Posts by LakePulse

It took some convincing (chocolate works wonders), but we finally got our LakePulse Director in front of the camera for a brief interview. Watch our 2 new videos! Enjoy them both! They’re different! Meet our Director (in English) Notre directeur (in French) Our LakePulse Director, Yannick Huot, is also a professor in Applied Geomatics at the Université…

They left! Yes, our 5 field teams: the Red, Purple, Blue, Yellow and Green teams have been sampling lakes from Ontario to Nova Scotia for a month. In the map below, we show the travel routes for each team. The teams are traveling at the same time, but some teams will continue for longer than others: from…

A true story of an impossible mission Imagine that it’s your first day at a new job. After slogging away as a graduate student for years, what a relief to land your first real job!   An email suddenly arrives from your new boss:   Fleeing this situation would be a natural reaction. (For appropriate destinations, we suggest you…

After spending about 15 months developing a scientific proposal (a mere 160 pages) and going through several stages of reviews and evaluation committee visits, one warm day in June, you receive news that your project will be funded. After celebrating for a couple of minutes, it dawns on you that you will now have to…