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, 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.

• Ph.D. student research assistantships in invasion genetics
• Fish ecosystem postdoctoral opportunity

Recent News

• Congratulations to Ph.D. student Todd Crail (pictured at right), winner of the 2010 Brundage Scholarship. View the January, 18, 2010, Toledo Blade article. The award will be presented before the public lecture on January 21, at 6:30 pm at the Lake Erie Center.
  
  
• Recent LEC talks by Dr. David Schwab and Dr. Tim Berra are now available on our video page.
  
  
• UT Lake Erie Research Center tries to curb Carp invasion, NBC 24 Toledo, December 14, 2009
  
  
• Scott's watershed team gets immersed in work, by Steve Pollick, Toledo Blade, December 13, 2009

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