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Advancing precision agronomy for minimizing production risk
(2024)Farming in Northwestern Ontario faces unique challenges, including a shorter growing season, severe weather conditions, and limited infrastructure and support services. Despite these obstacles, the region holds great ... -
Are the fish safe to eat? An examination of Lake Nipigon fish consumption guidelines through the perspective of Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek
(2024)Mercury (Hg) is a contaminant of concern when consuming fish from freshwater lakes. It is known to persist in high concentrations in piscivorous fishes such as Walleye which are commonly consumed by people. The people ... -
Blowing smoke in the Ring of Fire: a critical analysis of news media discourse on resource extraction in Northern Ontario
(2023)Talk of societal green transitions has become commonplace across the globe. As the need to address the impacts of human-driven climate change grows increasingly critical, so too do massive societal shifts towards ... -
Evaluation of stormwater remediation options on McVicar Creek, Thunder Bay, Ontario / by Kestrel Wraggett
(2013)Stormwater discharge has been shown to impair aquatic ecosystems through the transportation of nitrogen, nitrate, ammonium, phosphorus, orthophosphate, organic carbon, fecal coli form bacteria, biochemical oxygen, metals ... -
Finding food deserts : a spatial analysis of food security in Northwestern Ontario (1996-2006) / by Sarah Wintle.
(2010)The purpose of this study is to examine the state of food security in Northwestern Ontario communities by identifying food deserts, or neighbourhoods with high levels of social deprivation and limited access to nutritious ... -
Identifying significant groundwater recharge areas and modelling surface and subsurface water balance of the Neebing River
(2024)This study provides a hydrological function assessment of the Neebing River, a stream that starts in a rural context and transitions to an urban environment that has historically been prone to flooding. Hydrological ... -
Impact of urbanization on McVicar Creek, Thunder Bay
(2024)Urbanization has significantly altered natural ecosystems, particularly impacting waterbodies like streams and creeks. In Thunder Bay, Ontario, the urbanization of McVicar Creek has led to increased impermeable surfaces ... -
Impacts of projected future temperature rise on the hydrology of Neebing River, Ontario
(2024)The projected future temperature rise is likely to change the Neebing River's hydrology over the following decades. The changing hydrological patterns are expected to cause increased hydrological extremes in the City of ... -
Social-ecological resurgence through farmers’ traditional knowledge and agroecology in Pakistan
(2024)There is an urgent need to transform global food systems. Basic food supply chains have been disrupted due to the structural vulnerabilities within the dominant food system. Scholars, ecologists, smallholder farmers, ... -
Toward foodsheds: reimagining food systems in the Lake Superior watershed
(2023)The Lake Superior watershed is nested within multiple Indigenous territories, two settler-colonial nation-states, and a globalized capitalist economic system. While water flows freely, the pursuit of social and ecological ...
