Deborah Battigelli Memorial Fund Awards Announcement 2020
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Deborah Battigelli Memorial Fund Awards Announcement 2023 – Student Support
To honour the memory of Deborah Battigelli, her family established The Deborah Battigelli Memorial Fund at the Lake of the Woods Water Sustainability Foundation. This Fund honours Deborah’s love of life at the lake and her interest to preserve the lake area for future generations to continue to enjoy what she loved. The Fund assists the up-and-coming generation of scientists with their research on our lakes with limited travel support to present their research at the Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum. We are pleased to announce that two deserving graduate students will received Deborah Battigelli Memorial Fund awards to present at the Forum in 2023.
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Treaty #3 Leadership meet with IJC Commissioners
August 15, 2019 in Treaty 2 Territory, Leadership from the Anishinaabe Nation of Treaty #3 and technical support staff met with International Joint Commission (IJC) Commissioners and staff at Prairie Firehouse in Brandon, MB.
An account of this important meeting as well as details of the Treaty #3 Nibi (water) Declaration is available in the August edition of Treaty 3 News.
EPA Issues New Recommendations for Recreational Water Quality Criteria and Swimming Advisories for Cyanotoxins
Based on the latest scientific information, the U.S. EPA has established recommended water concentrations, at or below which protects public health, for the cyanotoxins microcystins (8 micrograms per liter) and cylindrospermopsin (15 micrograms per liter). EPA’s recommendations are protective of all age groups and are based on peer-reviewed and published science.
Buoyed By New Clues to Lake of the Woods
Phosphorus, algae’s favorite food, should be quickly buried by inches of mud year over year. Perhaps, somehow, the phosphorus that had entered the lake during the paper and population booms of the mid-twentieth century is being recycled? Could it be that the turbulent waters of Lake of the Woods south basin (the Big Traverse) are combining with short periods of temperature stratification (when the cold bottom waters of a lake do not mix with the warmer water above) to deplete oxygen and draw nutrients back up from the sediments. Particularly windy days could then mix nutrient rich particles of sediment throughout the water column, allowing pollution from many years ago to be reused over and over again. In this article from the Field Notes – Stories from the St. Croix Watershed Research Station of the Science Museum of Minnesota the story unfolds of research seeking to answer these questions and gain insights into what causes the algae problems plaguing Lake of the Woods.
Studies of Lake of the Woods show how water can struggle with a legacy of pollution
Spanning the U.S.-Canada border at the northern extremity of Minnesota and the northwestern corner of Ontario, vast Lake of the Woods has a storied relationship with humans: as home, as highway, as getaway. Lake of the Woods is well-loved, and troubled. This article from Field Notes -Stories from the St. Croix Watershed Research Station examines the history of pollution and how research studies are improving out understanding the lake’s past and current conditions, including how phosphorus is stored and returned from the lake bottom. These studies are helping us to figure out what forces affect the water quality today — which is essential to setting clean-up goals and identifying the most effective ways to achieve them.
Zombie Phosphorus: The Long-Term Consequences of Nutrient-Rich Runoff
In lakes throughout the upper Midwest, from giant Lake of the Woods to dozens of smaller lakes in our urban and agricultural landscapes, clean water has not obviously followed pollution reductions. The complex connections between land, water, climate, chemistry, algae, and even fish can conspire to make us pay a high price for past sins. This article from the Field Notes – Stories from the St. Croix Watershed Research Station of the Science Museum of Minnesota examines the role of “legacy” phosphorus in the lake bottom and other factors in recovery of lakes from too much nutrient pollution.
Tour Lake of the Woods by Video
A must see for all!
Lake of the Woods: A History by Water
Lake of the Woods: Eastern Shores
Look for Our Weekly Column on Everything Water
Kelli Saunders, the Foundation’s International Watershed Coordinator has a weekly column in the the Lake of the Woods Enterprise newspaper and online at the Kenora Daily Miner News. This feature series will celebrate the importance of water locally and the great efforts collectively to protect it, will be dedicated to water throughout the summer months – its quality, its governance, its future and how we can all help to preserve it.
Several articles are online now – click the Read more (below) for the links and look to the Lake of the Woods Enterprise newspaper and Kenora Daily Miner News Online for weekly updates!
The Role of Science in the Lake of the Woods-Rainy River Basin
In this article, Bev Clark takes a look at what we’ve learned about Lake of the Woods from some of the key science published in the 2017 special issue of the Journal of Lake and Reservoir Management that was devoted entirely to Lake of the Woods. How has the lake changed? Are we still paying for our past sins from phosphorus pollution built up in the lake bottom? And what role does climate change have?