The University of Toledo

2012 Events Archive

• Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Todd Crail (advisor: Dr. Jon Bossenbroek), The ecological niche of darters (Pisces:Percidae) across multiple scales in the Ohio River Basin. 
   
• Regional Event - Biggest Week in American Birding. May 4 - 13, 2012; various locations in the Oregon, Ohio area. Visit the Biggest Week website for details and registration information. Special tour of the Lake Erie Center offered Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at 10 am! 
   
• Nature of Maumee Bay Art Contest entries due: Deadline extended to April 27, 2012. All ages and skill levels welcome; 2D and 3D art accepted. Prizes awarded in multipe age categories! Click here for more details.
   
• DES Seminar: John Dettmers, Senior Fishery Biologist, Great Lakes Fishery Commission, "Fishery Management and Policy in the Great Lakes." Friday, April 27, 2012, 4 pm. UT Main Campus, BO1045.
   
• Lake Erie Center, GK-12 Poster Gala: Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6-8:00 pm. Showcasing research projects of area high school students. Contact rachel.lohner@utoledo.edu for more information. Click here to register.
   
• Public Lecture Series: Dr. Scott Heckathorn, Associate Professor, University of Toledo. "Plants, temperature stress, and global environmental change." Thursday, April 19, 2012, 7:00 pm. LEC room 155.
   
• DES Seminar: Paul Seelbach, USGS Great Lakes Science Center, "Helping build Coastal Ecosystems Science for the Great Lakes." Friday, April 20, 2012, 4 pm. UT Main Campus, BO1045.
   
• DES Seminar: Craig Stow, NOAA-GLERL, "Saginaw Bay: Mussels and Microcystis and Muck, Oh My!" Friday, April 13, 2012, 4 pm. UT Main Campus, BO1045.
   
• The Great Glass City Clean-up, Saturday, April 14, 2012, 2:00 - 5:00 pm. For information about the event and details on how to participate, click here.
   
• M.S. Thesis Defense: Sarah Panek, The ecology of the nuisance cyanobacterium, Lyngbya wollei, in the Western Basin of Lake Erie. Thursday, March 29, 2012, 10 am, Wolfe Hall 1269.
   
• Public Lecture Series: Joseph Lucente, Assistant Professor and Extension Educator, Ohio State University and Ohio Sea Grant College Program. "Building Sustainable Communities in the Lake Erie Watershed." Thursday, March 22, 2012, 7:00 pm. LEC room 155.
  
  
• Public Lecture Series: Dr. Von Sigler, Associate Professor, University of Toledo. "Agricultural application of municipal biosolids: what is the connection to environmental pollution?" Thursday, February 16, 2012, 7:00 pm. LEC room 155.
   
• Public Lecture Series: Dr. G. Allen Burton, Jr., Director, Cooperative Institute for Limnology & Ecosystems Research, and Professor, School of Natural Resources & Environment & Geological Sciences, University of Michigan. "Why we are failing to manage water quality." Thursday, January 19, 2012, 7:00 pm. LEC room 155.