Media

IISD-ELA in the News | CBC Radio-Canada | May 21, 2020

"« Avant la COVID-19 on avait plusieurs projets de recherche planifiés », fait savoir Pauline Gerrard, directrice adjointe de l'Institut international de développement durable de la région des lacs expérimentaux (IIDD-RLE). Elle précise que les scientifiques continuent les travaux de recherches, mais d'une façon différente compte tenu de la crise de la COVID-19."

IISD-ELA in the News | Winnipeg Free Press | May 18, 2020

"Research done at the Experimental Lakes Area, located about 70 kilometres east of Kenora, Ont., has shown warming water over time is impacting the size of larger species of fish such as Lake Trout, with researchers there predicting the southern range of the fish will slowly creep northward. Similar research has documented this phenomenon in Atlantic cod."

IISD-ELA in the News | Kenora Daily Miner and News | May 14, 2020

"The IISD-Experimental Lakes Area wasn’t going to let a pandemic break their 52-year record. Data collected from the 58 lakes for freshwater research is ongoing despite the coronavirus just as the ELA has survived past setbacks including budget cuts and the management transition from the federal government to the International Institute of Sustainable Development."

IISD-ELA in the News | CKDR | May 5, 2020

"Operations will be reduced this year at the Experimental Lakes Area, west of Vermilion Bay, because of the coronavirus. Researchers will be required to self-isolate for 14 days before their work begins."

IISD-ELA in the News | Dryden Now | May 2, 2020

"We will make sure that we address the ongoing commitments we have to experiments that we have going on right now—including the long-term dataset that we've had for 52 years—but we won't be undertaking any new experiments..." said spokesman Vince Palace