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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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