Hey, where's the data and information on Lake Superior?
When the expedition is completed, the wealth of data collected on characteristics such as flora, fauna, and streams will be uploaded into a central database hosted on the Full Circle Website to provide a baseline for future scientific studies. While educational, scientific, and governmental institutions and other organizations affiliated with Full Circle will have access to the full range of collected data through a secure interface, a specific set will be made available to students, interested parties, and the general public in this section.
As we are still under way, it naturally goes that there is no data to browse yet. Keep checking back once we've had time to gather, collate and enter the data after the summer of 2010!
Articles associated with Lake Superior and the Expedition will be published when the expedition is under way, and will continue to emerge long after the expedition is complete as researchers analyze and use the data over time to learn about the changes in Lake Superior and its communities, environment, and ecology. Some of these essays, articles and other publishings will also be posted here.
From all the video footage of Mike and Kate's 1,555 mile trek around Lake Superior, our videographer Jim has produced a DVD of our highlights to share with..
Radio, TV, Newspapers, blogs - a chronological archive with all the traditional and online media we are aware of about the hike, including Fox News, Duluth News Tribune, MN Public Radio and the Star Tribune.
Google Earth is a free model of Earth viewed from space that allows you to see any place on demand anywhere. We decided to use Google Earth to create a daily composite journal entry of the Full Circle Superior expedition that is updated regularly. You are able to zoom into an area and view the topography as Kate and Mike circumnavigate Lake Superior. Follow the expedition on this virtual globe.
It really is difficult to encapsulate 11 days of such a highly intense and emotional journey. While we greatly looked forward to this different means of exploring the shoreline, we both felt we lost some of the intimacy with the shoreline we had experienced while walking, except for the short hikes we took from our beach campsites to explore. In addition, I think we all got a sense, after so many windbound days, what it would feel like to be shiprwecked on a desert island.
In 1939 a wonderful book called Paddle to the Sea was written by Holling C Holling about an Indian boy who carves an Indian in a canoe and lets it float with the melt waters of Nipigon into Lake Superior, through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and out to the sea. It is timeless and was made into a short movie by Bill Mason in 1966.
From the Voyageur Trail Association Newsletter, ON, CanadaBy Dawn Elmore. Reproduced with permission.
Many of us dream of completing one great adventure in our lives. For some, it is a week-long paddle through Lake Superior Provincial Park, for others it is trekking through the mountains of Peru. For Mike Link and Kate Crowley, it is walking “full circle” around Lake Superior. This undertaking is no small feat. The total distance Mike and Kate will walk will be equal to travelling from Duluth, Minnesota, to Miami, Florida. The journey...
This new version has been many months in the working. With less than a year to the hike, it is my great pleasure to present to you an entirely new face for Full Circle.The overall design and conception of the new website came unexpectedly. I had already been working on a new version of the website which was in many ways similiar to the old, and the lackluster appearance and performance saddened me. It just didn't feel vibrant, dynamic or intuitive enough. Disheartened, I visited Mike and Kate one day and followed them to the Audubon Center of...
Below normal temperatures in December and January have resulted in significant ice cover developing on Lake Superior. This false color satellite image allows for easier identification of ice and open water. The aqua colored areas on Lake Superior indicate ice cover, black areas indicate open water, and white areas indicate cloud cover. Bands of lake effect snow are evident forming over the open waters of eastern Lake Superior. Although there are scattered snow showers over parts of western Lake Superior, cloud cover is significantly less than over eastern Lake Superior....
There is a reason for everything and we feel that we have defined our reasons for taking this hike in the list below. We hope you will agree that these are good reasons for us to hike and for you to follow our progress.1. Enjoy the adventure of a walk equal to walking from Duluth to Miami2. Emphasize the benefits...
My interests and views on water have been shaped by where I’ve lived, worked, and played. I grew up in suburban-like San Diego, a place with beautiful green landscaping surrounding newer and more numerous homes. It strikes me that, at the time, I wasn’t curious about the discrepancy between the amount of water consumed and the local rainfall (about 10 inches per year). But, it...
From the Lake Superior Center’s view on the St Louis River harbor through the lift bridge past canal park, Minnesota greets Lake Superior. From the curve of the Duluth lakewalk past Lief Erickson Park, the rose gardens, and finally Lester River and the Seven Bridges road that crisscrosses the falls and canyons of the lakes first north shore river, we...
