UWindsor researcher Mike McKay helped interpret this satellite photo for the NASA Earth Observatory, which featured it Monday as its image of the day. NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Commanding officer lieutenant-commander Harrison Nguyen-Huynh of the HMCS Windsor presents honorary submariner credentials to Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research director Mike McKay in the boat’s control room.
MSc candidate Dennis Otieno contributes to water quality monitoring in the Detroit River.
Dennis Otieno, an MSc candidate from the Lake Victoria basin in Kenya, is gaining hands-on experience with the Laurentian Great Lakes by contributing to water quality monitoring in the Detroit River, a connecting channel of the Great Lakes.
The project is part of the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) connecting channels monitoring program. Sampling sites along the connecting channels of the Great Lakes have been established and are continually monitored to evaluate the year-round distribution of nutrients and suspended sediments transported between lakes.
Professors Mike McKay, Kenneth Ng, and Dan Mennill are leading an investigation into avian flu infections in local wild birds.
Professors Mike McKay, Kenneth Ng, and Dan Mennill are leading an investigation into avian flu infections in local wild birds.
Researchers head out on a boat to explore ecosystems along the Detroit River.
Mike McKay and George Bullerjahn tour a lab of the International Joint Innovation Team for Yunnan Plateau Lakes and Laurentian Great Lakes during a workshop in Kunming, China.
Lawrence Goodridge, co-lead of the Integrated Network for the Surveillance of Pathogens, addresses a workshop launching the project.
Mike McKay, director of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, is pleased his collaboration with the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health at the University of Michigan will continue.
A Great Lakes research centre will continue its work and relocate closer to its research partners in Windsor.
The University of Windsor will host the International Association for Great Lakes Research conference next week. Photo by Stephany Hildebrand.
Professors Arezoo Emadi, Mike McKay, Kendall Soucie, and Kenneth Ng are pictured along the Windsor-Detroit riverfront, showcasing the interdisciplinary team leading the $15 million INSPIRE project to advance Canada’s biomanufacturing and pandemic response capabilities.
