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Alethia Kaseben, Great Lakes Echo
Jan 26 2012
The Great Lakes are difficult to study during the winter. It’s cold, the ice is thick and there probably isn’t much going on under there, right? Wrong. Clarkson University biologist Michael Twiss and other Great Lakes scientists have discovered there is a lot going on under the ice. “When I was working up in Canada, I won a grant to use the coast guard vessel to study for a week,” Twiss said. “I wanted to use it as late in the season as possible, which was November. We found a lot of interesting stuff. “ Among the things he discovered is a high concentration of algae in Lake Erie during the winter. That’s unlike spring when there are almost no algae present. |
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