Organizational Impediments to Effective Research on Running Waters

Abstract

During the past decade, environmental impact research, of which studies in running waters form an important part, has received increasing public and scientific attention. Indeed, there has been a phenomenal growth in the amount of funding which has been directed toward environmental research in existing Canadian institutions, or toward the creation of new government-based institutes for such research. The time may be opportune to question whether or not the increased amount of public attention, and the resultant changes in patterns of funding for research, have made limnological research in Canada more productive.*

From the beginning we have called attention to the kinds of information a co-operative study might produce, but always we have encouraged individuality in the design and execution of research. We deem this individual research freedom one of the greatest assets of the Hubbard Brook Study.

Likens et al. 1977