The Twin Ports is now home to a unique research facility, studying the water flows into Lake Superior. It's expected to change the way residents here live on the lake.

Federal officials specifically chose the offices in Superior because they sit at the head of the Great Lakes.

"What we would like to do is be a community resource," said Ralph Garono, Reserve Manager for the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve.

The facility will be filled with renowned scientists from around the world who picked up there lives to study the St. Louis River Estuary. The estuary is the place where the St. Louis River flows into Lake Superior.

"We are working on projects left and right," said Garono. "For every hour of the day there are three things we could all be doing."

One of 28 facilities like it across the country, their research will be used nationwide.

"This estuary right here in Superior has been recognized at a national level now as being a really important ecosystem," said Deanna Erickson, Education Coordinator for the Lake Superior Estuarine Research Reserve. "That gives us a lot of street cred."

The majority of their work will be focused here in the Twin Ports at places like Wisconsin Point but as the researchers settle they said they want expand their work to the entire shoreline of Lake Superior.

"We are interested in looking at algae and other things that are important but maybe haven't been looked at yet," said Garano.