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Why on earth couldn't you guys draw the shitmobile correctly, with the proper door missing? You have the driver door missing in game... when only ever has the passenger door been missing.... and then try to charge a subscription service for it. I mean.. I understand the point is for it to collect hashcoins, but someone made the decision to go ahead and green light it into the game with it drawn incorrectly and then try to charge. Greasy bud. Jules would approve.

PROOF: https://twitter.com/TPBGAME/status/1618710204824141824

Chris: Lake 227 for being fairly symmetrical and bowl-shaped. The bathymetry map looks beautiful – available publicly and free here, in the “Current Maps” section of our larger bathymetry data package.

Thomas: The curtain experiment on Lake 226 was one of the most impactful early experiments at ELA. The hourglass shape of the lake makes for nice aerial photos!

Scott: Lake 227...to our knowledge it is the longest running whole lake experiment in the world....and still providing excellent policy relevant scientific outputs. We are also adding phosphorus to two new lakes (Lakes 303 and L304) and are turning bright green with algal blooms.

Sonya: Lake 227 is probably my favorite lake as well for the same reasons stated above. It’s the lake most researchers and students want to visit since they learn about it in university. However, it is also my least favorite lake from an analytical standpoint; since it is experimentally eutrophic, it has high nutrient concentrations, which means we have to dilute the samples to be within our analytical range.

Mike: I like Lake 979. It’s a beautiful, small, diverse wetland with a gorgeous waterfall at the far end. I started my research at ELA there, so I have many great memories of it.

Hey Sammy, thanks for taking the time to do this and share your story! How can people get involved in your 12 step program?

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Our team is using constructed floating wetlands primarily to assess their ability to remove contaminants like oil after a spill. We are exploring the use of floating wetlands and associated microorganisms on their roots to enhance biodegradation of freshwater oil spills. Researchers are working to explore changes to the microbial community upon exposure to oil to see if there are organisms that can degrade oil compounds.

There has been some work done by one of our scientists, Richard Groshans, using constructed floating wetlands on one of our long-running whole lake experiments on algal blooms to see how much phosphorus (the key ingredient in algal blooms) they can remove from the lake, though I believe this work has not yet been published (https://www.iisd.org/articles/video/how-build-floating-wetland, https://www.iisd.org/publications/guide/floating-treatment-wetlands-keeping-our-fresh-water-clean-and-healthy ).

Richard has also done considerable research on the harvesting of emergent macrophytes from ephemeral wetlands as an energy source, which has the added benefit of removing nutrients

The results of many experiments at ELA differed considerably from what we expected.

For example, in the early eutrophication experiments at ELA, many scientists predicted carbon would limit algal blooms. Later, many scientists predicted that nitrogen would also limit algal growth. The results from Lake 227 and Lake 226 clearly showed that phosphorus was the most important nutrient driving algal blooms and that variations in carbon and nitrogen inputs did not affect the outcomes for these boreal lakes. These results provided critical information about which nutrients we need to focus our management efforts on. Like many experiments at ELA, they demonstrated that predictions based on small-scale studies often do not do well at the ecosystem scale.

When we set out to research on the impact that nanosilver (very small particles of silver, found in clothing or hygiene products), we expected a much greater impact on the overall ecosystem. We had been expecting the biggest impacts to affect the lower food web (bacteria and phytoplankton) but the only impacts we saw were to fish.

Will you be able to make greasy movies with J Roc?

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Do you have an example of an experiment or project where a whole lake study revealed the opposite of what you initially hypothesized?

Fish secrete compounds in their mucus, and when you scrape mucus off a fish, we can analyze it to discover a whole host of things about that fish. You can look at genes, proteins, metabolites and hormones! Using that you can tell if a fish is stressed in general or diving into specific genes what they might be stressed by.

Working with fish mucus is part of a much broader endeavor at IISD-ELA to use more non-lethal sampling methods when we are testing fish health and fish populations. This means we have much less of an impact on the fish populations as a whole and ensure we inflict minimal harm on the fish in our lakes.

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One of the things that has really surprised us—for the better—was going from being a government facility to an independent not for profit.

We are now much more flexible to look at a much broader range of scientific questions, but we are no longer constrained by governmental mandates, and can respond to any environmental issue that we consider to be a threat to our freshwater supplies.

This also means we can work with a broader range of collaborators.

When we moved status, it was definitely a leap of faith. I am not sure many of us expected for us to do even better than we ever had over our first forty years, but here we are—collaborating with more partners, working on a broader range of issues, using new techniques, monitoring with higher resolution.

What can actually learn from fish mucus?

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Are you doing any research with constructed floating wetlands for reduction of excess nutrients and algal blooms?

What is the most surprising change you've seen at ELA over the years?

What are your fave lakes at ELA and why?

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I still know people in that life. I would not say I am friends with them as much as I remain a compass pointing to the way out. I personally have distanced myself from the people, places and things that I use to be a part of. I go back into those places to be of service. I encourage a few of them to consider an other alternative. I started a 12 Step group for men and women trying to leave street life and a life of hate.

I am working in a space helping others think about whether or not they are willing to close the distance between people in your world. Essentially, We are encouraging people to recognize that differences are never the reason we are so far apart, but rather the boxes we put others in, or lines we draw, that do not exist but only in our own minds. I love helping people and making things better.

First and foremost is understand for yourself that you may not be able to change what is happening in real time but can begin to plant the seeds that will foster change later.

Lead with being a good listener. What I have found in my experience talking with many individuals struggling with this is that they have grievances, they have a sense of not being heard, therefore not understood, therefore not ever validated in their own experiences.

Listening can lead to a sense of being heard which will strike them as different. Enough to perhaps stay involved in the convo or to at least think about it later.

Lead with empathic responses and approaches.

Try not to rebuttal.

Try to remain calm no matter what you are hearing.

Avoid being or sounding judgmental.

Remind them you love them unconditionally, even if you cannot support their actions, lifestyle.

Remember listening is not a sign of conceding or agreeing, but rather an indication of the worth and value you have concerning that person.

Avoid "cutting the person completely off". You can still maintain healthy boundaries and limits. There can still be accountability but think of how to apply that compassionately.

Do you still have friends "on the other side", that are violent extremists?