Press Release

September 24 , 2007. First Test Scheduled at New Ballast Treatment Facility: Seakleen™, a ballast water treatment system marketed by Hyde Marine, Inc., will be the first system tested at the GSI's shore-based facility in Superior, WI. (click here to read the entire press release)

Press Release

August 7, 2007. Visible Progress Toward Battling Invasive Species in the Great Lakes: Five Applicants Respond to Offer of Ballast Treatment Testing. (click here to read the entire press release)

First Solicitation Operns

July 20, 2007. The GSI has released a Prototype Solicitation offering preliminary research services to qualified developers of treatment systems designed to minimize the presence of live organisms, including microbes and viruses, in ballast water discharge from ships of any vessel class part of or comparable to those in GLSLSS trade. Applications are due by August 6, 2007. The estimated start date for work is September 17, 2007.

Public Website

July 3, 2007. The GSI has launched its public website. Located at the web address. The site will be regularly updated and expanded with GSI news and information as the Initiative evolves.

Shore-Based High Flow Test Facility

June 28,2007. The GSI's high-flow Research Development Testing and Evaluation (RDTE) facility was officially launched at a ceremony in Superior, WI on June 28, 2007. Click here for more information about the facility.

Scoping Report

May 2006. The Northeast-Midwest Institute has released "Great Ships for the Great Lakes? Commercial Vessels Free Of Invasive Species in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System. A Scoping Report for the Great Ships Initiative" (report).