The Crawford Lake cluster meets with Conservation Halton's Indigenous Governance body to set the protocols and the research questions for the network's first field intensive.
The lake is meromictic — its layers never mix — which makes its sediment record unusually legible, and made it the Anthropocene Working Group's candidate for a global stratigraphic marker. Our work reads the same core for what the marker leaves out: twelfth-century Iroquoian corn pollen, the collapse in tree pollen from settler logging, and sediment from a nineteenth-century settler sawmill.
Planning covers the locative media installation, the composite ethnography approach, and the terms on which the research proceeds.