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The LEC is open to the public
Monday - Friday, 9am - 4:30pm
Map to the LEC
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The University of Toledo's Lake Erie Center is an interdisciplinary research and education center dedicated to solving environmental problems at the land-water interface and bay-lake exchanges in the Great Lakes - the world's largest freshwater ecosystem. The Lake Erie Center is an integral environmental resource of the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Toledo and is located in the northwestern corner of Ohio's Maumee Bay State Park. Research at the Lake Erie Center explores the linkages among land use, aquatic resources, water quality, sustainable living and human health - using the Maumee River and Bay and its key influence on the western Lake Erie Basin as a model. The Lake Erie Center assembles within a single facility programs and expertise in aquatic conservation, bioremediation and restoration, coastal zone processes, environmental chemistry and hydrology, ecology and ecosystem management, fishery genetics, geography and land use planning, limnology, remote sensing, and environmental and health monitoring.
Please note: due to Oregon's "Big Ditch Improvement Project," there is construction along Bayshore Road and it may be closed periodically. Bayshore Road and the LEC may still be accessed via Stadium Road. For directions to the LEC, click here. |
Upcoming Events |
- Public Lecture Series, Dr. David F. Reid, NOAA-Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, "Ballast Water Discharge Standards in the Real World - the Verification Sticky Wicket." Thursday, September 30, 2010, 7:00 pm, LEC Room 155.
- Ohio Coastweeks Event: Bayshore Cleanup, Friday, September 24, 2010, beginning at 9 am. Volunteers (all welcome!) should meet outside the Lake Erie Center, along the west driveway (outside of the wet lab). Pizza lunch for all volunteers! For a full list of all Ohio Coastweeks events, click here (PDF). Ohio Coastweeks is sponsored in part by the Ohio Lake Erie Commission.
- Nature of Maumee Bay Photo Contest entries due, Friday, October 1, 2010. For information about the contest and how to enter, click here. To download the flyer (PDF), click here.
- Public Lecture Series, Dr. Mohamed Faisal, Michigan State University, "Emerging Infections may threaten Great Lakes fisheries." Thursday, October 21, 2010, 7:00 pm, LEC Room 155.
- Public Lecture Series, Dr. R. Michael McKay, Bowling Green State University, "Life under Ice: Winter Biodiversity and Implications of Climate Change on the Lake Erie Ecosystem." Thursday, November 18, 2010, 7:00 pm, LEC Room 155.
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Recent News |
 Photos from the LEC's 2010 Summer Science Camp are available on our Flickr Photo Page.
- The Lake Erie Center has been awarded a new NSF Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML) grant to assemble and implement a real-time collaborative environmental sensor network to evaluate carbon/water cycling in the Great Lakes. The environmental sensor system will consist of eddy covariance flux sensors on towers in Lake Erie along with a mobile unit, to collect and disseminate essential data on the net ecosystem exchange of green house gases (CO2, CH4), H2O, and energy, as well as the physical and chemical properties of the Western Lake Erie Basin.
- Beaches along Lake Erie warn of algae, ABC 13 report and interview with Dr. Tom Bridgeman, August 13, 2010
- Ph.D. student Amanda Haponski is featured in the August 2010 issue of Siscowette.
- Record outbreak of toxic algae feared for Lake Erie after hot summer, August 2, 2010 Toledo Blade article featuring the work of LEC professor Dr. Tom Bridgeman
- Blimp keeps eye on Lake Erie, August 2, 2010 Toledo Blade article
- Blue-green algae killing Lake Erie, NBC 24 report featuring the work of LEC professor Dr. Tom Bridgeman and Ph.D. student Justin Chaffin, July 30, 2010
- Winners of the 2010 "Nature of Maumee Bay" art contest and their families were recognized at an awards reception on July 14, 2010. The winning artwork will be on display at the Lake Erie Center through October; to view the artwork online, click here. (Pictured at right, the 1st place entry in the teen category, by Elanor Clark)
- Lake Erie wets down teachers, students while firing scientific excitement, Cynthia Nowak, UT News, July 6, 2010
- Mayflies: millions crunching underfoot: June 17, 2010 WTVG news story featuring PhD student Kristen DeVanna
More News and Reports
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Lake Erie Center WebCam |
Our webcam looks north onto Maumee Bay, across the street from our building (pictured at left, photo by Don Kemp)
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Technical info: Apple iSight running on EvoCam
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