Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a 5-part series by Kalah Harris, Audrey Porter, Yue Jiang and Claire Moore that focuses on trans-border U.S. and Canadian environmental research projects.
Environmental challenges in the Great Lakes region pay no mind to international borders. Air pollution drifts, contaminated water flows, invasive species intrude, climate change impacts wildlife habitat and storms hit without regard to the invisible line that separates Canada from the US. Not surprisingly, investigating and tackling these types of problems requires scientific efforts from both countries, even when the COVID-19 pandemic makes it virtually impossible for researchers and natural resource managers from one country to travel to the other for field studies and collaborative meetings.
This week, we are releasing a package of stories highlighting four of the many areas of binational scientific research that are underway.
Kalah Harris, Audrey Porter, Yue Jiang & Claire Moore