Joseph Gentile

Technician deploys a Van Dorn water sampler off a small boat.

Steps & Stages of Field Sampling in the FER Lab 

From spring to fall, field work amounts to a sizeable proportion of what we do in the Great Lakes Food Webs laboratory at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). On-going research and monitoring programs, like the binational Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) and Hamilton Harbour Area of Concern (AOC) lower trophic assessment project, require fieldwork […]

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Lake Erie CSMI 2024 : Part II Nine Memorable Experiences 

In the last blog post, we explored the Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) and some of the treaty details (Annexes) in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) that make it a vital component of continued binational scientific efforts in the Great Lakes basin. The CSMI certainly plays a vital role in monitoring and

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Person in a Canada shirt standing in front of a red and white coast guard ship with LIMNOS on the side.

Zig-Zagging Through Lake Erie: A CSMI Expedition on the Limnos

Last week, members of our team in the DFO Great Lakes Food Webs lab returned from a week-long voyage aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Limnos for the first cruise of the Lake Erie CSMI field-year. We were joined by other interdisciplinary scientists and technicians from our federal research partners at Environment and Climate

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