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Dr. Bozniak describes the ecology of Antelope Island at the Visitors Center Amphitheater. WSU field trip photo.

Antelope Island group considers cover for amphitheater

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 4:18pm

ANTELOPE ISLAND -- The canvass covering the Antelope Island amphitheater is weather-worn and in need of replacing.

Friends of Antelope Island plan to discuss the issue at a meeting scheduled for 7:30 a.m., March 7, in Rm. 219 of the Davi

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Westminster gets $250,000 grant to study Great Salt Lake

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 10:31am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College is getting a $250,000 grant to expand its research into the lake's extreme ecosystem.

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Red dye in lake will study flow of pollutants

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 9:44am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Federal researchers plan to color the saline waters of the Great Salt Lake with a fluorescent red dye to study the spread of pollutants from nearby mining operations and sewage plants.

The non-toxic dye will be fed into a stream that enters the lake at its southern end. The tests will begin Tuesday if weather allows, the U.S.

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Spectacular sunsets are among the attractions cited by Great Salt Lake neighbors.

Great Salt Lake evokes variety of feelings in neighbors

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 4:59pm

OGDEN — What relationship do you have with the Great Salt Lake?

That’s the question Carla Koons Trentelman posed to hundreds of Top of Utah residents.

As part of her research dissertation, Trentelman, an associate professor of sociology at Weber State University, wanted to know what people thought about the lake, how they interacted with it and whether they felt any attachment or sense of place with the lake.

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Free program on Great Salt Lake at Ogden Nature Center

Becky Wright Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 10:12pm

OGDEN -- The Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th St., will host a presentation and discussion about Great Salt Lake from 7 pm. to 9 p.m. Thursday.

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(Courtesy photo) Amanda Truong works in the lab with her professor, Jonathan Clark.

WSU student shows off brine fly analysis in Kyoto

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 9:48pm

OGDEN -- Weber State University's Amanda Truong returned to class this week after a transcontinental summer adventure that began with analyzing brine flies from the Great Salt Lake.

Truong, 21 and an Ogden resident, was one of 10 students invited from around the world to show her work at the annual meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Truong presented a poster with findings from hundreds of hours of research she conducted over three years of collecting brine flies and examining them in the DNA laboratory at Weber State. More than 1,000 scientists and students attended.

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In this image provided by NASA, Great Salt Lake serves as a striking visual marker for the STS-135 astronauts orbiting over North America in the space shuttle Atlantis on Saturday. A sharp line across the lake’s center is caused by the restriction in water flow from the railroad causeway. The eye-catching colors of the lake stem from the fact that Great Salt Lake is hypersaline, which means it’s typically three to five times saltier than the ocean.

A view worth its salt

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Last updated Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 9:48pm

In this image provided by NASA, Great Salt Lake serves as a striking visual marker for the STS-135 astronauts orbiting over North America in the space shuttle Atlantis on Saturday. A sharp line across the lake’s center is caused by the restriction in water flow from the railroad causeway. The eye-catching colors of the lake stem from the fact that Great Salt Lake is hypersaline, which means it’s typically three to five times saltier than the ocean. Atlantis is the last of NASA’s three remaining shuttles to be retired, as the space agency turns its focus on expeditions to an asteroid and Mars. It will remain at Kennedy Space Center upon its return and be put on public display.

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Ron Roth watches as his grandson, Jaxson Mayes, paddles around the Antelope Island Marina on Monday in Syracuse.

Antelope Island Marina lacks boats

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 6:49am

ANTELOPE ISLAND -- The Great Salt Lake is full, but the marina at Antelope Island State Park is not. And that is something park rangers hope to change.

With 92 slips to rent and only about a half-dozen being used, the rangers want to see sailboats, personal water craft and other watercraft docked at the marina.

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(Standard-Examiner file photo) Fishermen (from left) John Toner, Dewey Moffet and Walker Mackay, of Mackay Marine Brine Shrimp, harvest brine shrimp eggs from Great Salt Lake in 2005.

Utah's exports are booming

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner correspondent Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, July 2, 2011 - 2:31pm

Business in Utah has an increasingly international flavor.

Exports from the Beehive State have doubled in the past five years, and early indications this year show the upward climb is continuing.

"We are a great exporting state," Lew Cramer, president of the World Trade Center Utah, said of the rise. Officials from other states and areas of the country are asking why, he said.

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Contract between Davis County and Union Pacific approved

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 9:53pm

FARMINGTON -- Moving Davis County storm water to Great Salt Lake without the east-to-west flow disrupting major north-to-south transportation corridors is taking a team effort.

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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) Chris Weaver (left) looks on with his father, Kirk Weaver, as neighbors team up to cut into pieces a tree that fell on the Weaver family’s truck outside of their Roy home at 2647 N. 950 West during a microburst Monday afternoon.

Microburst slams Roy, sends 2 trees crashing down

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Monday, June 6, 2011 - 10:31pm

ROY -- The daughter is glad her mother is alive and uninjured following a microburst here that sent a 25-year-old tree crashing down on a truck the older woman was preparing to move Monday afternoon.

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Ogden company wins taste test for salt product

Press release

Last updated Monday, June 6, 2011 - 8:50am

OGDEN -- Each year, hundreds of the world's top chefs and sommeliers from throughout Europe gather in Brussels, Belgium to test the best that the food and beverage industry has to offer. Among these chefs are those recognized with top honors from Michelin, Gault Millau, and top culinary institutes throughout Europe.

They come together to test these foods and beverages on qualities of taste, appearance, smell, and texture for the pure pleasure of consumption.

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Prescribed fire planned for Great Salt Lake shore

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 7:04am

SALT LAKE CITY — State officials are planning a prescribed fire aimed at eliminating an invasive weed along the shores of the Great Salt Lake.

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Many things can flood you, but (probably) not Great Salt Lake

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, May 14, 2011 - 7:35pm

First, the good news. Despite the runoff you are hearing horror stories about, Great Salt Lake is not going to flood you out this year.

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Lake levels to rise with large snowpack in Utah

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, April 17, 2011 - 8:03pm

Antelope Island will be an island again by the end of the summer, but despite massive snowpacks and spring runoffs, Lake Powell is still going to have that unsightly bathtub ring.

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