Climate Change
We started researching the impacts of climate change on freshwater lakes before we even knew climate change was a thing.
For more than half a century, we have been collecting detailed data on our climate and stream and lake ecosystems, making our long-term dataset extremely valuable to understanding how climate change has—and will—influence our precious freshwater resources.
Among many other trends, we have discovered that our air is getting warmer, our lakes are getting less icy, our lakes are getting darker, our fish are squeezing into smaller habitats, and our fish are getting smaller.
Our research station is located in the boreal forest. This is the largest ecozone on our planet, and it plays a globally important role in carbon cycling and long-term storage
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