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Jun 1st, 2020

Researchers at GLIER, including Executive Director Mike McKay, are helping to track spikes in the novel coronavirus through wastewater sample testing in Essex County.

May 20th, 2020

Restoring pollution hotspots, also known as Areas of Concern has an economic and societal payoff in the long run.  In the article just published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research by John Hartig of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, Gail Krantzberg of McMaster Universi

May 13th, 2020

Ken Drouillard, GLIER/School of Environment Researcher along with collegues Alice Grgicak-Mannion, and Lisa Porter are working with the Windsor-Essex Sewing Force to study which face mask design and fabric are most effective at protecting people from the Corona Virus.  They are working in co

May 6th, 2020

The return of river otters to the Great Lakes Basin, including the Western Basin of Lake Erie and other areas in Ohio, Point Pelee National Park in Leamington, and the Toronto Harbour are all hopeful signs that the once common animals will  be seen again in the Detroit River.  Dr.

May 6th, 2020

GLIER MSc candidate Alicia Banwell, a member of the Weisener Lab, recently received the Alex S. Davidson Great Lakes Stewardship Award.  The Alex S.

Apr 7th, 2020

Dr. John Hartig discusses the 50 year old history of Earth Day, and how far the water quality of the Detroit River and surrounding tributaries has improved in that time.

Mar 24th, 2020

University of Windsor GLIER professor, Dr.

Mar 24th, 2020

University researchers Dr. Mike McKay, Dr. Joel Gagnon, Dr. Ken Drouillard, Dr. John Hartig and Dr. K.W.

Mar 24th, 2020

Dr. John Hartig, a visiting scholar at GLIER, has published his latest installment of Great Lakes Moment:  How the cleanup of the Old Channel of the Rouge River in Michigan will become a model for other places to clean up their waterways.