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Dec 20th, 2024

High School students from Assumption High School visited RAEON (Real-Time Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network) at the University of Windsor for a close up look at the work being done to monitor water conditions in real time in the Great Lakes.  The students got to see a glider in action, a

Dec 13th, 2024

GLIER's MSc Candidate, Neve Hudson is exploring how climate change and warmer winters have impacted Lake Erie’s algal community.

Dec 9th, 2024

Ice cover on the Great Lakes has many benefits to shorelines, aquatic ecosystems and localized climate and weather events.  Last winter the Great Lakes saw historic low ice cover levels.  Dr.

Dec 6th, 2024

Sarika Sharma is using drone technology among other methods to monitor and evaluate restoration efforts, with the goal of informing future restoration projects in tallgrass prairies.  Sarika started this investigation as part of her Undergraduate Thesis in School of Environment, gaining hand

Dec 3rd, 2024

Surrounded by Conservation lands and other naturalized areas, the busy Port of Monroe, Michigan is part of Michigan's Blue Economy by providing habitat for many kinds of birds and fish.  The proximity of the DTE Energy Plant which produces thermal discharge into the port waters attracts fish

Nov 29th, 2024

Clint Jacobs, Candy Donaldson and Catherine Febria created the Indigenous Guardians Endowment Fund to help protect the land, w

Nov 19th, 2024

Currently, if you want to ride your bike in Windsor and Detroit, you have to put your bike on your car and drive it over the border.  Given the close relationship between Windsor and Detroit, it seems unthinkable that one cannot ride their bike from one to the other.  With the completio