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Managing the Great Lakes calls for a comprehensive approach that targets the health and resilience of ecosystems, writes researcher John Hartig.
Managing the Great Lakes calls for a comprehensive approach that targets the health and resilience of ecosystems, writes researcher John Hartig.
Buried beneath the surface of China’s plateau lakes could lie the solutions to some of the challenges currently facing the Great Lakes.
It’s one of the topics that will be discussed in Windsor this week at the 2017 Canada-China Water Science Workshop hosted by the University of Windsor’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research.
A grant of $500,000 will allow a UWindsor team to analyze bacterial DNA from water samples.
Before scientists like Galileo contributed to the development of the thermometer in the 17th century, there was no way to accurately measure and record temperature.
So when it comes to climate change, determining with any certainty whether it’s been naturally occurring over the last few hundred thousand years, or if it’s a more recent phenomenon, can be tricky business in the absence of any precise historical data to cite.