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Climate and Lakes

Climate and Lakes

Understanding how lakes regulate climatic processes, and how climate influences lakes and society.

Climate and Land-use Controls on Prairie Lakes

Climate and Land-use Controls on Prairie Lakes

Impacts of climate change cross the Canadian prairies.

Community Structure and Food Webs

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 Monitoring

Community-based environmental water monitoring partners volunteers with professional researchers.

Ecosystem Sustainability and Management

Ecosystem Sustainability and Management

Application of limnological and statistical approaches to quantify causes of environmental degradation in diverse aquatic ecosystems.

Nitrogen Effects on Lakes

Nitrogen Effects on Lakes

Effects of the influx of Nitrogen on lake ecosystem structures and functions.

Priority and Emerging Contaminants

Priority and Emerging Contaminants

Identifying and tracking the occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in the environment.

Water Quality of Farm Reservoirs

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.

Projects

IECS is situated on the territories of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation, is on Treaty 4 lands with a presence in Treaty 6. We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters upon which we work and operate. We also recognize and value continued contributions of the First Nations in caring and protecting these lands and water for thousands of generations.

The Institute of Environmental  Change and Society University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway

SK S4S 0A2

306-585-4890

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