New publication on phosphorus cycling in Lake Erie highlighted in Water Canada Magazine

WATER CANADA is the national magazine dedicated to water quality and water resources stewardship in Canada. It is currently featuring the recent paper Mass balance modeling highlights the role of the littoral zone in modulating the cycling of phosphorus in a large, multi-basin lake (Lake Erie), which was published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research. The first author of the paper is Dr. Zahra Akbarzadeh, a former postdoctoral fellow in ERG. Co-authors are Serghei Bocaniov and Philippe Van Cappellen from ERG, Helen Powley from Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and Kevin Lamb from Waterloo’s Department of Applied Mathematics. The result underscored by WATER CANADA is the importance of shoreline erosion as a source of nutrient phosphorus enrichment in Lake Erie. Thus, shoreline protection should be considered as a key line of defense against worsening eutrophication in the lower Great Lakes. 

Link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133025001893