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A new project called Bluegraph renders NOAA National Data Buoy Center observations—covering buoys, coastal stations, tide gauges and estuary stations across the Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean and Great Lakes—into 3D reconstructions built from measured wave spectra. The tool has processed 113.7 million data points collected since April 2025.
A Stratus Technologies fault-tolerant server first switched on in 1993 is still operating at steel maker Great Lakes Works EGL in Dearborn, Michigan, according to IT application architect Phil Hogan, who has maintained it ever since. Roughly 80% of the original hardware remains in place, with disk drives, power supplies and other parts swapped in over the years, and Hogan says the machine has never suffered an unplanned shutdown. It won a 2010 Stratus contest for longest-running server and still runs an early-2000s version of the proprietary VOS operating system.
A study led by Michigan fisheries scientist Ed Baker analyzed over 40 years of catch-and-recapture data on lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes, concluding that some individuals could be as old as 400 years — far beyond previous estimates of around 150 years. Despite their remarkable lifespans, lake sturgeon populations remain endangered in the region, having been decimated by overfishing and habitat destruction over the past century.
Google Maps updated its US display of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' following an executive order from President Trump, part of an ongoing tariff dispute with Canada. The change mirrors Google's earlier adoption of 'Gulf of America' for the Gulf of Mexico, following updates to the federal Geographic Names Information System. Google says users in Canada will still see 'Lake Ontario,' while those outside North America will see both names.