Institute of Environmental Change and Society (IECS)
Climate and Lakes
Understanding how lakes regulate climatic processes, and how climate influences lakes and society.
Climate and Land-use Controls on Prairie Lakes
Impacts of climate change cross the Canadian prairies.
Community Structure and Food Webs
Understanding the relative importance of environmental variation to community and food-web structure in order to predict ecosystem functioning in a changing landscape.
Community-Based Monitoring
Community-based environmental water monitoring partners volunteers with professional researchers.
Ecosystem Sustainability and Management
Application of limnological and statistical approaches to quantify causes of environmental degradation in diverse aquatic ecosystems.
Nitrogen Effects on Lakes
Effects of the influx of Nitrogen on lake ecosystem structures and functions.
Priority and Emerging Contaminants
Identifying and tracking the occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in the environment.
Water Quality of Farm Reservoirs
Investigating water quality issues associated with elevated algal growth, cyanotoxin production, high sulfate levels causing increased salinity, and other contaminants, in dugouts in Saskatchewan.