Congratulations to Megan Prescott – Outstanding Student Poster 2015 @ NALMS

Congratulations to Nipissing University’s MESc student Megan Prescott who won the Jody Conner Student Award for presenting an outstanding student poster at the 2015 International Symposium of the North American Lake Management Society. Megan’s poster was entitled “Exploring Thermal Stratification and Mixing of Lake Nipissing Embayments: An Analysis of High Frequency Buoy Data.” Megan’s poster Read More …

WAC website back in action!

Unfortunately our research centre website was offline during recent labor action at the University, but as of today (Nov 26, 2015) we are back online! On Friday, October 30, the centre was formally approved by University Research Council and we have implemented a name change to the centre to better reflect the broad range of researchers now involved Read More …

Funded Graduate Student Opportunity: Summer/Fall 2015

Start date: May 2015 or September, 2015. We are seeking a highly motivated individual for Masters-level research to explore the links between water quality and hydrology in a mixed landuse (urban, agriculture) watershed.  The candidate will be enrolled in Nipissing’s interdisciplinary Masters of Environmental Studies/Masters of Environmental Sciences program (http://www.nipissingu.ca/academics/graduate-studies/master-of-environmental).  She/he will work directly with Read More …

Welcome Melodie

We would like to welcome Melodie Tessier as the new coordinator for the Lake Nipissing State of the Basin Report (LNSBR).  Melodie comes to us from the MOECC Dorset Environmental Science Centre where she conducted lake monitoring.  She completed her Master of Environmental Science at the University of Toronto, researching the effects of the invasive Read More …

Environmental Bill of Rights Workshop, 1-Nov-14 @ Nipissing University.

On November 1, 2014, we are happy to be co-hosting the Ontario Rivers Alliance AGM and an Environmental Bill of Rights Workshop. Keynote speaker at the workshop is Ellen Schwartzel, Deputy Commissioner, Environmental Commission of Ontario’s (ECO) Office. Check out more info on registration at NU.ORA.flyer.1Nov14 or at the Ontario River Alliance website:  http://www.ontarioriversalliance.ca/ora-annual-general-meeting-environmental-bill-rights-workshop-ecos-office/