and soft solutions work in tandem. The tribe hired a company to install boulders and a loose foundation of stones called rip rap around their gas station on Lake Superior. And for more than a decade, the natural resource department has led restoration efforts like seeding native grasses as a screen around local soils and wetlands. These measures also increase habitats for birds and butterflies, a win-win for the Superior ecosystem.

Ultimately, the stakes are high for KBIC. The tribe’s most valuable assets are based in and around the lake, both in the fisheries and the sands that hold centuries-old burial grounds and historically important plants. When the floodwaters spill onto the roads, they don’t just jeopardize the community’s economic well being—they threaten its cultural salience, too.

Moving forward, there’s no telling what the lake waters will do. They could wax and wane as they have over the past century, with slight deviations from global warming and regional cold snaps. says Eric Anderson, a physical oceanographer at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. But unlike the accelerating trajectory of sea-level rise, the Great Lakes levels probably won’t follow a clear path.

In the short term, the Army Corp of Engineers is forecasting a wide range of outcomes for each lake. Overall, they’re expecting a similar situation across the lakes for the next six months, says John Allis, chief of the Detroit District Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology Office. “We’ll either be dealing with record highs or just below them.”

Ice cover on Lake Superior registered at a little below 7 percent this February, as compared to 37 percent last year. NOAA CoastWatch Great Lakes

How to deal with those highs is a complex issue of its own. Take KBIC for example: The Father’s Day Flood propelled its natural resources department to organize a plan for future emergencies (a mandatory component to vie for federal disaster funding). Cree, their water expert, thinks nearby tribes may follow suit.

“This is all something new,” she says. “We haven’t had these types of issues before because storms are happening more frequently.”

In 2018, the tribe began developing a pre-hazard mitigation plan to tackle abiding concerns like record water levels, extreme storm events, infrastructure issues, and climate change, says KBIC Environmental Specialist Dione Price. They hope to adopt it by this summer.

And while the Army Corp of Engineers’ models may give communities a hint of what to expect, the future of the region can’t be determined by a curve on a graph. To really understand what’s happening with local water levels, Mann, the NOAA operations officer, says, people need to gain an appreciation for the intricacies of the Great Lakes. Warming and cooling don’t pull all the strings in the system; neither do natural cycles likes rain and evaporation. “Predicting outcomes with any certainty is nearly impossible,” Mann says. “I know that isn’t satisfying, but that is how things work.”

[inventivaindia]

Fintech startup Rupeek raises additional $30M from GGV Capital, Binny Bansal, others

Fintech startup Rupeek raises additional $30M from GGV Capital, Binny Bansal, others

Online gold loan platform Rupeek on Tuesday said that it has raised an additional $30 million in equity funding. Earlier in August, the startup had announced raising another $30 million, taking the total fundraise to $60 million over two rounds.

Silicon Valley-based global venture capital firm, GGV Capital, Bertelsmann India Investments, Binny Bansal, KB Investments Co (KBIC), Tanglin Venture…

[cnasnmu]

Native American Studies graduate to use leadership skills for grad school and career

MARQUETTE, Mich. -- Growing up in a community predominantly non-Native, Kristina Misegan says she didn’t have much connection to her culture throughout grade school in Marquette, Michigan. She began to attend various Title VII culture days and camps, powwows, and dance fancy shawl, but she was not heavily involved in her culture as a young student. At NMU’s Center for Native American Studies, Misegan dove in and embraced her Native American roots to set course a path that would land her acceptance to grad school. This fall, Misegan will be attending the University of Minnesota – Duluth (UMD), studying Tribal Administration in Governance.  

After arriving at NMU four years ago, she began to get involved in the Native American Student Association (NASA), the American Indian Science and Engineering Society and taking Native American Studies courses.

“All have connected me more to my culture, history, and my community,” says Misegan. “Native American Studies at NMU has helped me decide that I want a future working with a tribal community.”

Misegan, a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC), says her experience in NASA was a whirlwind, one of her most difficult yet rewarding experiences. Her role as president taught her leadership skills she hopes to carry with her in the future. NASA organizes several on and off campus community events including the annual ‘Learning to Walk Together Powwow’ and engages the community with various outreach efforts.

