Blog
November 20, 2023
20 Years and Counting
Adopt-a-Beach volunteers removed more than 530,000 pieces of litter – weighing over 25,000 pounds – from Great Lakes shorelines in 2023. Each piece of litter is part of a bigger […]
Blog
June 26, 2023
Adopt-a-Beach Launches 20th Year of Data Collection
Adopt-a-Beach volunteers launched the 2023 Adopt-a-Beach season with hundreds of cleanups on Great Lakes beaches, harbors, bluffs, and trails. By June 26, volunteers had removed more than 191,000 pieces of […]
Blog
April 21, 2023
20 Years of Adopt-a-Beach Data Collection: What Have We Learned?
Adopt-a-Beach volunteers are on the front lines of keeping litter off our beaches and out of the Great Lakes. But did you know that these volunteers are also citizen scientists? […]
Blog
November 14, 2022
Adopt-a-Beach 2022: Year-End Results
Every November, the weather turns cooler, the rush of beach cleanups begins to slow, and we take the time to compile our annual Adopt-a-Beach™ results. The Alliance for the Great […]
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September 29, 2022
Adopt-a-Beach Reaches a Milestone
Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the Alliance for the Great Lakes’ Adopt-a-Beach program. As we dug into the data we’d collected, we realized the program was approaching a […]
Podcast
September 27, 2022
Juliann Krupa: September Adopt a Beach Cleanup & Half a Million Pounds Goal
Juliann Krupa is the Volunteer Engagement Manager at the Alliance for the Great Lakes. In this role, Juliann utilizes her passion for aquatic science and conservation to oversee over 15,000 Adopt-a-Beach […]
BLOG
August 19, 2022
To the Beach: Adopt-a-Beach Cleanup Road Trip Recap
This summer Juliann Krupa, Volunteer Engagement Manager, and Oliva Reda, Volunteer Engagement Coordinator, set out to clean beaches and meet volunteers around the Great Lakes region. They cleaned up trash, […]
Blog
May 16, 2022
Adopt-a-Beach 2022: Off to a Strong Start
Spring may have only just decided to arrive, but Adopt-a-Beach volunteers are already turning out in force. Nearly 1,000 volunteers have collected over 5,000 pounds of litter. And the numbers […]
Blog
April 22, 2022
Learning Outside the Classroom: Volunteer Spotlight
Our Adopt-a-Beach program has grown tremendously over the past 30 years. That’s due to community members of all ages coming together to keep our beaches and shorelines clean. As we […]
Podcast
April 13, 2022
Juliann Krupa Spring Kick Off
Juliann Krupa is the Volunteer Engagement Manager at the Alliance for the Great Lakes. In this role, Juliann utilizes her passion for aquatic science and conservation to oversee over 15,000 Adopt-a-Beach […]