The University of Toledo

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Support research and education at the LEC by becoming a "Friend of the Lake Erie Center" for 2013!

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 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. 

• Lake Erie Center Public Lecture: Dr. Jiquan Chen, UT Professor of Environmental Sciences. "Harmonizing Humans and Nature for the Changing Globe". Thursday, April 18, 2013, 7:00 pm. LEC room 155.
  
  
• EarthFest at the University of Toledo: Tuesday, April 23rd, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm, Centennial Mall (rain location: Student Union, Ingman Room, and South Lounge). *Lake Erie Center presentation at 12:15 pm. 
   
• 2013 Art Contest entries due: Friday, April 19, 2013. Click here for more information. All ages and skill levels invited to enter! 
  
  
• 2013 GK-12 Poser Gala: Thursday, May 2, 2013, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Click here for registration form. 
  
  
• 2013 Photo Contest entries due: Friday, October 4, 2013. 

• Algal blooms threaten Lake Erie, New York Times, March 14, 2013 (with Dr. Tom Bridgeman)
  
  
• LEC Director Dr. Carol Stepien is conducting research at the Australian Museum (photo)
  
  
• Congratulations to Tim Sullivan on the successful defense of his M.S. thesis! Tim has worked with Dr. Carol Stepien and the Great Lakes Genetics/Genomics Lab at the LEC. His thesis is: "A Fine-scale Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Population Genetic Patterns in the Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens)".
  
  
• UT highlights research, educational opportunities at global energy summit (with LEC Director Dr. Carol Stepien), UT News, February 13, 2013.
  
  
• LEC Ph.D. student Carson Prichard is featured in the Toledo Blade: Steelhead big man on UT campus, January 6, 2013.
  

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Our webcam looks north onto Maumee Bay, across the street from our building, which is located at 6200 Bayshore Road in Oregon, Ohio. 

Technical info: Apple iSight running on EvoCam

View current weather data from the LEC weather station
View photos from our "The Bay Today" series on our Facebook page