{"id":23589,"date":"2022-09-14T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cf.iisd.net\/ela\/?page_id=23589"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:02:29","slug":"steward-a-lake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ela\/donors\/initiatives\/steward-a-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Steward an IISD-ELA Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Want to make protecting the world’s fresh water for future generations part of your legacy?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

With your gift of $1 million to IISD Experimental Lakes Area, you\u2019ll become an official IISD-ELA Steward.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This means your name will be attached to one of only 58 living lake laboratories<\/strong> (see below for more details) at the world’s freshwater laboratory in northwestern Ontario.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Your contribution will be recognized in IISD-ELA\u2019s internal and external communications, recognizing you as a supporter of the unparallelled work that takes place here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In partnership with global agencies, governments, and our neighbours on Grand Council Treaty 3 territory, we have been protecting fresh water for more than 5 decades and continue to be at the forefront of critical research\u2014now, you can join us.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

By supporting a living lab at IISD-ELA, you\u2019ll help ensure it remains a vital scientific resource and thriving natural ecosystem for generations to come.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

To start a conversation, reach out to Louis St-Cyr, Director of Philanthropy, at lst-cyr@iisd.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Discover More About The Lakes YOU Can Steward<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

IISD-ELA Lakes We Monitor but Don\u2019t Conduct Whole-Lake Experiments On<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Our five Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) lakes have been consistently monitored for chemistry, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish population structure since we opened our doors back in 1968.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

LTER lakes play an essential role in our research\u2014improving our understanding of how climate change<\/strong> is impacting boreal lakes<\/a>. We have discovered that those effects include warmer temperatures, shorter winters and duration of ice cover, darker water, and smaller fish. The data from LTER lakes get more valuable each year as the environment keeps changing: they help us understand the long-term implications of human activity and then make predictions about the future.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

These lakes are also critical as reference lakes for experimental research. What the long-term dataset and ongoing monitoring of a lake reveal can then be compared to the changes shown through our experimental manipulation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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IISD-ELA Lakes on Which We Conduct Whole-Lake Experiments<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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