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The LEC is open to the public
Monday - Friday, 9am - 4:30pm
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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, 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.
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Upcoming Events |
- Special Brown Bag Seminar, Dr. Tim Berra, The Ohio State University, "Chasing nurseryfish and avoiding crocodiles in Northern Australia." Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12 pm, Lake Erie Center Room 155.
- Darwin Day: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the College of Arts & Sciences and the 150th Anniversary of On the Origin of Species -- Special Lecture by Dr. Tim Berra, The Ohio State University, "Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man." Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 7 pm, at the University of Toledo's Doermann Theatre. Book signing to follow. Download the flyer.
- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, Joshua Brown (advisor: Dr. Carol Stepien), "Genetic Portraits of Introduced Gobies and Mussels: Population Variation Delineates Invasion Pathways." November 24, 2009, 1 pm, Lake Erie Center Room 155.
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Recent News |
- LEC graduate students Kris Barnswell and Osvaldo Jhonatan Sepulveda Villet won 1st place awards in the Environmental Sciences Division of the 2009 Sigma Xi/Scholars' Celebration Student Research Symposium, held October 24, 2009 at the University of Toledo.
- Lake Erie Center featured in the November issue of UT Matters. View the feature ad (PDF).
- Massive algae blooms threaten Lake Erie, Detroit News, October 10, 2009
- The LEC's rain garden dedication was held with Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur on Monday, October 5, 2009. View the Channel 13/ABC report and the EcoTrack 11 feature.
- Lake Erie algae blooms linked to underwater sediment shifts, Toledo Blade, September 29, 2009
- Dr. Tom Bridgeman and graduate student Justin Chaffin's research on harmful algal blooms is featured in the Summer/Fall 2009 issue of Twine Line. Download a PDF of the publication
- Dr. Robert Brundage honored in fund for scholarship, $500 awards to benefit Lake Erie Center researchers, Toledo Blade, September 28, 2009
- Increase in Lake Erie algae worries scientists; system will help sound warning, Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 23, 2009
More News and Reports
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Looking north onto Maumee Bay
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