1 Département de géomatique appliquée, Université de Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada; Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie et en environnement aquatique (GRIL), Canada. Electronic address: Yannick.Huot@USherbrooke.ca.
2 Département de géomatique appliquée, Université de Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada.
3 Département de géomatique appliquée, Université de Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada; Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie et en environnement aquatique (GRIL), Canada.
4 Département de géographie, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.
5 School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N 3H5, SK, Canada.
6 Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie et en environnement aquatique (GRIL), Canada; Department of Biological Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal H3C 3P8, QC, Canada.
7 Département de biologie, chimie et géographie, Groupe BORÉAS, Université du Québec à Rimouski, QC G5L 3A1, Canada.
8 National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, St-Hyacinthe J2S 7C6, QC, Canada.
9 Département de génie civil et de génie du bâtiment, Université de Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada.
10 Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie et en environnement aquatique (GRIL), Canada; Department of Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal H9X 3V9, QC, Canada.
11 Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie et en environnement aquatique (GRIL), Canada; Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal H3A 1B1, QC, Canada.
12 Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 3B2, ON, Canada.
13 Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's A1M 2A9, NL, Canada.
14 Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie et en environnement aquatique (GRIL), Canada; Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Québec G1K 9A9, QC, Canada.
15 Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie et en environnement aquatique (GRIL), Canada; Département des sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada.
16 Dorset Environmental Science Centre, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, Dorset P0A 1E0, ON, Canada.
17 Département de chimie, Université de Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada.
18 Ouranos, Montréal, QC H3A 1B9, Canada.
19 Paleoecological Assessment and Research Laboratory (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston K7L 3N6, ON, Canada.
20 Department of Biological Sciences, Centennial Centre of Interdisciplinary Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2E9, AB, Canada.
21 Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie et en environnement aquatique (GRIL), Canada; Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal H4B 1R6, QC, Canada.

The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate.

Sci Total Environ. 2019 Aug 04;695:133668

Authors: Huot Y, Brown CA, Potvin G, Antoniades D, Baulch HM, Beisner BE, Bélanger S, Brazeau S, Cabana H, Cardille JA, Del Giorgio PA, Gregory-Eaves I, Fortin MJ, Lang AS, Laurion I, Maranger R, Prairie YT, Rusak JA, Segura PA, Siron R, Smol JP, Vinebrooke RD, Walsh DA

Abstract

The distribution and quality of water resources vary dramatically across Canada, and human impacts such as land-use and climate changes are exacerbating uncertainties in water supply and security. At the national level, Canada has no enforceable standards for safe drinking water and no comprehensive water-monitoring program to provide detailed, timely reporting on the state of water resources. To provide Canada's first national assessment of lake health, the NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network was launched in 2016 as an academic-government research partnership. LakePulse uses traditional approaches for limnological monitoring as well as state-of-the-art methods in the fields of genomics, emerging contaminants, greenhouse gases, invasive pathogens, paleolimnology, spatial modelling, statistical analysis, and remote sensing. A coordinated sampling program of about 680 lakes together with historical archives and a geomatics analysis of over 80,000 lake watersheds are used to examine the extent to which lakes are being altered now and in the future, and how this impacts aquatic ecosystem services of societal importance. Herein we review the network context, objectives and methods.

PMID: 31419692 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]