“My time being NASA president has taught me patience, kindness, and leadership,” says Misegan. “Planning large events as a student organization is amazing when you see the community enjoying themselves… Students should join NASA to make amazing friends, learn to plan community events, and gain skills they can use later in life.

NASA works closely with Center for Native American Studies personnel under advisement with CNAS faculty. Misegan says the relationships she’s built in the office with students and staff are similarly rewarding.

“One of my favorite moments with CNAS, was meeting all of the wonderful people. They have encouraged me, made me laugh, and fed me,” says Misegan. “The friends I have made have become my family.

During Spring Break 2017, Misegan, along with a group of fellow students, joined CNAS faculty April Lindala and Jud Sojourn to present and promote Native American Studies, NMU, and higher education to eight high schools in the Upper Peninsula.

“It was an amazing time to get to know everyone more, hopefully inspire youth, and I met a forever friend,” says Misegan.

It was inside the classroom where she would find the drive to pursue a field working in tribal administration. Misegan’s favorite NAS courses at NMU were  Tribal Law and Government with Hon. Violet Friisvall Ayres, Native American Beadwork Styles with April Lindala, and all of the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) courses with Jud Sojourn, Ph.D. 

At the start of her time at NMU, Kristina Misegan was initially gravitated to an American Government course and Introduction to Law. The professor, Steve Nelson in Political Science, sparked her interest in the topics. But, ultimately, the NAS courses motivated Misegan to want to work with a Tribal Nation. Once she started researching graduate programs, she says UMD’s focus on Tribal Administration and Governance sounded perfect.

“All of [the NAS courses] have taught me so much,” says Misegan. “Tribal Law and Government made me realize what career path I wanted to pursue, the Anishinaabemowin courses connected me to my culture in a way I haven't focused on before, and Native American Beadwork Styles connected me to my culture in a creative way. Beading relaxes me and helps me focus as well.”

Misegan encourages all incoming freshmen to take NAS courses and visit the Center for Native American Studies.

“It’s a welcoming environment and it feels like home,” says Misegan. “It's not a typical classroom setting. It is an interdisciplinary degree, and can positively affect many different parts of your professional and personal life.”

[solarpanels21blog]

KBIC speaks out against proposed Summit Lake Wind Project #MI http://bit.ly/2GpdRw6

[kristablogs]

The Great Lakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and we’re not sure what will happen next

A storm on Lake Michigan isn't the same as a storm on the ocean: There are different atmospheric factors and water-flow patterns that determine its ferocity. (Jentara/Deposit Photos/)

A single road near Lake Superior connects Michigan’s Keweenaw Bay Indian Community to the rest of the state. During major rains, rocks and wood litter the route and cut off travel in and out. Over the summer, drivers have to take a 30-minute detour; in the winter, the trip can take more than two hours. Work crews eventually clear the path with plow-like machines, freeing the tribe’s movement.

Living at Superior’s southern edge, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) manages close to 19 miles of its shoreline. They rely on it for tourism revenue, drinking water, and fish for the tribal hatchery. A full lake is good news for KBIC, but if the levels spill over, it could spell danger for the residents’ subsistence.

This precarious balance shifted toward disaster during the 2018 Father’s Day flood, when more than seven inches of rain pounded the area in just three hours. In the storm’s aftermath, fecal runoff plagued local beaches, teeing up an explosion of harmful E. coli bacteria. The Michigan Health Department closed several swimming spots on the state’s Upper Peninsula, but they didn’t offer to test the tribe’s domain. That led KBIC’s Water Resources Specialist Stephanie Cree to take matters into her own hands. After all, the health of Lake Superior is an essential measure when people’s livelihoods depend on it.

“A lot of the community relies on fish for food,” Cree says. "We have a lot of tribal and commercial fishermen who rely on fishing for income.”

Cree instituted weekly beach monitoring to check bacteria levels, soon shuttering two of the reservation’s beaches. As far as she knows, it was the first such closure in Keweenaw Bay’s modern history. And it likely won’t be the last, given that the region is becoming more unstable by the day.

