Great Lakes Now | Fading stars and river bugs episode promo
Clip: Season 7 Episode 43 | 53sVideo has Closed Captions
A citizen science project in Ypsilanti, Michigan researches the health of the Rouge River.
Great Lakes Now host Ward Detwiler meets up with a group of citizens scientists from Friends of the Rouge in Ypsilanti, MI to research stone fly larvae and learn about the health of the Rouge River, which was once one of the most polluted waterways in the Great Lakes. Restoration efforts like these citizen scientists are doing, however, are slowly starting to turn the tides on the river’s health.
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Great Lakes Now | Fading stars and river bugs episode promo
Clip: Season 7 Episode 43 | 53sVideo has Closed Captions
Great Lakes Now host Ward Detwiler meets up with a group of citizens scientists from Friends of the Rouge in Ypsilanti, MI to research stone fly larvae and learn about the health of the Rouge River, which was once one of the most polluted waterways in the Great Lakes. Restoration efforts like these citizen scientists are doing, however, are slowly starting to turn the tides on the river’s health.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAlso coming up on Detroit Public TV, the latest episode of "Great Lakes Now" on Monday, March 27th at 7:30 PM, the team has reports on citizen science projects that measure changes in the night sky and the health of a river.
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- [Voiceover] Coming up on "Great Lakes Now" citizen science the night sky can be mesmerizing but for many of us, the stars are disappearing.
- The only stars that you can possibly see are the very brightest ones.
- [Voiceover] Citizen scientists are helping to chart the changes.
Counting up insect larva to measure the health of our waterways.
- A lot of people really care about the river and wanna do whatever they can.
- [Voiceover] And science projects around the Great Lakes.
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