Lake Superior Posts

Ark of the Anthropocene is coming to Duluth and needs support!

Aug 25, 2014 1 Comment

Ark-of-the-Anthropocene-DNT-photoMinneapolis-based artist and musician Sean Connaughty has done many wonderful and interesting things. Among them are a series of self contained ceramic biospheres that he sculpts, fills with plant life, and then submerges in waterways to become free floating universes. He wires them with cameras so viewers can hit his website and see what is going on inside. Now he has taken on his biggest version of the project yet, a massive concrete ‘Ark’ biosphere which will be submerged in Lake Superior near the Aquarium. The image is of the Ark being hoisted in place for the Northern Spark Festival in June at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.

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Under the Ice at Stoney Point

Mar 18, 2014 No Comments

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Lake Superior: Ice in Motion

Jan 26, 2014 No Comments

Video by Dawn M. LaPointe, shot at Brighton Beach in Duluth.


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Water Film Fest at UWS – send in an entry

Jan 24, 2014 No Comments

We will be having a Water Film Fest – films about water, life in water, importance of water, etc. Any season (winter through summer topics) would be fine. There will be local films, national, and international. We’d like the films to be under 10 minutes. The event will run from 6-8:30 p.m. on Feb. 13 at Swenson Hall Room 1012 (next to Yellowjacket Union). It’s free. If you’d like to submit an entry email grethenw @ ci.superior.wi.us. The film fest is sponsored by the City of Superior Environmental Services and the Lake Superior Research Institute. We love clean and healthy water.


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Hey, it’s -13 degrees! Let’s head to Stoney Point! Surf’s up!

Jan 04, 2014 1 Comment

Hey, the water is a balmy 38 degrees, so you’d be stupid not to do this, really.

Video shot Dec. 29 by Erik Wilkie. Music by Evanescence.


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Lake Superior ice sheets breaking at Brighton Beach

Mar 19, 2013 8 Comments

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Lake Superior doing its thing

Mar 07, 2013 1 Comment

Loyal Carlon captures “ice patties” on Lake Superior.

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Wicked North Shore Icicles

Jan 18, 2013 2 Comments

Former Duluthian here, now a couple of hours further up the shore. My coworker (at the Cook County Visitors Bureau) snapped this photo in the Grand Marais harbor earlier this week. Too awesome to not share.

Photo from Grand Marais, MN on Facebook.


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Slacklining and Swimming at Uncle Harvey’s Mausoleum

Sep 09, 2012 No Comments

Duluth’s megalithic ruins. I’d taken a spot of footage late last winter, and I’ve been looking forward to a summer shoot just like this to complete a video exploration of the Cribs, aka Uncle Harvey’s Mausoleum. Sure enough these kind party people let me video their fun-loving attempts to best a wiggly slackline here on the late summer date of Sept. 9.

The water was very cold, it must be said, but I seem to have experienced a bodywide mutagenic change that can take it. I look forward to a shoot next summer with warm, crystal clear water; maybe I can get video even farther down in and around this quintessentially Duluth structure.


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Monitoring Lake Superior

Jul 25, 2012 7 Comments

Interested in conditions on and in Lake Superior? UMD operates two buoys in the far western arm of Lake Superior about 15 miles outside Duluth, one near the McQuade safe harbor and one offshore of that location. You can see the data in real time by following this link.


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The view down at the lake a couple days ago.

Feb 21, 2012 4 Comments

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“On the Archeology of Lake Superior”

Aug 30, 2011 9 Comments

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Lake Superior’s chocolate color

Aug 05, 2011 19 Comments

I’m guessing it’s all the mud from the Wisconsin rivers that is causing our lake to turn a deep shade of brown. I’ve watched it slowly ooze its way across the lake all day. All that sediment can’t be good for anything. I wonder how common an occurrence this is to have this much water coming down rivers this time of year.


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A Brief Survey of the Bottom of Lake Superior

Jul 27, 2011 No Comments


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Lake Superior Surfing … Hang Ten!

Apr 07, 2011 No Comments

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Team Red Bull finds some nice waves on Big Sexy (aka Lake Superior). Never under estimate Big Sexy, she can be a real bitch.


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