See below to see the latest media releases from IISD Experimental Lakes Area and features in media. If you wish to speak to one of our experts, contact Sumeep Bath, media and communications officer at IISD Experimental Lakes Area at [email protected] or +1 (204) 958-7700 ext. 740.
IISD-ELA in the News | IAGLR LAKE Letters | August 15, 2019
"A next step for IISD-ELA is to build policy-needs analysis into experimental design at the onset. This ongoing process will involve mapping the existing policy landscape and determining priorities as part of the development of the research project so the outcomes of the experiment have an immediate relevance for policy makers."
IISD-ELA in the News | The Narwhal | August 14, 2019
"Over the past year, Michael Rennie has dumped 30,000 tiny freshwater shrimp into a remote lake in northern Ontario. Rennie, a freshwater ecologist at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, is trying to find out if these shrimp can help the lake’s ecosystem recover from an environmental catastrophe that many people probably thought had already been solved: acid rain."
IISD-ELA in the News | Kenora Daily Miner and News | August 12, 2019
"The latest artist-in-residence at the IISD-Experimental Lakes Area had no idea the set of 58 lakes 98 kilometres southeast of Kenora existed until she applied for the program. "
IISD-ELA in the News | Market News Reporter | August 7, 2019
"IISD Experimental Lakes Area—the world’s freshwater laboratory— in northwestern Ontario, Canada, contributed expertise and data from its unique long-term monitoring dataset of over 50 years."
Media Releases | August 6, 2019
A new global study of how calcium concentrations are changing in freshwater lakes around the world has revealed that in widespread areas in Europe and eastern North America, calcium levels are declining towards levels that can be critically low for the reproduction and survival of many aquatic organisms.
