Your Link to Muskoka's Water!
Annual Update Workshops
The Steering Committee for the Muskoka River Watershed Monitoring and Management Consortium meets annually with the researchers to review progress-to-date and discuss areas for collaboration. There are also annual meetings for the End-Users to receive updates on projects in progress.
Project presentations are available at the links below.
22 October 2012
22 April 2013 - End-Users Meeting
Topics
Canadian Water Network
A collaborative monitoring program in the Muskoka River Watershed funded in part by the Canadian Water Network.
CWN Research Team
Learn about the scientists carrying out the research.
Annual Update Workshops
An annual update on the progress of each research project.
- A geographic template for cumulative-effects assessment in the Muskoka River Watershed
- Assessing and modelling cumulative effects on biological communities
- Establishment of biological baselines in the Muskoka River Watershed and development of a diatom index for assessing lake and riverine health
- Establishment of physical baselines and hydroclimatic assessment
- Drivers of declining P and rising DOC; role of wetlands/beaver ponds
- Interacting effects of multiple stressors on ecotoxicological thresholds (Ca and Cl ecotoxicology)
- Establishing sustainable harvesting intensities in the Muskoka River Watershed to sustain critical Ca levels
- Long-term changes in lake nutrient stoichiometry: effects on plankton productivity and species composition
- Evaluation and application of INCA-P and HBV to surface waters in the Muskoka River Watershed
- Evaluation and application of SWAT model to surface waters in the Muskoka River Watershed
- Controls on algal blooms and predictive modeling of bloom occurrence in the Muskoka River Watershed