Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research

The Genomic Network for Fish Identification, Stress, and Health held its annual general meeting on Nov. 3 and 4.

Catherine Febria has been appointed to the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

Harmful algal blooms are not unique to Lake Erie. The global issue took a team of UWindsor researchers to Kenya to study its algal blooms, in hopes of shedding light on the problem in southern Ontario.

The collaborative effort paired researchers from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Kenya to collect data on Lake Victoria in hopes of better understanding the environmental drivers of harmful algal blooms. Algal blooms are collections of algae that have the potential to produce toxins that can contaminate drinking water and harm the ecosystem.