Research
Georgian Bay Forever is the only science-based pan-Georgian Bay charity organization. We are uniquely driven and qualified to survey and track the health and state of Georgian Bay waters, and determine the best and most effective courses of action based on objective data.
This project was designed to increase the amount of homes in southern Georgian Bay with laundry machine filters, thereby diverting microplastic waste out of the water while providing critical data.
In partnership with Environment and Climate Change Canada, we recruited citizen scientists to help ground-truth information on the presence of potentially harmful algal bloom on Georgian Bay shores.
Through the use of GPS-tagged bottles, we tracked the natural flow of litter from major entry points into Georgian Bay, providing data that is now being shared by an outside data analyst on a global scale.
Our Ongoing Technological Monitoring
We use the AUV to model the impacts of climate change, water levels, increasing urban development, industrial and municipal spills, sewage overflows, septic failures, bacterial contamination, and the success of conservation measures.
visually survey the deep waters of Georgian Bay. We have directly observed and helped to ground-truth satellite models of the impacts of climate change, sediment, raw sewage discharges, urban development, nuisance algae, and submerged aquatic vegetation growth.
Drone - DJI Matrice 300
We scan sites of invasive Phragmites to identify and map those areas for reference in our eradication efforts. Locations are recorded in decimal degrees (latitude and longitude), invasive lineage is confirmed, and the area of the patch is recorded using ESRI FieldMaps.
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Charitable Number 89531 1066 RR 0001
P.O. Box 75347
Leslie Street
Toronto, ON M4M 1B3
(905) 880-4945