Featured Articles

1. WIRE Net (Wetland Inventory for Research and Education Network)

   WIRE Net was established in 1997 to create a centralized binational GIS database that could be used  to prepare a discussion paper for the 1998 State of the Lakes Conference (Chow-Fraser and Albert 1998).  At that time, the database only contained locations (centroids) of wetlands along the Canadian and U.S.… Read More

2. Georgian Bay’s Vital Signs

   Dr. Pat Chow-Fraser is featured on Georgian Bay Forever's online speaker series "Vital Signs." In this short video, she shares her current research on the impacts of low water levels on fish habitat.

   

3. Great Lakes Fish Distributions

   In 1982, Goodyear et al. published a 14-volume atlas of the spawning and nursery areas of Great Lakes fishes. This atlas remains the most comprehensive bi-national survey undertaken to date, containing information on all of the commercially and recreationally important species in the Great Lakes fishery.… Read More

4. Wetland inventories

   Need for bi-national wetland inventory of coastal wetlands.

   During the early 2000s, the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Consortium (GLCWC; see Ingram et al. 2004), consisting of both U.S. and Canadian scientists and policy makers, worked together to create a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based coastal wetland inventory for all five Great Lakes (see map above). … Read More

5. Cootes Paradise

   Cootes Paradise is located at the extreme west end of Lake Ontario, surrounded by the City of Hamilton, the Town of Dundas and the Town of Waterdown. The northern border of McMaster University's campus lies near the southwestern end of the marsh. In this multimedia presentation, we consider the different factors which have degraded Cootes Paradise's marsh lands over the last century. We also track restoration efforts made during the 1990s, learning from their stumbles and successes.