Cruise Report : Great Lakes Benthic Habitat Characterization Cruise GL-24-01, April 30-October 16, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), and Michigan Technological University Great Lakes Research Center (MTU) completed a 169-day benthic mapping cruise (hereafter, GL2401) between April 30 and October 16, 2024. The goal of the cruise mission was to characterize lakebed habitats in and near the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary (WSCNMS) and provide ground-truthing observation data for predictive substrate and biological community models.