Hancock Waterfront Weather Station
Landfast in the Buoyard at Small Craft, this working research buoy is more than a landmark – it's a live window into the Keweenaw Waterway. The weather station was originally deployed on several metocean buoys across the Great Lakes with support from the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS). Now living shoreside, the station is affixed to a buoy hull donated by OTT Hydromet and hosted in partnership with Michigan Tech’s Great Lakes Research Center. Designed to share real-time weather data with the public, the station also serves as an approachable, hands-on learning tool in one of Hancock’s most active waterfront areas. Set alongside a public park and trail system, it fills a critical data gap in the Keweenaw Waterway, a stretch of water that previously had no near water-level weather observations, while inviting visitors to pause, observe, and connect with the science shaping life on the Great Lakes.
Data and resources
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ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file…ERDDAP Open
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ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data.ERDDAP Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for…ERDDAP Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes.ERDDAP Open
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 2026-01-07 – 2026-11-03 |
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| Date (creation) | 2026-11-04 |
| Status | onGoing |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, GLOS, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-04 |
| Created | 2026-11-04 |
| API | package_show |