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The Offshore Sediments of Lake Winnipeg
(Fisheries and Marine Service, 1979-12)
Early explorers passing through the Lake Winnipeg watershed occasionally commented on the muddy waters of the lake and the Red River (Ross 1856, p. 9; Palliser's Journals of 1857-
1860 in Spry 1968, p. 11,88,.94; Upham ...
The Attenuation of Light In Lake Winnipeg Waters
(Fisheries and Marine Service, 1979-09)
Lake Winnipeg water is usually turbid, and little light penetrates into the lake. Secchi disc visibility varied from 0.1 t 1.0 m in the south basin and 0.5 to 2.6 m in the north basin. Horizontal extinction coefficients ...
Comment - Lake Winnipeg, Then and Now: Another Perspective
(unpublished, 2007-12)
The 2006 Lake Winnipeg Stewardship Board Report is used, together with a paper and reports by Dr. G. J. Brunskill and his colleagues, to assess change in the nutrient status of Lake Winnipeg since the late 1960's and early ...
Paleolimnology of Lake Winnipeg - Introduction and Overview
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998-03-01)
Agricultural Beneficial Management Practices for Lake Winnipeg – Cost-benefit analysis using an ecological goods and services approach
(The Thomsen Corporation, 2010-11)
The objective of the research and analysis reported herein was to “Assess the costs and benefits of agricultural beneficial management practices (BMPs) for Lake Winnipeg in physical and economic terms, with an emphasis on ...
Projected Climate Impacts on Snow Depths and Discharges In the Lake Winnipeg Watershed
(Government of Canada, Environment Canada, 2011)
A number of studies have documented recent trends toward earlier spring snowmelt (e.g. Brown, 2000) and a decline in snow cover extent (Dery and Brown, 2007) across many regions of the Northern Hemisphere in response to ...
Nutrient Reduction Strategies for Wastewater Treatment Facilities for Lake Winnipeg: Cost‐Benefit Analysis using an Ecological Goods and Services Approach Final Report
(Government of Canada, Environment Canada, 2011-01-04)
Municipal wastewater effluent is currently one of the many sources of nutrients to Lake Winnipeg. Recently, the province and its larger municipalities have identified specific steps to reduce nutrient loadings from wastewater ...
Development of an Information Portal for the Lake Winnipeg Basin Initiative
(Government of Canada, Environment Canada, 2011)
The Lake Winnipeg Basin Initiative was created as part of Canada’s
Action Plan on clean water. Its focus is to deal with excessive lake inputs of nutrients from surface runoff and municipal wastewater. Understanding the ...
Advances in the Integration of Watershed and Lake Modeling in the Lake Winnipeg Basin
(Government of Canada, 2010)
Estimating non-point source pollution from watersheds and the effects of mitigation measures (e.g. beneficial management practices or BMPs) is an important step in managing and
protecting water quality, not only at the ...
Costs and Benefits of Instruments to Reduce Nutrients in the Lake Winnipeg Basin: Using an ecological goods and services approach - Synthesis Report
(Environment Canada, 2012-01-30)
This work focuses on strategies for reducing eutrophication of Lake Winnipeg caused by excess nutrients discharging to the lake as a result of various human activities. Eutrophication poses a serious threat to water quality ...