Great Lakes Environmental Health

世界上80%以上的淡水分布在10个大湖中。这些水生生态系统的行为与小湖泊非常不同，需要专门的研究、监测和管理计划。为了了解多种应激源对这些独特生态系统的影响，我们开发了新的环境示踪技术，使我们能够直接量化营养物质、污染物和能量流的变化，这些变化对于维持这些大型湖泊系统所支持的食物网至关重要。在劳伦斯五大湖(伊利、休伦湖和休伦湖以及休伦-伊利走廊)、三峡水库(中国)和印度尼西亚的马利里湖进行了研究。

Over 80% of the world's freshwater is in 10 large lakes. These aquatic ecosystems behave very differently from small lakes and require special research, monitoring and management programs. In order to understand the effects of multiple stressors on these unique ecosystems, we have developed novel environmental tracer technology that allows us to directly quantify changes in nutrient, contaminant and energy flow critical to sustaining the food webs supported by these large lakes systems. Research is implemented in the Laurentian Great Lakes (Erie, Huron and well as the Huron-Erie Corridor), the Three Gorges Reservoir (China) and the Malili Lakes of Indonesia.