Stone Lab and Ohio Sea Grant have received funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study what causes Lake Erie algal blooms to become toxic.
The Ohio State University junior Madeline Lambrix has spent hours working with water for her project on limnology as part of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Scholarship Program.
Scientists have gotten pretty good at forecasting how large Lake Erie's harmful algal blooms will grow each summer. A new federal government grant is aimed at overcoming the next challenge: figuring out how toxic the blooms will be.
An interdisciplinary team from Michigan State University and The Ohio State University will determine whether Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) investments have influenced how farmers are conducting agricultural operations.