LEC News and Reports
- The Lake Erie Center has received a 2013 UT Women & Philanthropy grant! The funds
will be used to install interactive, educational displays in our lobby. For more details,
see the UT News article.
- Tracking viral infection in Lake Erie fish -- Ohio SeaGrant Twineline article on the
LEC's VHSv research
- The summer 2013 LEC newsletter is available for download (PDF, 1.8 mb)
- LEC Environmental Remediation & Restoration Lab Researcher Pam Struffolino discusses
beach contamination and safety in this WTVG 13 Toledo report.
- Several LEC researchers were interviewed for a special in-depth story on Lake Erie, written and published in five parts by The Buffalo
News.
- Recent LEC public lectures may be viewed on the WGTE KnowledgeStream webiste: Dr. Alan Steinman on ecosystem restoration; Dr. Patrick Lawrence on the Ottawa River; Dr. Jiquan Chen on global change.
- Congratulations to Dr. Jon Bossenbroek, recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award! Dr.
Bossenbroek will conduct research at the University of West Indies in Trinidad and
Tobago during the 2013-2014 academic year, focusing on the economic impacts of marine
aquatic invasive species in the Caribbean.
- Congratulations to LEC graduate student Jason Ross, winner of the 2013 Dr. Robert
Brundage Memorial Scholarship, sponsored by the Western Lake Erie Waterkeepers!
- 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 Timothy Sullivan (advisor Dr. Carol Stepien) on the successful
defense of his M.S. thesis, "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.
- Presentations from "Lake Erie: Our Shared Future", a session at the October 26 Greentown
Toledo Conference, are posted for viewing on the KnowledgeStream website: Dr. Jon Bossenbroek on invasive species; Dr. Tom Bridgeman on harmful algal blooms; Gail Hesse on key issues facing Lake Erie; Sandy Bihn on Lake Erie Waterkeepers; Joe Cappel on the Toledo port.
- Dr. Ronald Oldfield's October public lecture, "Back from the brink: Understanding
how environment affects behavior, aids recovery of Ohio brook trout", is available
to view on the KnowledgeStream website.
- Interdisciplinary team swims together to track fish killer, UT News, November 2, 2012
- Congratulations to PIs Dr. Carol Stepien and Dr. Daryl Dwyer, both of whom were awarded 2012 EPA Great Lakes Restoration Grants. Our next newsletter
will feature detailed information about their new research projects.
- Feds back research to stop Great Lakes invasions, WSJ, October 2, 2012
- Initiative to restore Lake Erie, September 27, 2012, WNWO Toledo
- The LEC's Fall 2012 newsletter is available for download (8/30/12): PDF 2 mb.
- Congratulations to Mark DuFour (advisor: Dr. Christine Mayer) for successfully defending his M.S. thesis, Quantification of variability, abundance, and mortality in the Maumee River larval
walleye (Sander vitreus) using Bayesian hierarchical models!
- Associate professor [Dr. Jon Bossenbroek] to receive international award for invasive species research, June 28, 2012, UT News
- Site predicts water quality at Maumee Bay State Park, June 22, 2012, Toledo Blade
- Todd Crail (advisor: Dr. Jon Bossenbroek) for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation, "The
ecological niche of darters (Pisces:Percidae) across multiple scales in the Ohio River
Basin"!
- Warm spring weather could spur June algae outbreaks, May 15, 2012, Columbus Dispatch
- Lake Erie Synthesis Team Connects Researchers for 2012 GLRI Proposals, April 30, 2012, Ohio SeaGrant news
- Carbon sensor network to help UT researchers investigate algal blooms, May 4, 2012, UT News
- The Legal Institute of the Great Lakes has posted a white paper and other resources
on reducing harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie -- click to view.
- Congratulations to Ph.D. student Justin Chaffin, first author on one of the "top-25 most cited articles" in the Journal of Great Lakes Research in 2011! Download his paper, Assessment ofMicrocystis growth rate potential and nutrient status across a trophic gradient in western Lake
Erie, written with co-authors T. Bridgeman, S. Heckathorn, and S. Mishra.
- Congratulations to Dr. Jon Bossenbroek, whose paper, Stepping stones for biological invasion: A bioeconomic model of transferable risk, was selected as the best paper published in Environmental and Resource Economics in 2011.
- Congratulations to Ph.D. student Nate Manning, winner of the 2012 Dr. Robert Brundage
Western Lake Erie Waterkeepers Memorial Scholarship!
