01/20/2026
This is crazy. I have been included in this year’s Explorers Club 50 class, which is the “Fifty People Changing the World that the World Needs to Know About.” This is in recognition of the citizen science ice diving initiative that started 4 years ago. By the very nature of this project, it’s not a solo endeavour. The whole thing got started with a chat with . We thought it would be interesting to see if we could get divers to collect fresh water algae samples from the ice bottom. This was an insane idea. It was hard, dangerous and had never been done. It turns out the best way to do something crazy hard is to find the best people. Which we did. The list of divers, engineers, filmmakers, scientists and citizen scientists that have volunteered to help on this project is incredible. In future posts I will be focusing on these team members, but the earliest days were made possible by Dale McKnight, Richard Notter, and (who’s in this photo). was a fantastic sounding board and I’m very excited she’ll be joining us this year.
We’ll be continuing this work in Lake Simcoe in the coming weeks. I’ll be sure to share pics and videos from that adventure as it happens.
A huge thank you to the organizations that made this all possible:
The Consecon Foundation
The Martineau Foundation
