Superior Shoal under the microscope: Is it key to understanding the Great Lakes ecosystem?

Superior Shoal under the microscope: Is it key to understanding the Great Lakes ecosystem?
Crew about a vessel on Lake Superior

A science team from Lakehead University and a film crew from southern Ontario completed a nine-day expedition to explore the Superior Shoal, an underwater mountain that rises nearly 300 metres from the bottom of Lake Superior. The shoal’s remote location has left it something of a mystery, but here’s what the expedition-goers’ work has uncovered.