Across the 5,241 miles of Great Lakes shoreline, tribes, cities, vacationers, and wildlife managers are grappling with devastating flooding and erosion. It’s a different story from the nation’s coasts, where rising seas are creeping inland at a steady pace. Instead, the five Great Lakes fluctuate naturally by season—though over the past four decades, they’ve bounced both above and below historic records. Experts suspect that climate change is partially driving these shifts, but because of the complex nature of the water, it’s hard to isolate human factors from the rest of the turbulence. That leaves states like Michigan with little room to prepare for the lakes’ next turn.

To understand how much the Great Lakes have seesawed, one needs to go back to 1860, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started taking monthly averages of the water levels. Based on those measurements, the lakes have stayed within a modest six-foot range of their typical levels. But the pattern of spikes demands closer attention.

Since September 2014, the planet’s largest collection of freshwater has broken and re-broken most of its long-term records. Last June and July, Lakes Superior, Erie, Ontario, and “the sixth Great Lake,” St. Clair, all surged above century-old highs. Meanwhile, Lakes Michigan and Huron hit new peaks this April, after an unusually wet winter pushed their levels three feet above the monthly average.

Some of these patterns are inherent to the cycles that shape the Great Lakes, says Chin Wu, an engineer at the University of Wisconsin, who’s worked with the Army Corp of Engineers and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study the system. The basin’s levels usually increase in spring with heavy precipitation and runoff from snowmelt. They continue to ramp up through mid-summer, as hotter temperatures cause water molecules to expand somewhat, before dropping off in fall as cold air accelerates evaporation.

“The Great Lakes are very complex,” Wu says. “It’s not like the simple formula for ocean levels, which keep going up.”

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been taking monthly averages of the lakes levels for the past many decades to identify anomalies. (Michigan and Huron are connected and considered as one unit.) (Graph: Sara Chodosh/)

The recent string of record highs relates directly to extreme ice cover from 2013, 2014, and 2015, says Greg Mann, science and operations officer at the NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office. Competing atmospheric processes, like evaporation and precipitation, usually keep the Great Lakes system in equilibrium, he notes—but when one of those reactions doesn’t go as planned, the water builds up too quickly. That’s exactly what happened during the 2014 polar vortex, when the region froze over and evaporation took a hit. Months later, the ice thawed into the lakes, just as the heavy spring rains arrived.

The opposite is also true, Mann says: Reduced precipitation and low ice cover can speed up evaporation, causing levels to bottom out. In fact, before the recent stretch of highs, the Great Lakes experienced its longest sustained period of below-average waters. In spring of 2013, Lakes Huron and Michigan reached the nadir of a 15-year plunge, posing a challenge for industries like shipping and hydropower.

Less understood are the freak meteorological events that feed off already-dangerously high waters. Meteotsunamis will randomly materialize in the Great Lakes, lasting anywhere between a few minutes and two hours. The storm-driven waves usually top out at a foot, but they can still cause major damage; in 1954, an abnormally tall meteotsunami pounded Chicago’s shoreline and killed seven people.

Looking back on all the dramatic highs and lows of the past decade, it seems impossible to project the future of the tides. The best bet is to dig into data and predict a wide range of outcomes for each lake. Currently, researchers from NOAA and the Canadian Hydrographic Service are tracking the tiniest changes in water levels with gauge stations positioned throughout the five Great Lakes (there are 53 total in the US). The sensor-packed devices allow scientists to keep close tabs on the amount of water flowing in and out of the basin. That itself is a tall order: Lakes Michigan and Huron alone take in an average of 139 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of runoff and precipitation per minute.

From that data, experts can try to learn if climate change is gaming the Great Lakes system, though they still won’t be able to draw any solid correlations. Studies have already linked climate change to shifting local precipitation levels. The region’s annual rain and snow totals have shot up by 13.6 percent since 1951, and as of last October, the Great Lakes experienced its fifth wettest year in a row. The coming decades could bring even damper winters and springs.

What’s more, the region is losing swathes of frozen ground, much like the Arctic. Recent NOAA maps show that the basin’s total ice cover shrunk by 69 percent between 1973 and 2017—a trend that might link back to warmer water temperatures in summer. Less ice means more waves hitting against land, resulting in erosion on Chicago beaches and coastal hamlets. In January, a cottage in Battle Creek, Michigan, toppled over a bluff and collapsed in the waves, a tragedy that could signal the new normal for lakefront life.

