Water Quality
For the next five years, the IJC will focus on climate change, improving and continuing Indigenous collaboration and engagement, and enhancing its data management and communication tools under its International Watersheds Initiative (IWI).
A new program in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, hopes to help area kids learn more about their home region and how interconnected the natural world is with their lives.
The IJC’s Red River Board is developing procedures to manage low flows and studying water quality trends across the watershed.
Developing sound recommendations for a shared a body of water is a lot like following a recipe: if you don’t know how ingredients will interact, the results can end up falling short of what you were expecting.
“Just because Lake Superior is big doesn’t mean it can’t change ... in fact, it’s one of the fastest-changing lakes in the world,” according to Dr. Jay Austin, a professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth Large Lakes Observatory.
The International Joint Commission's Great Lakes Science Advisory Board is hosting a session on a Great Lakes Early Warning System (GLEWS) at the upcoming virtual International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Annual Conference, May 17-21, 2021.