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Let's Talk Great Lakes Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources designed to give you good background knowledge on all things Great Lakes!
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Patty Simpson (she/her)
Career Profiles
Environmental Coordinator
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Summer Symposium Series: Climate Career Resources
Backgrounders
A career focused on climate change and sustainability would let you help people by working to help solve the biggest problems of our time.
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Resources on the Environment
STEM Explained
Resource page including articles and career profiles related to the environment.
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Introduction to Climate Change
Backgrounders
Learn more about the causes and impacts of global climate change.
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Introduction to Rivers & Streams
Backgrounders
Learn about the physical geography, chemistry and ecology of rivers and streams.
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Water Treatment
Backgrounders
Learn about how water is treated at municipal water treatment plants.
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Humans and Freshwater Ecosystems
Backgrounders
Learn about how people impact the ecosystems of lakes and rivers.
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Careers in the Great Outdoors
Lessons
Students explore careers related to outdoors and the land and then design and build a water filter prototype.
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Jean Paquin
Water Resources Analyst Engineer at Rio Tinto
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Crack the Code: Water Treatment
Lessons
Students learn about the water treatment process as they complete a digital “escape room” on a Google site.
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Anne Simonen
Career Profiles
Civil Engineering Technologist
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The Dirt on Soil Conservation
STEM Explained
If I asked you to name a few things that all life on the planet couldn’t live without you could probably come up with some good answers, but I bet you’d never think to say dirt.
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Martina Bona
Career Profiles
Process Discipline Specialist