Winter

Looking forward behind from the bridge of a large icebreaker at a trail of broken ice during the 2025 WinterGrab.

Breaking the Ice for the WinterGrab

Members from the Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Lower Trophic Food Webs lab recently returned from a five-day voyage aboard the CCGS Samuel Risley—one of the impressive Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers servicing the Great Lakes. This mission was an opportunistic sampling effort, aimed at collecting water samples for the binational collaborative winter limnology research ‘WinterGrab’ 2025 […]

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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

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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