Amalia Medina

Amalia Medina is a reporting intern at Circle of Blue through the Great Lakes News Collaborative program. She is a senior at Michigan State University pursuing degrees in journalism and comparative cultures and politics.

Stories by Amalia Medina

Children play in Lake Erie at Luna Pier, Mich., in water green with algae during an active advisory in 2022 against “whole-body contact” issued by the Monroe County Health Department.

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Great Lakes beach safety tests are often outdated and unreliable

By Amalia Medina

Aug. 15, 2024 7 min. read

Contaminants such as E. coli and the toxins in algal blooms are analyzed faster and...