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Mission

The Great Lakes Wiki explores new ways of speeding the flow of information, knowledge and news about one of the world's greatest natural resources. It relies on the experience and knowledge of a network of citizens, including scientists, hunters, policymakers, environmentalists, anglers, lakeside property owners, boaters, business operators and others who care about the Great Lakes region.

History

The Great Lakes Wiki was launched in the fall of 2006 by students at Michigan State University. It was started by Dave Poulson, associate director of MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalismand Cliff Lampe, assistant professor in the university's Department of Telecommunications, Information Studies and Media. It is one of 10 citizen journalism projects nationwide selected from 140 applications in 2006 for support by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism.

Originators

The original Great Lakes Wiki team consisted of (from left to right)
Carol Navarro, Matthew Donaldson, Jamie Niesz, Andrea Dias, Brian Cogley, Rachel Klegon, Dave Poulson, Sarah Crespi, Cliff Lampe, Jason Chapman, Ben Phillips, Karly Pence
(not pictured) Whitney Knollenberg and James Vollstaed.

Of course, now the GLW team consists of thousands of citizens who live within or care about the watershed containing more than 18 percent of the world's fresh surface water.