The Water Rangers Team would like to thank the Ontario Centres of Excellence for inviting us to participate in the Social Enterprise Zone of the OCE Discovery 2016 Conference! This past […]
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Ice-Off on Lake Opeongo
Lake Opeongo, Algonquin Parks’s largest lake (and the source of a tributary of the same name which flows to the Ottawa River through the Madawaska) was declared ice-free May 1st, 2016. […]
Thank you, Ontario Trillium Fund!
Hurrah! We have been lucky enough to receive an Ontario Trillium Fund seed grant to help us get the testing and partnerships we need to import more data, make new partnerships, […]
New Partnership!
We are happy to announce that we’ll be working with Mobile Baykeepers over the next two months to work on a pollution reporting component to our app! Thank you so […]
Our Spring Plans
Happy World Water Day! Spring is coming, and that means that Canada’s summer season is coming up soon! We’re getting ready for the big thaw too…. and have big […]
Water Rangers & Aquahacking in Montreal
Last Tuesday I was lucky enough to speak at the Aquahacking press conference. They’re launching a new campaign for a river: the St. Lawrence in Montreal, and want to get more […]
Ice on, ice out!
It’s winter, and not really the time for making freshwater observations… but that’s not really true! Northern folk with cold winters have been measuring “ice on” (when ice completely covers […]
A fall history walk along Brewery Creek
Last Thursday, Mark and I went out with Sheila, John and their lovely dog Breezy to get an update on testing at Brewery Creek. We were treated to the history […]
Cleaning up along the Rideau River
On Sunday, in between rain showers (and an hour later thanks to daylight savings), I helped clean up New Edinburgh park with a bunch of community-driven folks. We had donuts and […]
Testing the waters with the Riverkeepers
On Wednesday, Meaghan Murphy and Meredith Brown from the Ottawa Riverkeepers took me out with them for one last boat trip. They wanted to help me test the waters and […]