Monitoring the Great Lakes

Scientists from Environment and Climate Change Canada tweeting about the #GreatLakes, freshwater science, and our lab/field adventures. All views are our own.

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Messing around in chatGPT and may have inadvertently created a new logo (with a slight typo) for @RealGLOS 🤣... #HappyFriday

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Nice highlight of the great work being done lead @RAEON_ and the Union Water authority to keep drinking water safe. Stay tunes for more stories on Great Lakes water quality (hopefully 🤞)
https://t.co/cdA7188Vpt

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Comparing passive sampling and high volume extraction methods for monitoring PCBs, flame retardants and other organic contaminants in the Niagara River - results coming soon!

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

@CoastGuardCAN Condolences to our colleagues and friends in the CCG

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

NOW LIVE! Our real-time data feeds from our #GreatLakes Connecting Channels monitoring stations are on Seagull (https://t.co/jzdHSwKwjK) @RealGLOS

[RAEON @RAEON_]

Fun day of filming with the CBC & ECCC on Lake Erie yesterday. Stay tuned for the story 👀 #GreatLakes

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Just your everyday neighborhood lighthouse? NO! Hidden inside - SCIENCE!! #WaterQuality #NiagaraRiver @HudsonBayWQMS - our station > yours 😝😉

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

.... and a gentle "tap"to remove the centrifuge bowl and it's cargo of suspended sediments for contaminants analysis

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Sampling day at Fort Erie #NiagaraRiver.

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

...taking readings... water is warm!

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Our lucky COOP students keeping busy processing all the recent rain event samples! #lablife #ecccstudents #waterquality #GreatLakes

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Our buoy is live on @RealGLOS ! Check out the current conditions here:
https://t.co/D5n9dVdzuS

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Sampling with a Niskin bottle and how to express empty it when it starts pouring rain 🌧 😁

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Out water sampling with our new friends from @ParksCanada Fathom Five!

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Do you like #OpenData? Our Canadian surface water quality monitoring datasets for priority chemicals under Canada's Chemicals Management Plan is now available: https://t.co/aiNJFb4qjI

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

@MTwiss 👋

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

All done in @LakeSuperior for now - one last scenic PopCart sample before before heading back. @LakeErieNorth - You're next!

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

@LakeSuperior here we come! Prepare to be probed!

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Delivering the water quality surveillance crew to the CCG LIMNOS in Goderich before they head out for Lake Superior

[Monitoring the Great Lakes @GLMonitoring]

Our PopCarts are named "Bob" and "Doug" and we use them to collect clean samples for organic contaminant analysis.