Ken Drouillard, a professor in UWindsor’s School of the Environment, is heading a research project to help the Windsor-Essex Sewing Force. The group of volunteers is sewing masks for healthcare workers.
Ken Drouillard, a professor in UWindsor’s School of the Environment, is heading a research project to help the Windsor-Essex Sewing Force.
A harmful algal bloom in the western basin of Lake Erie in August 2017. (NOAA/Aerial Associates Photography, Inc. by Zachary Haslick/flickr)
Environmental concerns are compromising beneficial uses of the Great Lakes, a team of UWindsor researchers write in the Conversation.
UWindsor professor Hugh MacIsaac accompanies students from China’s Yunnan University on a boat trip to collect water samples from Lake Erie.
Eight students from Yunnan University in China travelled to Windsor for a two-week course at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research.
Dr. Kenneth Drouillard, professor at the University of Windsor's Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, explains why the emergence of mayflies can be an indication of lake health.
Most years, they rise from the water and blanket unsuspecting communities.
Children scream as their friends run in pursuit with one of these winged-insects pinched tight between their fingers.
But what are they exactly and should we be encouraged when some years produce seemingly record levels and others don’t?
Are they fishflies, June bugs, or mayflies?
Christopher Weisener leads a research project developing an early warning system for water quality by exploring microbes in sediment.
Groundbreaking UWindsor research on detecting microbes in sediment as an early warning system for water quality has received NSERC funding.
Fishing for trouble? A new study concludes that about half of current fish consumption advisories are potentially not adequately protective.
A UWindsor professor has found that consumption advisories in Ontario may need to cast a wider net to completely protect against toxic contaminants.
Students gather samples from the Detroit River along the shore west of the Ambassador Bridge.
A public lecture Wednesday will discuss the cleanliness of the Detroit River.
Award-winning research conducted in part by a scientist at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research could lead to better advisories about the safe consumption of fish as well as improved methods for screening chemicals before they’re released into the environment.
In her highly controversial 1962 bestseller Silent Spring, author Rachel Carson argued that the uncontrolled and widespread use of such pesticides as DDT was killing a wide variety of birds that were facing the possibility of extinction if something wasn’t done to address the problem.
