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A lot has changed since John Gunn arrived in Sudbury in the late 1970s.
The landscape at that time was “largely barren,” noted the director of the Living With Lakes Centre, leaving his young wife to ponder: “Are we really going to stay here?”
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The couple would indeed stick around, with Gunn studying the impacts of acid on lakes and helping to found the Freshwater Ecology Unit at Laurentian University in 1989.
Over his career, he would also witness, and document, a remarkable transformation.