56. - Science for a Healthy Lake Simcoe

Date: Tuesday, Jun 19, 2018
Time: 8:40 AM - 5:20 PM
Location: SW128

Chair(s): Erin Dunlop, Justin Trumpickas

Adapting Lake Simcoe Conservation Authority�s actions to an emerging climate
Melanie Bennet, Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority; Barbara Pinto, Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority; Bill Thompson, Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority

Trends in the Nearshore and Profundal Benthic Invertebrate Communities of Lake Simcoe: 2005-2016
Brian Ginn, Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority; Raymond Bolton, Lake Simcoe Conservation; Kaitlin Cocks, Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority

What sets the timing and duration of the spring overturn in Lake Simcoe?
Jing zhi Li, University of Toronto Scarborough; Bernard Yang, University of Toronto; Joelle Young, ONT Min. of the Environment; Mathew Wells, University of Toronto Scarborough

A review of Implementation of the Lake Simcoe Fish Community Objectives
Melanie Shapiera, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Application of Rn-222 for Identification and Quantification of Groundwater Discharge to Lake Simcoe
Hayley Wallace, University of Western Ontario; Clare Robinson, The University of Western Ontario, Civil & Environmental Eng.

Floristic Quality Assessment for natural areas monitoring in Lake Simcoe watershed
Katherine Baird, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto; Danijela Puric-Mladenovic, OMNRF, Science and Research Branch, Natural Heritage Information Centre

Baseline condition of natural cover in the Lake Simcoe Watershed
Danijela Puric-Mladenovic, OMNRF, Science and Research Branch, Natural Heritage Information Centre; Melanie Shapiera, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Periphyton Response Across a Land-Use Gradient in the Lake Simcoe Watershed
Sarah MacKay, UOIT; Andrea Kirkwood, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Understanding Habitat and Connectivity in Lake Simcoe Tributaries to Protect Brook Trout
Cindy Chu, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry; Nicholas Jones, Trent University, OMNRF; Simon Fung, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Mike Thorn, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry; Richard Di Rocco, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

�Monitoring� Water Quality in Lake Simcoe Since Deglaciation Using Palynomorphs
Francine McCarthy, Brock University; Nicholas Riddick, Brock University; Olena Volik, University of Waterloo; Donya Danesh, Queens Univ., Dept. Biology, PEARL Lab

Genetic assessment of historical and contemporary Muskellunge in Lake Simcoe
Kristyne Wozney, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; Chris Wilson, ON Ministry of Natural Resources, Trent University

Remote Sensing as a tool for identifying non-point sources of nutrients in the Lake Simcoe Basin
Mark MacDougall, River Institute; MacKenzie E. Waller, St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences, Cornwall, Ontario

Reducing urban phosphorus loads to Lake Simcoe through an innovative new offsetting program
Ben Longstaff, Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority; Mike Walters, Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority; Rob Baldwin, Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority

Lake Simcoe Water Quality, 1980-2016
Hamdi Jarjanazi, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change; Joelle Young, ONT Min. of the Environment; Mike Mueller, MOECC; Eleanor Stainsby, Ontario Min. of the Environment; Jennifer Grixti, ON Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change; Michelle Palmer, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change

Are We Fishing Down the Food Web in Lake Simcoe?
Erin Dunlop, ON Ministry of Natural Resources, Trent University; Daisuke Goto, University of Toronto; Don Jackson, University of Toronto

Lake Simcoe: Case study for putting science into action on a stressed ecosystem
Justin Trumpickas, ON Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry; Erin Dunlop, ON Ministry of Natural Resources, Trent University