Welcome to the Great Lakes Environmental Center Homepage. GLEC has been actively involved in the area of applied environmental sciences for the past two decades and has been a recognized leader in a complex and diverse variety of both government and industrial environmental research, development, and problem solving throughout its history.

GLEC is located in Columbus, OH and headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan. The Center was established in June 1989, to serve the expanding environmental needs in the Great Lakes basin and throughout the United States. The Center has diverse capabilities focused on aquatic/sediment toxicology, non-point source pollution evaluation, environmental chemistry, bioconcentration/bioaccumulation evaluation, environmental assessment and analysis, environmental planning, environmental compliance, risk assessment, regulatory services, and environmental surveys.