Dr. William Taylor, Department of Biology
Algal blooms and fouling are reoccurring in the Great Lakes, despite improvements seen in the 1990s following the Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. With new targets set for Lake Erie, total phosphorus trends are being studied, but few are evaluating these trends in smaller streams where diffuse loading is the major source of phosphorus.
Dr. Derek Robinson, Department of Geography and Environmental Management
Wetlands have undergone dramatic losses both globally and nationally in the last one hundred years, despite their economic and ecological value. One approach to improving large-scale reclamation in wetland-rich landscapes is to mimic the proportional composition and the spatial configuration of wetlands found in natural and undisturbed landscapes.
Dr. Larry Swatuk, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
Water management is an issue that concerns all people equally. However, water resource management has historically been afflicted by a gender imbalance. The differences in the ways women and men are involved with water reflect deeply rooted, systemic power relations that have significant implications for the ways in which the resource is handled.
Dr. Hyung-Sool Lee, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) may lower net global emissions of methane by 10 to 60 per cent, significantly mitigating the potential impact of this potent greenhouse gas on the global climate. Newly discovered syntrophic interactions between AOM and extracellular electron transfer could substantially lower estimates of the global methane flux.
