Absolutely. Thank you very much.
There are two facets to speak to. First, there is long-term monitoring of lakes over time in the same way to see how they are changing. Another facet is long-term experiments. At the Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario, we have been doing both for over 50 years.
In terms of funding, long-term funding is so essential because, for people like me who are academics, our funding cycles are on the scale of a couple of years. You can't do large-scale, long-term experiments on NSERC funding cycles. You can't do long-term ecological monitoring of lakes on NSERC funding cycles. This really needs to be done with dedicated funding and dedicated people who stay the same, and securely, through time.