A new ecosystem
for scientific progress
What we’re creating
a space where scientists, managers and policy-makers COLLABORATE TO develop research questions that advance knowledge and inform sustainable resource management.
We bring together diverse perspectives, skillsets and tools to tackle pressing environmental concerns, in the Great Lakes and beyond.
We conduct synthesis-driven research to understand the ecological interactions and processes necessary to sustain ecosystems in the Great Lakes basin. We integrate knowledge across scales, scientific traditions, and applications. Our goal is to bring a global perspective to local applications.
We create spaces for the collaborative development of questions and solutions in ecosystem management. We seek a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and applications in biodiversity science.
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are becoming an increasingly serious problem in lakes worldwide, driven largely by nutrient runoff from agriculture and urban development. A new study co-authored by our director, Dr. Kevin McCann, delves into how one particular neurotoxin and its related compounds move through the food web in Lake Erie.
The NSERC Food Web Alliance is a recently-funded project designed to tackle a major challenge in Canada and beyond: understanding and mitigating the combined impacts of multiple stressors—such as nutrient loading, harvesting, climate change, and invasive species—on the sustainability of Great Lakes fisheries and their food webs.
A recent informal postdoc symposium brought together our ten researchers for a fast-paced, idea-rich day built around short, focused presentations that sparked questions and discussion.
A new Ecology Letters article authored in part by our own Dr. Joey Bernhardt tackles a challenge that is becoming central to how we understand the effects of climate change on ecosystems: the disconnect between environmental conditions and the biological communities that live in them.
We are delighted to congratulate one of our postdoctoral fellows - theoretical/computational ecologist Dr. Kayla Hale - on securing a new position at the Santa Fe Institute.
Every week at the Centre for Ecosystem Management (CEM), our postdoctoral fellows (PDFs) gather for a standing meeting that’s part think tank, part sounding board, and part creative laboratory.
One of the core activities of the Centre is to host postdoctoral fellows and working groups tackling applied biodiversity science challenges in the Great Lakes region. We provide space, support, and knowledge transfer activities relating to biodiversity science.