Lakes

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario is a charming town situated at the point where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario. Its nickname, “Loveliest Town in Canada”, is well-deserved. It’s a town rich in both natural and cultural beauty. One of the highlights of its events calendar is the Shaw Festival, which celebrates the works of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries from April to November each year with live performances. Due to its mild climate and number of natural lakes, Niagara-on-the-Lake has become

Lake Toba is an exotic destination –rich in natural beauty as well as a thrilling, yet devastating history. Located on the island of North Sumatra in Indonesia, Lake Toba is the largest volcanic lake in the world. The lake is actually the enormous crater of a super-volcano which last erupted 75,000 years ago. An island formed by volcanic activity can be found in the center of the lake. The island is nearly the size of Singapore and houses a population of about 100,000. To get there, one

The Great Lakes are one of the most important resources not only in the Windsor Essex area but also in North America, it is reported that they contain the second largest amount of fresh water on earth second to the polar ice caps ("Why Are the Great Lakes Important?" Why Are the Great Lakes Important? Ask. Web. 8 July 2015. . ) ("Great Lakes." The Canadian Encyclopedia. 7 Feb. 2006. Web. 8 July 2015. .). Individuals rely on it for drinking water, cooking, economic benefits (fisheries), power, recreation

Zuni Salt Lake Bradbury’s (1967) dissertation research was the first comprehensive study of Zuni Salt Lake maar. Based on a radiocarbon age of 22.9 ± 1.4 ka 14C yr BP (Haynes et al., 1967) on aquatic, calcareous algae from Zuni Salt Lake lacustrine deposits 15 m above the present lake level, he concluded that the Zuni Salt Lake maar formed during the late Pleistocene. This single date provided a maximum age for the Zuni Salt Lake maar but has long been viewed as suspect because of probable hardwater

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alter the composition and assemblage of native epifauna. With the recent explosion of Starry Stonewort in the Great Lakes, it’s important to understand how this invasion can effect native organisms that depend on the native foundation species. In this field observation, we will look into the possibility of a cascading effect that the invasion of Starry stonewort may have in Lake Erie. With observations of areas of varying levels on invasion, abundances of fish can be compared and analyzed to

Asian Carp should be prevented from entering the Great Lakes because they are destroying the ecosystem in that area. They are a negative contribution to the lakes because they are eating all of the plankton needed for the native fish to survive, which in turn will create a mass starvation among all the fish in the area. The Asian Carp are also a hazard to boaters, as they are capable of jumping out of the water and knocking into fishermen. They can take over an area quickly and never leave because

Journalist, Isabella Bird, in her journal, “Lake Tahoe,” expresses her feelings about Lake Tahoe and the journey there. Bird's purpose is to outline her trip and journey to Lake Tahoe. She adopts a nostalgic tone in order to express her feelings to her readers. Bird opens her journal, on September second, by describing what Lake Tahoe looks like in her eyes. It was “not lovable, like the Sandwich Islands, but beautiful in it’s own way!” she is saying that Lake Tahoe is not beautiful in looks however

Description of Ecosystem Lake Winnipeg is the 2nd largest watershed in Canada and the 10th largest lake in the world. It includes parts of four provinces and four of the American states, lying on the boundary between the low relief Interior Plains and the Southwestern Canadian Shield. The drainage basin is 1,000,000 km2. More than 7 million people call Lake Winnipeg home. It has the last remains of the glacial Lake Agassiz. Red, Winnipeg, and Saskatchewan rivers all flow into Lake Winnipeg which makes

Lake Tahoe, an enormous expanse of clear, blue, fresh water surrounded by meadows and dense forests and rimmed by snow-capped peaks, is one of the world's great scenic and ecological wonders. Tahoe's water is world famous for its amazing clarity. Even today, one can see objects 70 feet below the surface, a clarity matched almost nowhere in the world. The Tahoe Basin had a slowly evolving and essentially balanced environment for thousands of years, with surrounding forests, meadows and marshlands