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Wind and -20°C created some wild ice on the trees by beach in #Toronto
07.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Highly recommend taking a spin on the lake tomorrow in the sun. Walk off the beach at Snake Island onto the solid ice.
01.02.2026 03:13 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Sunrise in frozen harbour with tugboat breaking ice.
-22°C Toronto
Frozen Toronto harbour
Frozen ships in -22°C in to Toronto harbour
24.01.2026 13:01 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Interesting mix of fluid dynamics and biology
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Image featuring a whale shark swimming in a deep blue ocean, with text overlay stating 'PROTECTING OUR PLANET. The High Seas Treaty creates a global framework to safeguard marine biodiversity beyond borders #GoToGlobal.'
The #HighSeasTreaty is now in force! unlocking the path to protect half our planet, the High Seas.
📢 Now’s the time for more countries to ratify and be part of the first #BBNJCOP.
https://highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratification/a-wave-of-messages-for-the-high-seas/
#60toGlobal
Snowy beach
Snow on the beach in Toronto
13.12.2025 12:51 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 223 weeks: 98.6% RE (1/5)
Bike chains sculpture
Bike chains
A wild sculpture in Toronto made out of bike chains ⛓️ 🚲
03.12.2025 01:48 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The new delta of Don River is now visible on satellite maps!
01.12.2025 12:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our new island is now showing up on Google Maps! (Ookwemin Minising island in Toronto)
30.11.2025 13:09 — 👍 79 🔁 6 💬 6 📌 1
The new TTC map is up - line 5 and 6 might actually be happening in Toronto?
#TTC
Hydrology Paper of the Day @efdtoronto.bsky.social on how GPS trackers quantify the movement of plastic debris in Toronto Harbour on Lake Ontario: calculation of plastic drift velocities and paths; relationships with wind patterns and water current variabilities; and a geography of water circulation
28.11.2025 03:49 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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The Halifax wave 🌊
09.11.2025 19:19 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Science communication sign in Halifax with pictures of secchi disk
09.11.2025 08:27 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Nibi =water
Sign to rivers, creeks and lakes near Toronto
Nibi =water
Street sign to waters of Toronto
The horseshoe falls look like a massive wave cresting over and breaking with an incredible roar
19.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New winter limnology paper out
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
“How Ice Composition Controls Radiatively Driven Convection Under Lake Ice”
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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....
It’s October and the water is still warm at beach in Toronto with swimming still possible!
05.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hundreds of canoes ready to go
27.09.2025 12:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Large Algoma freight ship in Toronto
27.09.2025 12:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A lot of water after thunderstorms
22.09.2025 22:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A salmon on Don River inToronto
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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/...
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...
