RLEF Research Funding Supports Queen’s Thesis
His work revisited six lakes in the Rideau Canal system — Big Rideau, Upper Rideau, Lower Rideau, Indian, Lake Opinicon, and Otter Lake — using sediment cores collected in 2019 and 2020 to update paleolimnological studies conducted on the same lakes roughly 25 to 30 years earlier. The approach relies on diatoms — microscopic, single-celled algae whose silica shells accumulate…