Work Package 1

This work package will focus on the potential future impacts of climate change induced human migration to the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem and human health. It will interact with communities in Ontario,, Toronto with GCTW, Hamilton  with GCTW, Mississauga with U of Toronto @ Mississauga and Six Nations of the Grand River with GCTW. We will engage First Nations communities, led by Marin-Hill, beginning with Six Nations of the Grand River, holding listening-sessions with Knowledge Keepers at the start of the project to help inform nonindigenous research, and in the last year of the project, determine areas of alignment and areas of divergence.

Work Package 1 will interface with that team as they examine governance and adaptation options for Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, as well as SN. The research team develops knowledge by focusing on several transboundary Indigenous, U.S., and Canadian communities, resulting in the development of water governance assessment frameworks that incorporate data from hydroclimate modeling  and water quality research