A cross-border collaboration between stakeholders on both sides of the St. Marys River aims to further protect the Great Lakes by bolstering research into oil spills and their impacts upon freshwater environments.
“Within just a matter of a few years, we’ve now started to build enhanced capacity in both the U.S. and Canada to start addressing this issue,” said Dr. Ashley Moerke, Dean of the College of Great Lakes Ecology and Education at LSSU and the school’s lead of the International Collaboration on Oil Research. “Normally, government funding and programs don’t move that quickly, so it’s exciting to see how fast this has really developed.
Oil Spill Detection and Monitoring Technologies: Collaborating with Algoma University, University of Windsor, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Limnotech and the University of Michigan, this project aims to develop advanced technologies for detecting and monitoring oil spills in freshwater and ice environments, including innovative drone and autonomous underwater vehicle systems.
“It really is looking at many different components of these questions, which is why it’s become such a big project that is really going to involve and engage a lot of experts within this field,” she said. While the U.S. Coast Guard reported that more than 20,000 litres of oil entered the St. Marys River, an arbitration hearing involving the Sault steelmaker and information from the ministry both suggested that only a "small quantity" of oil actually made its way into the waterway.
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