Solving increasingly complex environmental challenges requires collaborative research networks that share expertise, data, information, and tools. Fortunately, the Real-Time Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network (RAEON) is providing exactly what researchers need to carry out their work to understand and monitor freshwater ecosystems in the Great Lakes.…
CBC News
The University of Windsor is receiving more than $1.77 million in funding to support its leadership in the Real-Time Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network (RAEON).
It’s working with eight other schools in the largest freshwater observational research network in Canada, and one of the largest globally.…
Living at the centre of the Great Lakes, the world’s biggest freshwater body, any suggestion there might be big issues with our water might be hard to swallow.
But being surrounded by an abundance of the liquid doesn’t mean not being directly impacted by large challenges associated with it, including pollution, toxic algae blooms, invasive species and periods of having either too much or too little.…
By Maggie Xenopoulos, Trent University
This is part of the Smart Project Series—stories published by Smart Great Lakes Initiative (SGLi) partners that explore current or future projects that sum up what it means to be “smart,” as established in the Common Strategy for Smart Great Lakes.…
By Innovasea. BOSTON – Innovasea, a global leader in technologically advanced aquatic solutions for aquaculture and fish tracking, today announced groundbreaking new technology that will enable fish researchers to retrieve their field data from shore.
The technological breakthrough comes in the form of a new module for Teledyne’s G3 Gliders that allows the autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to be dispatched out to Innovasea’s VR4-UWM underwater receivers to offload data.…
Welcome to Season 2 of Marine Tech Talk. In our first episode of the New Year, we are joined by Dr. Aaron Fisk, a professor at the University of Windsor and Science Director for the Real-time Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network (RAEON), Katelynn Johnson, Research and Operations Director at RAEON, and Cailin Burmaster, a Marine Technician for RAEON.…
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) and the low dissolved oxygen concentrations associated with them are a growing concern for large water bodies throughout the world. HABs have resulted in fish kills and drinking water advisories, which collectively have caused estimated economic losses of up to US$71 million per year within Lake Erie alone.…
Laura Johnston, Cleveland.com – October 9 2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The biggest wave in Lake Erie this past summer topped 11 feet. The highest water temperature reached nearly 80 degrees.
That’s according to data from a smart buoy near Cleveland’s water intake crib, about 3 miles north of the downtown shore.…
CBC News Jonathan Pinto – August 8, 2019
A University of Windsor professor is missing a high-tech scientific research buoy used for studying Lake Erie algal blooms.
On Wednesday, Jill Crossman was on western Lake Erie as part of the annual “HABs Grab” — an international scientific endeavour that saw scientists collect roughly 200 water samples in an effort to map harmful algal blooms (HABs).…
