(Webinar) All Hands on Deck: Working Together to Protect Habitat and Species in Lake Ontario

Posted: April 12, 2023

Hosted by the Lake Ontario Partnership, co-led by Environment and Climate Change Canada
and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Get ready to dive into the world of habitat and species protection in Lake Ontario! Register for our upcoming public webinar, All Hands on Deck: Working Together to Protect Habitat and Species in Lake Ontario, taking place on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at 12 p.m. ET.

Learn about the successes and challenges in protecting habitat and species in Lake Ontario as well as restoration efforts to protect Lake Sturgeon—Lake Ontario’s oldest and largest native fish species.

Lake As 2023 is the Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) intensive field year for Lake Ontario, this webinar will also offer an upfront and personal look at how Canadian and U.S. scientists will work together to collect data to better understand the Lake and its ecosystem. Our panel of scientific experts will introduce us to the monitoring and research that is part of the Lake Ontario field year and take questions from the audience.

Guest speakers include: Emma Tahirali, MEnvSc, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks; Dawn Dittman, PhD, U.S. Geological Survey; Daniel Gurdak, PhD, U.S. EPA; Alexander Gatch, MSc, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Warren Currie, PhD, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Dimitry Gorsky, PhD, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Tim Johnson, PhD, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.

This webinar is part of the Let’s Talk Lake Ontario webinar series. This event is free, open to the public and suitable for anyone who is passionate about the Great Lakes!

Registration is now closed.

For questions, contact carol.kim@ec.gc.ca or brandt.peter@epa.gov.

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