Environment Canada Great Lakes diagram workshop

Environment Canada Great Lakes diagram workshopIn late February, Caroline Wicks and Brianne Walsh traveled to Oakville, Ontario for a workshop with Environment Canada and W.F. Baird & Associates to develop graphics for the Great Lakes Integrated Nearshore Framework. The Nearshore Framework will bring consistency to the assessment of ecosystem health in the nearshore and provide a model for governance, priority setting, and action planning in the Great Lakes Watershed. IAN was tasked with the creation of several diagrams and base maps that can be used to communicate the basic science, key issues of concern, and linkages between the ecosystem and humans within the Great Lakes watershed. These diagrams will be available via the Nearshore Framework, which is slated to be complete in 2016.