M.Sc candidate Dennis Otieno, co-supervised by Drs. Kenneth Drouillard and Mike McKay, is helping to monitor water quality in the Great Lakes connecting channels. Two of the sites he monitors are located at GLIER, one on the Detroit River on GLIER's dock behind GLIER, the other is an already existing intake pipe within the GLIER building. This project is being carried out in conjuction with Environment and Climate Change Canada, to measure nutrients and suspended sediments moving between the Great Lakes through the connecting channels such as the Detroit River, the St. Clair River, the Niagara River and the St. Lawrence. The GLIER sites are the first new sampling sites added since the 1980's, and will help contribute to the body of knowledge surrounding the transport of nutrients within the Great Lakes.