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Two scientists deploy a water quality instrument on a warm winter day. Water is ice free.

Great Lakes Food Webs Science: WinterGrab II 2024

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Great Lakes Food Webs Science: WinterGrab II 2024
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
This past week our lab once again sampled sites around Burlington Ontario in February for the WinterGrab II. In the Fall of 2021, a grass-roots group of US and Canadian Great Lakes scientists met to plan a set of standardized sampling for mid-winter across all of the Great Lakes.

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Biologist washing a plankton net with Toronto skyline in the background.

Great Lakes Food Webs Science Advice Clients : #2 ECCC

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“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there” Lewis Carroll
The next science advice client that our lab at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) provides science advice to is related to our mandate under the International Joint Commission. While Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has many regulatory and conservation responsibilities, they are both our regular science collaborator in the Great Lakes, and also the Canadian agency lead under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, so they are ultimately responsible for reporting out and moving forward restoration activities.

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Great Lakes Food Webs Science Advice Clients : #1 The IJC

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“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself” Oscar Wilde

I thought I would start a series to discuss some of the clients that our lab at Fisheries and Oceans Canada provides science advice to. I thought I would start with the International Joint Commission (IJC) because it incredibly important to the Great Lakes, but many people don’t really know much, if anything, about it. The International Joint Commission was created between Canada and the United States because of the recognition that the lakes and rivers that cross the borders affect both countries and that they would have to work together to manage them. The US and Canada cooperate to manage these waters “to protect them for the benefit of today’s citizens and future generations”.

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