All in all, the country’s longest freshwater coastline isn’t what it used to be. Some parts of Michigan’s shorefront are eroding at an average of a foot a year, and the state has spent millions of dollars restoring damage on campgrounds, dunes, and beaches.

There’s also a symbolic importance embedded in Michigan’s coasts. Locals take ownership of and advocate for the Great Lakes’ protection, says Nick Assendelft, public information officer at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. “It’s in the DNA of Michiganders to have a connection with water.”

Michigan officials are monitoring development in high-risk erosion areas, though only 10 percent of the state’s coastline currently falls under this protection, says Richard Norton, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan. Meanwhile, some residents are trying to salvage their lakefront homes by installing rock or steel sea walls to guard against rising swells. These can cost property owners up to $150,000 depending on the material and property size, says Beth Foley, a Michigan real estate agent who specializes in waterfront homes. In particularly treacherous zones, people have even picked up their homes and dragged them several yards away from the lake.

Besides being impractically pricey, sea walls and other armoring measures can counteract themselves by redirecting waves in a way that accelerates erosion. Wu, the University of Wisconsin engineer, also says they eat into prime coastal habitat by churning up waters that displace sand from the shallows. With that in mind, researchers are seeking “soft” solutions that don’t simply cut communities off from the Great Lakes, including “living shorelines” made of natural materials such as flora, rocks, and oysters. The idea is far from new: Indigenous communities around the globe have traditionally used vegetation to fight erosion, and cities in Washington, North Carolina, New York, and Alabama are already putting the non-rigid buffers to use.

The 2018 Father's Day flood was linked to heavy amounts of rain, which caused spillover from Lake Superior and local tributaries in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. (James R. Melchiori/USGS/)

For the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, hard and soft solutions work in tandem. The tribe hired a company to install boulders and a loose foundation of stones called rip rap around their gas station on Lake Superior. And for more than a decade, the natural resource department has led restoration efforts like seeding native grasses as a screen around local soils and wetlands. These measures also increase habitats for birds and butterflies, a win-win for the Superior ecosystem.

Ultimately, the stakes are high for KBIC. The tribe’s most valuable assets are based in and around the lake, both in the fisheries and the sands that hold centuries-old burial grounds and historically important plants. When the floodwaters spill onto the roads, they don’t just jeopardize the community’s economic well being—they threaten its cultural salience, too.

Moving forward, there’s no telling what the lake waters will do. They could wax and wane as they have over the past century, with slight deviations from global warming and regional cold snaps. says Eric Anderson, a physical oceanographer at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. But unlike the accelerating trajectory of sea-level rise, the Great Lakes levels probably won’t follow a clear path.

In the short term, the Army Corp of Engineers is forecasting a wide range of outcomes for each lake. Overall, they’re expecting a similar situation across the lakes for the next six months, says John Allis, chief of the Detroit District Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology Office. “We’ll either be dealing with record highs or just below them.”

Ice cover on Lake Superior registered at a little below 7 percent this February, as compared to 37 percent last year. (NOAA CoastWatch Great Lakes/)

How to deal with those highs is a complex issue of its own. Take KBIC for example: The Father’s Day Flood propelled its natural resources department to organize a plan for future emergencies (a mandatory component to vie for federal disaster funding). Cree, their water expert, thinks nearby tribes may follow suit.

“This is all something new,” she says. “We haven’t had these types of issues before because storms are happening more frequently.”

In 2018, the tribe began developing a pre-hazard mitigation plan to tackle abiding concerns like record water levels, extreme storm events, infrastructure issues, and climate change, says KBIC Environmental Specialist Dione Price. They hope to adopt it by this summer.

And while the Army Corp of Engineers’ models may give communities a hint of what to expect, the future of the region can’t be determined by a curve on a graph. To really understand what’s happening with local water levels, Mann, the NOAA operations officer, says, people need to gain an appreciation for the intricacies of the Great Lakes. Warming and cooling don’t pull all the strings in the system; neither do natural cycles likes rain and evaporation. “Predicting outcomes with any certainty is nearly impossible,” Mann says. “I know that isn’t satisfying, but that is how things work.”