Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research

researchers diving below water surfaceAquatic telemetry should be widely used to manage fisheries, set climate policy, protect species, and drive other management objectives around the world, a group of experts say in a recently published article. Photo courtesy of Jordan Matley

Researchers extoll virtues of aquatic telemetry

Researchers call for using sound to track the movement of fish to better monitor ecosystems and set conservation policies.

Mike McKay in lab at Great Lakes Institute for Environmental ResearchMike McKay, executive director of UWindsor’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, has received another $540,000 in funding for his research program that uses samples from wastewater treatment plants as an early warning system for COVID-19 outbreaks. The funding is part of a $12 million investment by the province to support and expand the network of researchers analyzing wastewater across Ontario.

Provincial funding boosts research tracking COVID-19 through sewage

A UWindsor research team received $540,000 to test samples from wastewater treatment plants as an early warning system for COVID-19.