The University of Toledo

Friends of the Lake Erie Center

Become a part of the LEC family by joining Friends of the Lake Erie Center!

Your annual contribution will help support one year of undergraduate and graduate research at the Lake Erie Center. As a member, you will be invited to special LEC functions, including the annual picnic, a pre-lecture dinner and all FOLEC events. In addition, you will receive an LEC gift and a 20% discount on all LEC merchandise.

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. Research at the Lake Erie Center explores the linkages among land use, aquatic resources, water quality, and human health - using the Maumee Watershed and western Lake Erie Basin land-lake continuum as a model of Great Lakes ecosystems. 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, bioeconomics, limnology, human health, remote sensing and environmental monitoring. View our mission statement.

To become a friend of the Lake Erie Center, download and complete the application form (PDF) and return it to:

Lake Erie Center FOLEC Program
6200 Bayshore Road
Oregon, OH 43616

If you have any questions, please call Patricia Uzmann at 419-530-8360. If you would like to receive a program brochure by mail or e-mail, contact Meredith Gray at meredith.gray@utoledo.edu or 419-530-8361.

Be sure to check out our events calendar, browse our research section to learn about current projects, and view our latest news!