Photo Essays | Jan 23, 2018 | By Sumeep Bath, Media and Communications Officer

#ELA50 Then and Now: Recreating classic photos from the history of IISD Experimental Lakes Area

IISD Experimental Lakes Area turns 50 in 2018!

To celebrate, we are looking back through the archives, and have found twelve classic shots from the last 50 years of IISD-ELA. And never being content with focusing on the past, we decided to update them by recreating them with the current generation of staff and researchers.

Each month we will be revealing a new photo, so keep coming back…

January: A female researcher guides a helicopter towards Lake 223, in 1973 and 2018

February: Ken Beaty and Ken Sandilands take notes beside a lake in different decades

March: Chandra Rodgers and Mike Rennie relive a classic fish sampling shot

April: Two different decades. Same reliable analysis in our chemistry laboratory

May: The way we spend our downtime hasn’t changed much over the last 50 years

June: The IISD-ELA researchers have always been a multi-talented bunch…

July: Welcome to the world’s freshwater laboratory! Here is what the entrance to IISD Experimental Lakes Area’s camp looked like in 1969, and what it looks like now…

August: We celebrate the grand old tradition of “pouring” at IISD-ELA, decades apart.

September: Who would have known when we start sampling back in 1968 that our long-term dataset would still be maintained 50 years later…?

October: The safest way to recreate the Great Fire of 1980…

November: Pauline Gerrard proves herself to be a superstar limnologist 25 years apart…

December: Pauline Gerrard proves herself to be a superstar limnologist 25 years apart…