UW Sea Grant Outreach
Great Lakes Rip Currents Conference
June 6, 2006
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
The annual Great Lakes Rip Current Conference will be held this year on June 6 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, at the Inn on Maritime Bay. This year’s agenda will include:
Rip Current Science, Case Studies & Prediction
- Rip currents in the Great Lakes: What is known and not known
- Case studies of 2005 rip current incidents
- Update on rip currents in the Duluth area of Lake Superior
- Demonstration project on rip current forecasting and observation using x-band mobile radar
Rip Current Education & Outreach
- Begin a rip current education campaign in your community
- Mackinac County Water Safety Review Team: Educating the public on rip currents
- Panel discussion: Future needs for education and research on Great Lakes rip currents
Please visit http://seagrant.wisc.edu/coastalhazards/ for more information, including the final agenda, conference contacts and conference registration form.
The Great Lakes conference is a regional component of NOAA’s Rip Current Awareness Week, June 4-10, 2006, a national program of research and outreach to reduce the number of rip current fatalities. Please visit http://www.ripcurrents.noaa.gov/ for more information.