York University's Sarah Laframboise prepares glass vials to be used in the sampling of water across Essex County on Aug. 19, 2017. The biomedical science student and Windsor native is assisting in the sample collection.
Aug 14th, 2017
Researchers from the University of Windsor are seeking citizen scientists to fan out across Essex County and collect water samples for use in measuring harmful E. coli bacteria.
“Right now, it’s commonplace to think that if the E. coli levels are high at area beaches, then the pathogens will be high as well,” explained Subba Rao Chaganti, an adjunct professor at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research. “Very few E. coli strains are harmful, so this project is going to develop tools to detect the actual pathogens that are harmful to humans in a much faster way.”
