Another story from Michigan Radio this morning. We hope the January meeting will include invitations to tribes as well.

A new project is going to try to predict the future of the Great Lakes.

It’s called… wait for it… the Great Lakes Futures Project.  It’s a collaboration of 21 universities from the U.S. and Canada.

Don Scavia is the director of the Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan. He’s one of four project leaders.  He says students will team up with a counterpart from the other country, along with a faculty mentor.  The teams will develop white papers outlining the biggest things driving change in the Great Lakes region.

“They’ll be looking at things like climate, economics, demographics, chemical and biological pollution, invasive species. Looking back, what have the trends been in the past 50 years and what do we expect trends to look like in the next 50 years?”