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Michigan Tech will be helping to monitor conditions in the Straits of Mackinac in an area where pipelines lay under the water.
The University’s Great Lakes Research Center will provide real-time monitoring of the water conditions for Enbridge Energy Partners.
The center will add another monitoring buoy into the Upper Great Lakes Observing System and will use the data from that buoy to help those who operate nearby.
Commercial shipping, the US Coast Guard, fishing, ferries and tourism all depend on the Straits, where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet.
The new buoy will use weather and wave sensors as well as sound waves to measure the flow of water below.
