Shaping Outreach, Understanding Research, & Community Engagement with Water

03/09/2026

10/31/2025

Goulais Community - we want to hear your stories!
Come join us, bring your family for an evening of chats and snacks in our shared love of all things water💧🌊

🗓️Wednesday, November 19
⏰5:00pm-7:00pm
📍Captain Tilley Community Centre: 592 ON-552 West, Goulais River
🫂Everyone is Welcome!

Register using the QR code!

10/10/2025

Volunteer Spotlight! 🌟🌟
Who says science is just for classrooms?
Meet this mother and daughter team who just schooled us all - 8 weeks of water monitoring, certificate earned, and proof that there's no age limit to protecting our waters!

Become a Water Ranger and this could be you!!💧💙

09/24/2025

Happy Water Wednesday!
💧 As September winds down, don’t forget — the NORDIK Water Team is here for classroom presentations and community events!
📚 Teachers: we can bring curriculum-based lessons on water quality straight to your students, making learning hands-on and fun.
✨ If you’re interested (or know someone who might be), send us a message — we’d love to connect!

09/19/2025

Happy Friday!
They may be set to a song about angels, but these shrimp-like critters aren’t heavenly beings—they’re freshwater scuds!🦐
Despite their delicate look, scuds are surprisingly tough. They can live in waters that aren’t the cleanest (even polluted!), so they don’t tell us much about water quality.
What they do tell us is how important they are to the ecosystem: they clean up organic matter and algae, and serve as a favourite snack for ducks and other wildlife.

Not quite angels—but still essential little helpers in our waterways!

09/12/2025

Check out a few members of our team after some hard work!
This week, our Northern Great Lakes crew will be in Thessalon and Huron Shores, training in biomonitoring methods 🐞🐛🐜
That means bug collections and eDNA samples will be underway!
But why bugs, you ask? You may have learned through following our page, aquatic insects can tell us a lot about the health of our rivers and streams!

Want to learn more about our biomonitoring work? Reach out - we’d love to share!

A special shoutout to Vivek, our new team member! Welcome to the team Vivek!

09/10/2025

Water Wednesday!
Check out this little friend enjoying their time just shy of the surface!
If you’re lucky, while water monitoring you may be able to see some aquatic critters! 🐟🐠

Perhaps they are curious about what we are doing or they want to thank us for helping them keep their homes healthy!

If you are interested in seeing some of these friends, become a Water Ranger! 💧Most importantly, when in the field, always remember to respect the lives around us!

09/03/2025

Enjoying our posts? Getting inspired by the water?
Just because summer is coming to an end doesn’t mean water monitoring is too!
There is still time to become a Water Ranger and explore Sault Ste. Marie!
We monitor until the snow and ice take over!❄️
You can too!

Message us for information on how to be a Water Ranger 💙💧

09/02/2025

Another great event for the NORDIK Water Team!

On August 20, The NORDIK water team partnered with Huron North for a cleanup event at Thessalon’s Peace Park.
Happy to report that despite a number of large events that have been held at the park in recent weeks, very little waste was found!
Kudos to the event organizers and the Thessalon park staff for keeping things s***k and span! Big thanks also to the Huron North group for organizing this event and inviting us to join.

Now that summer is over we are so thankful to everyone who came out to events these past few months to support us!

08/22/2025

Remember this little friend?? Well they’re back!🐉🪰
Meet the dragonfly nymph - if you guessed a dragonfly you nailed it! 🐉🪰

Believe it or not, dragonflies spend up to the first 5 years of their short lives underwater! Once they finally emerge, they only spend a few short weeks to zip around in the air before their lifecycle ends.
Even as adults, Dragonflies stick close to the water - it’s where they lay eggs, hunt smaller insects, and enjoy their time in the sun ☀️

Because they’re so tied to the water, dragonflies need clean, healthy ecosystems to thrive. Water pollution can seriously impact them 🗑️ Which makes them awesome bioindicators of water quality! 💧

So if you spot a dragonfly nymph (yes, even with those funny legs) take it as a great sign - your water is likely in excellent shape 💧

Now that you know their name, don't be afraid to say hello 👋🪳💧

08/20/2025

Today's Water Wednesday showcases a special guest!
Dr. Roxana Sühring will be joining us on August 27, 2025 at 12:00pm as our Webinar guest speaker!

Dr. Roxana Sühring is an Assistant Professor in Analytical Environmental Chemistry at the Department for Chemistry and Biology at Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds doctor of natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) degree in environmental chemistry from the Leuphana University in Lueneburg and conducted postdoctoral research in Germany, Canada, and Sweden. From 2016-2018 she led a regulatory scientist team at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science. During this time, she also was the policy advisor to the Netherland’s delegation for the OSPAR Offshore Industry Committee (OIC) regarding offshore chemicals and advisor for the UK Ministry of Defence regarding potentially polluting shipwrecks.
Her interdisciplinary research encompasses the development of innovative analytical strategies for the characterization of plastic pollutants in water as well as the development of analysis strategies to help understand the chemical, physical and socio-economic factors that drive the observed pollution patterns.
She is a sought-after invited and keynote speaker at international conferences and was featured in the Agilent Technologies Podcast "Spectral Stories from the North", the microplastic information campaign by Ocean Diagnostic, le Journal de Québec documentary “Microplastiques: Menace dans le Saint-Laurent", and as editor and author in the children’s journal “Frontiers for Young Minds”.

Remember to register for the webinar to hear Dr. Sühring speak about Microplastics!
Thank you for joining us Dr. Sühring !

08/18/2025

Microplastics Monday!
Who is ready for another exciting event!!
Join us in our first ever Webinar!💻
Join local researchers and guest speakers, bring your burning questions as we talk about microplastics!