http://roclark.com/blog R.O. Clark Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:37:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's not Great Lakes maritime, but I just got back from a trip to New York City and the New Jersey suburbs. Here are some photos from our tour of the USS LING at the New Jersey Naval Museum in Hackensack, NJ. The USS LING was commissioned in 1945 for ... http://roclark.com/blog/2008/06/12/off-topic-east-coast-submarine-tour/ I missed posting the end of last week. I was too involved with family time, seeing my husband for the first time in six weeks. But here's a quick post about a very interesting movie coming to an IMAX near you! Gordon Lightfoot does the soundtrack and corporate sponsors include ... http://roclark.com/blog/2008/05/27/mysteries-of-the-great-lakes/ Come on over to the Great Lakes Town Hall where I'm this week's guest blogger. My topic is environmental sustainability and Great Lakes shipping. I've hit on ballast water managment and also plan to address dredging and emissions.   "Raina Clark is an environmental communicator, maritime writer and part of a Coast ... http://roclark.com/blog/2008/05/20/im-guest-blogging-at-the-great-lakes-town-hall/ According to NOAA scientists, the basics of Great Lakes water levels are: Water levels are highest in spring as the winter's snow pack melts and runs off into the lakes. Rain has a negligible effect on overall water levels, because most of it remains caught up in the cycle of ... http://roclark.com/blog/2008/05/15/the-latest-on-lake-levels-and-dredging/ Here are some events to consider: The Great Lakes and the Environment: Common Challenges and a shared future The Canada Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Canada Institute on North American Issues presents The Honourable Jim Doyle, Governor of Wisconsin. Governor Doyle will present "The Great Lakes ... http://roclark.com/blog/2008/05/14/great-lakes-events-guest-blogging/ I'm back from a two week unplanned leave of absence from the blog. Life can get overwhelming when your husband's out to sea and your left managing home, work and all those extra projects you took on! So I'm introducing some order in hopes of making life a little more manageable: Expect ... http://roclark.com/blog/2008/05/11/new-blog-schedule-the-latest-eventsfunding-opps/ The Markets: ArcelorMittal to Increase U.S. Prices by $250 a Ton (Update3), Bloomberg.com USDA says wheat and soybean plantings up, corn down, Seaway Channel blog U.S. grain export inspections up, seaway grain readies for strong opening, Seaway Channel blog Port development: Melford International Terminal expected to bring containers into the Seaway, Great Lakes Maritime Industry ... http://roclark.com/blog/2008/04/20/seaway-update-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/ Aerial view of the the Melford Industrial Land Reserve, future location of the Melford International Terminal. Photo courtesy Guysborough County Regional Development website. Containers are a very slight percentage of shipping in the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway. The Melford International Terminal in Nova Scotia, yet unbuilt, may change that. The Great ... http://roclark.com/blog/2008/04/19/melford-international-terminal-expected-to-bring-containers-into-the-seaway/ Peter C. Georgiopoulos, Chairman of several maritime and energy companies Taken from SustainableShipping.com: The maritime and energy industry executive Peter C. Georgiopoulos has announced the launch of Green Maritime Partners, LLC (GMP), a private equity fund targeting "environmentally sustainable investments" within the maritime and clean energy sectors. Georgiopoulos is Chairman and Chief ... http://roclark.com/blog/2008/04/18/new-private-equity-fund-for-green-maritime-investments/ NASA's Earth Observatory brings us this image of curling clouds as warm and cold elements meet above the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Winter had started to release its grip on the Gulf of St. Lawrence when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this photo-like image on ... http://roclark.com/blog/2008/04/17/earth-observatory-image-of-the-gulf-of-st-lawrence/