BUFFALO, NY (August 15) - On Saturday, August 15, BWEC presented the lecture: "Epic Great Lakes Storms, Shipwrecks and Lighthouses" at Canal Side on Buffalo's Inner Harbor. Tom Niziol, Meteorologist-in-Charge at the National Weather Service in Buffalo, and the Buffalo News' Mike Vogel, First Vice President of the American Lighthouse Foundation, guest lectured throughout the afternoon.

On Saturday, September 12, WIVB Channel 4 Chief Meteorologist Don Paul and Stephen Vermette, associate professor, Geography and Planning Department, Buffalo State College, will present "Ice Boom Myth Busters." Lectures begin at 1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m.

More information on the the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation's summer program at Canal Side can be found at http://www.eriecanalharbor.com.

Buffalo Weather Experience Center guest lecturer Tom Niziol of the National Weather Service-Buffalo discusses the history of catastrophic storms on Lake Erie.

Buffalo Weather Experience Center guest lecturer Mike Vogel of the Buffalo News lends his expertise as First Vice President of the American Lighthouse Foundation to the BWEC discussion.

Buffalo Weather Experience Center guest lecturer Tom Niziol of the National Weather Service-Buffalo talks about the history of shipwrecks in eastern Lake Erie.

Buffalo Weather Experience Center guest lecturer Mike Vogel of the Buffalo News models an authentic lighthouse keeper's uniform.

Ironically, a bonus of listening to the Buffalo Weather Experience Center's lecture, "Epic Great Lakes Storms, Lighthouses and Shipwrecks," on Saturday, August 15 at Canal Side was the opportunity for attendees to be shielded from the hot sun!