Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network webinar - Spilling oil into a boreal lake – Lessons learned from our whole ecosystem studies on the fate and effects of oil spills, and non-invasive clean-up approaches, in Canadian freshwater systems
Since 2017, the International Institute for Sustainable Development – Experimental Lakes Area has been home to an active research program to understand the fate and effects of oil spills in freshwater systems. This program has been the combination of a number of complementary research projects where national and international experts aimed to answer questions ranging from the basic science of oil fate and behavior and its effects in the organisms inhabiting spill-impacted fresh waters, to more applied challenges such as which remediation techniques are the most effective for these systems, and which ones can provide effective remediation while minimizing additional impacts to the system.
In this talk, Dr. Rodriguez Gil will summarize the different studies and their findings focusing on some of the more field-applicable pieces hoping to provide practitioners with helpful information for decision making in future fresh-water spills.
Presenter: Jose-Luis Rodriguez Gil, Research scientist at IISD-Experimental Lakes Area and Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba.
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This event is hosted by the Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network, which includes Lake Champlain Sea Grant.
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