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Ensuring Canada’s freshwater future: A RAEON case study

29 Oct 2023

Ecosystems as well as a Professor in the School of the Environment at the University of Windsor. [...] to some 66,000 residents in the municipalities of This information allows municipalities to monitor Essex, Kingsville, Lakeshore and Leamington in wave height and water quality, which can inform Southwestern Ontario and to many greenhouses decisions around beach safety and flood risks. [...] Providing the government with real-time data RAEON has worked with the Department of Making an Fisheries and Oceans in Lake Ontario to provide international impact data on the lower food web, including phytoplankton, zooplankton and small invertebrates, such as freshwater shrimp and clams. [...] RAEON is also working with researchers platform, RAEON’s research is helping inform at Environment and Climate Change Canada to decision-making at government agencies share resources and data about water quality responsible for fish stocking and the protection and harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes. [...] For example, in 2019, chlorophyll data set in the history of the world during flooding in the community of LaSalle, Ont., for a single lake ecosystem.” This research also RAEON was able to provide real-time data on allowed researchers to better track and understand currents, wave direction and wind speed.

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Canada Foundation for Innovation

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