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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Frenchman’s bay in Ontario has excessive weeds so their solution is this aquatic weed harvester

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big waves in Toronto today from easterly wind gusting at 10 m/s

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New winter limnology paper doi.org/10.1002/lno.... “The length of winter influences the dissolved oxygen dynamics in a large ice-covered dimictic lake”

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The wind had pushed iceberg ashore near Alert base

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Snow was falling on the high Arctic lake where we deployed a thermistor chain to monitor winter dynamics

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dumbell lake on Ellesmere Island is only ice free for 5-6 weeks, hopefully wind dies down soon....

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Waiting for the wind to calm down so we can go on our lake..

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Interesting periodic patterns formed by waves on a beach

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We are excited about #aslo in Montreal this week. Our group will talk about how various physical processes influence lake dynamics.

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Water levels in Lake Ontario are rising quickly - ijc.org/en/loslrb/wa...

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The ASL0-SIL meeting starts in sbout 2 weeks. This workshop might be of interest www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202... WS11 Tutorials in Physical Limnology for Biologists and Chemists Date/Time: Thursday, 14-May-26, 13:00-14:15 Location: 519A

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Highland creek at UTSC after thunderstorms this morning

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

inspiredplanet.ca/hidden-below...

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/missions...

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

CN tower with waves in foreground

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Sunrise in frozen harbour with tugboat breaking ice. -22°C Toronto

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Frozen ships in -22°C in to Toronto harbour

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The new TTC map is up - line 5 and 6 might actually be happening in Toronto? #TTC

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Join us for an exciting session on physical limnology at the ASLO-SIL Joint Meeting, May 12–16, 2026, in Montréal, Canada www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/ We are convening Special Session SS004: Physical Limnology—Dynamics, Drivers, and Change in Inland Waters. 🌊

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Science communication sign in Halifax with pictures of secchi disk

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Nibi =water Street sign to waters of Toronto

Sign to rivers, creeks and lakes near Toronto

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The horseshoe falls look like a massive wave cresting over and breaking with an incredible roar

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

New paper on winter limnology of Lake Ontario now out- “Unique thermal mixing patterns in Lake Ontario revealed by novel year-round observations of thermal stratification” Open access link at aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It’s October and the water is still warm at beach in Toronto with swimming still possible!

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Hundreds of canoes ready to go

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Large Algoma freight ship in Toronto

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

A salmon on Don River inToronto

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

New winter limnology paper “Enhancing winter climate simulations of the Great Lakes: insights from a new coupled lake–ice–atmosphere (CLIAv1) system on the importance of integrating 3D hydrodynamics with a regional climate model” gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Often September is warm for swimming, but right now the city is reporting 5 °C at the Toronto beaches due to an upwelling of cold water! www.openwaterdata.com/site/woodbin...

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A whole lot of buoys at RAEOn getting ready for field deployments

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

New park at mouth of Don River open, now possible to kayak around Villers island.

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The Physical Processes in Natural waters (PPNW) meeting was a great success, with ~70 excellent talks and posters.

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The PPNW conference is live and going well!

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Preparing mooring lines to measure the movements of thermocline in lake Simcoe

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Lake current monitoring system at Harris water treatment plant in Toronto

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Wind drives transport of macroplastics in Toronto Harbour. In some cases the plastics left Toronto harbour travelling over 100 km across Lake Ontario. Open Access link = www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wind drives movements on macroplastics in Toronto Harbour. In some cases the plastics left Toronto harbour travelling over 100 km across Lake Ontario.

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

New paper on plastic waste in Toronto Harbour. "Wind driven transport of macroplastic debris in a large urban harbour measured by GPS-tracked drifters Open Access link = www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The video below shows the pathways that floating plastics were driven by the wind.

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Instrument recovered after long winter- hopefully it recorded ice thickness and water currents!

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Red sun at dawn - the smoke from the prairie fires had reached Toronto

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Our under-ice buoy was successfully recovered from a long deployment in lake Simcoe- soon we’ll know how changes in ice thickness influenced the phytoplankton and dissolved oxygen levels last winter! ❄️🧊🌊

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A picture from 1960s of drouges used to measure water currents in Lake Ontario.

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I am looking forward to help analyze glider data that will show the changes in mixing as Lake Ontario warms through 4°C. Below this temperature heating leads to mixing, above 4°C stratification can form. The lateral gradients in temperature are clear is SST plot from NOAA.

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

In particular interesting to see how the Great Lakes were depicted over last 400 years - from 0 to 2 to 5 lakes

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