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

Burlington, Ontario
Joined July 2019
Messing around in chatGPT and may have inadvertently created a new logo (with a slight typo) for @RealGLOS 🤣... #HappyFriday
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Comparing passive sampling and high volume extraction methods for monitoring PCBs, flame retardants and other organic contaminants in the Niagara River - results coming soon!
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NOW LIVE! Our real-time data feeds from our #GreatLakes Connecting Channels monitoring stations are on Seagull (seagull.glos.org) @RealGLOS
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Just your everyday neighborhood lighthouse? NO! Hidden inside - SCIENCE!! #WaterQuality #NiagaraRiver @HudsonBayWQMS - our station > yours 😝😉
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.... and a gentle "tap"to remove the centrifuge bowl and it's cargo of suspended sediments for contaminants analysis
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...taking readings... water is warm!
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Swapping out the auto-sampler for nutrients and ions
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Our lucky COOP students keeping busy processing all the recent rain event samples! #lablife #ecccstudents #waterquality #GreatLakes
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Our buoy is live on @RealGLOS ! Check out the current conditions here: seagull.glos.org/map?coords=…
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Sampling with a Niskin bottle and how to express empty it when it starts pouring rain 🌧 😁
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Out water sampling with our new friends from @ParksCanada Fathom Five!
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Do you like #OpenData? Our Canadian surface water quality monitoring datasets for priority chemicals under Canada's Chemicals Management Plan is now available: open.canada.ca/data/en/datas…
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All done in @LakeSuperior for now - one last scenic PopCart sample before before heading back. @LakeErieNorth - You're next!
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Replying to @LakeSuperior
@LakeSuperior here we come! Prepare to be probed!
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Our PopCarts are named "Bob" and "Doug" and we use them to collect clean samples for organic contaminant analysis.
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Conducted some quick PopCart training before they depart
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