Lake Erie Center
: Current Reports and News

• Lake Erie Center releases 2009 annual report (8/28/2009) 
  
• Spring/Summer 2009 LEC newsletter available (04/16/2009)
  
• October Western Basin Bulletin now available (10/22/2008)
  
• Dr. Egan's Northwest Ohio Wetland Survey (08/21/2008)
  
• Lake Erie Center releases 2008 annual report (07/11/2008)
  
• Drs. Egan and Dwyer release report on Maumee Bay, "The Value of Restoring Wetlands for Maumee Bay State Park Beach Visitors" (02/18/2008)

• LEC graduate students Kris Barneswell 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
  
  
• Dr. Carol Stepien featured in "The Siscowette: profiling women in science in the Great Lakes," September 2009 (view online or download the PDF)
  
  
• Matthew Neilson (advisor: Dr. Carol Stepien) successfully defended his dissertation, "Evolution, systematics, and phylogeography of Ponto-Caspian gobies (Benthophilinae: Gobiidae: Teleostei)" on Thursday, September 10, 2009.
  
  
• Graduate student opportunity - fish ecosystem research, Maumee Bay region; Department of Environmental Sciences and Lake Erie Center. Click for more details.
  
  
• Scientists take technology to the sky to battle Lake Erie algae, EcoTrack 11 article and interview with Dr. Tom Bridgeman, August 24, 2009
  
  
• SkySentry Aerostat balloon to keep tabs on algae growth in Lake Erie, Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 20, 2009
  
  
• LEC graduate student Audra Croskey (advisor Dr. Jon Bossenbroek) defended her M.Sc. thesis, "Evaluating the costs of the emerald ash borer invasion in Ohio," on Tuesday, August 18, 2009.
  
  
• LEC graduate student Justin Chaffin defended his M.Sc. thesis, "Physiological Ecology of Microcystis Blooms in Turbid Waters of Western Lake Erie," on July 21, 2009 (advisor: Dr. Tom Bridgeman)
  
  
• UT expertise to take center stage during monthly broadcast on WJR (Drs. Stepien and Moorhead are scheduled guests), UT News, June 22, 2009
  
  
• Graduate students Colleen Gorey and Osvaldo Jhonatan Sepulveda Villet were given "Student of the Month" awards at the Public Lecture on June 18, 2009, for their outstanding contributions during the 2009 IAGLR conference.
  
  
• Lake Erie Center VHS research featured in Great Lakes Echo (6/18/2009)
  
  
• Dr. Gottgens featured on WTOL's Ecotrack 11 report on rain gardens (5/29/2009)
  
  
• Media coverage from The International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) 52nd annual conference, "Bridging Ecosystems and Environmental Heath across our Great Lakes," held May 18 - 22, 2009, at the University of Toledo.
  • WTOL Ecotrack 11 report on the IAGLR 52nd annual conference
    
  • UT site for Great Lakes research event, May 15, Port Clinton News Herald
    
  • Meeting on lakes spotlights UT's gains, May 18, Toledo Blade
  • Great Lakes scientists soliciting research topics from the public, May 19, Toledo Blade
    
    
• UT News, "UT to be awash in Great Lakes research" (3/10/2009)
  
  
• Dr. Stepien featured on WTOL's Ecotrack 11, "Great Lakes Day." (2/19/2009)
  
  
• Dr. Stepien featured on WGTE's Plugged-In, "Fish Infirmary: Keeping Lake Erie Inhabitants Healthy." (10/15/2008)
  
  
• Dr. Bridgeman featured in Cleveland Plain Dealer article, “Algae Again in Bloom in Lake Erie.” (9/20/2008)
  
  
• Lake Erie Center awarded a $209,126 federal grant to study deadly fish disease (07/11/2008)  
  
  
• Colleen Wellington to defend M.S. thesis at Lake Erie Center on Wednesday, July 9th, at 1:30pm (07/07/2008)
   
  
• Lake Erie Center research lab to kickoff Environmental Remediation and Restoration Experimental Park (05/30/2008)
  
  
• Dr. Stepien featured in a Detroit Free Press editorial titled "Great Invasion of the Lakes" (05/11/2008)
  
  
• U.S. Senator George Voinovich holds Great Lakes Roundtable at the Lake Erie Center (04/21/2008)
  
  
• Lake Erie Center researchers to present at Western Lake Erie Conference (03/12/2008)
  
  
• The Lake Erie Center to host the International Association of Great Lakes Researchers (IAGLR) 2009 (03/05/2008)
  
  
• Earthwatch article, "High School Teacher and Students Delve Into Conservation Genetics at the Lake Erie Center" (02/15/2008) 
  
  
• UT News, "New grant makes splash in local environmental science community" (02/11/2008)
  
  
• A report on "detective" work performed by the Great Lakes Genetics Lab in The Capital Times (02/11/2008)
  
  
• LEC photo contest "The Nature of Maumee Bay" Winners

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