MARQUETTE — On Oct. 24, 2017, the largest wave height ever recorded on the Great Lakes — 28.8 feet — was measured by buoys at Granite Island and Munising. That little piece of trivia might never be known if it wasn’t for the Superior Buoys program, now funded by Northern Michigan University and coordinated by the Superior Watershed Partnership in cooperation with Lentic Environmental Services. The program includes three state-of-the-art monitoring buoys usually deployed near Grand Marais, Munising and Marquette. Since 2015, the buoys have provided nearshore marine weather ...