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• LEC Ph.D. candidate and NSF GK-12 Fellow Nate Manning was awarded $15,000 grant to analyze the relationship between recent land use alterations in the Maumee River watershed and fluctuations in the growth and abundance of yellow perch in the western basin of Lake Erie from the Ohio Lake Erie Commission
   
• LEC Ph.D. candidate and NSF GK-12 Fellow Justin Chaffin (pictured at right) is featured in the WGTE Public Media story, Lake Erie Legacy: Preventing Harmful Algal Blooms
  
  
• NSF Gk-12 Fellows Justin Chaffin, Nate Manning and Tim Sullivan presented a public lecture at the Lake Erie Center on September 15, 2011: "Lake Erie - a changing ecosystem."
  
  
• Reports from Student Watershed Watch (featuring the LEC's NSF GK-12 Program):
  • NBC24: Students present results of water testing, 11/16/2010
  • EcoTrack11: Students offer up results from water quality tests, 11/16/2010
  • UT News: High school students test local streams, 10/29/2010
  • EcoTrack 11: Students test water in Ottawa River, 10/13/2010
  • NBC24: Students test water quality of local streams, 10/13/2010 
    
• Congratulations to Ph.D. students Lindsey Pierce and Amanda Haponski for winning International Association for Great Lakes Research scholarships! Lindsey won an IAGLR Scholarship for her work on a rapid genetic test for the VHS fish virus; Amanda won the Norman S. Baldwin fishery scholarship award for her work on the genetic basis underlying walleye stock structure in Lake Erie. (Pictured left to right: Lindsey Pierce, Amanda Haponski and IAGLR Board President Linda Campbell) 
   
• Congratulations to GK-12 Teachers Michelle Bogue, Tim Bollin, Dave Bourland, Paulette Cole, and Ann HajIbrahim for winning 2011 Lake Erie Western Alliance for Sustainability (LEWAS) FROGGY Awards. These awards are given to high school teachers who have gone above and beyond for environmental science and who inspire sustainability in the classroom. 
   
• LEC Ph.D. candidate and NSF Gk-12 Fellow Justin Chaffin is featured in the WGTE Public Media story, Lake Erie Legacy: Preventing Harmful Algal Blooms.
   
• The Toledo Blade reports GK-12 Fellow Todd Crail wins the 2010 Brundage Scholarship (1/18/2010)

• The Toledo Blade reports on the GK-12 SWW program at Scott High School (12/13/2009)
  
  
• The Toledo Blade reports on GK-12 project at Bowsher High School (04/19/2009)
  
  
• The Toledo Blade reports on the Lake Erie Center's NSF GK-12 grant (03/23/2008)
  
  
• UT News, "New grant makes splash in local environmental science community" (02/11/2008)