- Bugs arrive early, March 22, 2012, WTVG Toledo, with graduate student Rachel Kuhaneck.
- Dr. Von Sigler's February public lecture is now online.
- Ph.D. student Nate Manning awarded grant for yellow perch research February, 24 2012, UT News
- We invite people of all ages and skill levels to enter our 2012 Art Contest! Prizes
awarded in multiple categories. Click here for more information.
- Advisories lifed on Ottawa River after 20 years, WTOL Toledo News
- Dr. Tom Bridgeman was a guest on NW Ohio Journal, discussing the Lake Erie algae crisis. View the video.
- Lake Erie Center Director discusses Maumee Bay problems and solutions, January 24, 2012, UT News
- Maumee Bay inspires art at Owens, January 12, 2012, WNWO Toledo News
- Winning entries from our 2011 Photo Contest are posted on our Facebook Page; all entries are on display in the LEC lobby until April 2012! Photos below: (L to
R) Todd Crail; Deepesh Bista; Maggie Dandar.
- Our November public lecture, "Past, Present, and Future Problems, Trends, and Solutions
for the Most Important Lake in the World: Lake Erie," by Dr. Jeffrey Reutter, is available
on the KnowledgeStream website.
- Our October public lecture, "Assessment and Restoration of Fish and Wetland Habitats
in the Great Lakes," given by Dr. Scudder Mackey, is available for viewing on the KnowledgeStream website.
- Our September public lecture, "Lake Erie, a changing ecosystem," by Justin Chaffin,
Nathan Manning and Tim Sullivan, is available on the KnowledgeStream website. Part 1 (Chaffin); Part 2 (Manning); Part 3 (Sullivan).
- Congratulations to Osvaldo Jhonatan Sepulveda Villet (advisor: Dr. Carol Stepien)
for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation, "Population genetic structure and
biogeographic patterns in the yellow perch Perca flavescens."
- Toxic algae bloom rages in Lake Erie, October 12, 2011, Detroit Free Press
- The LEC's Fall 2011 newsletter is available for download (PDF, 13 mb)
- The Lake Erie Center has received the 2011 Ohio Lake Erie organization award for its
outstanding commitment to protecting and promoting Lake Erie and its watershed! Read more.
- Lake Erie death watch, August 31, 2011, Onearth
- Lake Erie algae bloom is a growing problem, August 30, 2011, WTVG ABC 13
- Shotaro Hirase, who spent two months studying in Dr. Stepien's lab this summer, is
featured in a UT News article: Researcher displaced by Japan tsunami continues studies at UT
- Algae bloom in Lake Erie causing increased toxicity, August 29, 2011, WTOL CBS 11 (featuring Dr. Tom Bridgeman)
- Congratulations to Kristen DeVanna, who successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation,
"Spatial correlation and facilitation between Dreissena and Hexagenia: Possible food-web disruption," on August 26, 2011. We wish Dr. DeVanna the best
as she moves on to a post-doctoral position at the Ohio State University!
- Kent Bekker's June 2011 Naturalist Tuesday talk on amphibians and reptiles in NW Ohio
is posted on theKnowledgeStream website.
- Our May 2011 public lecture, by Amie Brady, Dr. Kris Barnswell and Corey Schwab, is
posted on the KnowledgeStream website.
- Media coverage of the August 8, 2011, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative press conference,
held at the Lake Erie Center:
- West Lake Erie again fighting bloom of algae, August 7, 2011, Toledo Blade
- Agricultural pollution blamed for Lake Erie blooms, fish woes, July 29, 2011, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
- 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.
- Runaway algae returns to Lake Erie, June 23, 2011, WBEZ 91.5 story and interview with Dr. Tom Bridgeman.
- Mayflies begin to invade Port Clinton, June 16, 2011, WTVG Toledo (featuring LEC Ph.D. candidate Kristen DeVanna).
- Local state park braces for summer water woes, June 12, 2011, Toledo Blade.
- Nowcasting Beach Advisories coming to Maumee Bay State Park, May 9, 2011, WTVG Toledo.
- Maumee Bay joins water quality forecasts, May 9, 2011, Toledo Blade.
- Press Release, April 28, 2011: Researchers in Dr. Daryl Dwyer's Environmental Remediation and Restoration Laboratory
at the LEC, in partnership with the USGS, are initiating a "Nowcast Beach Advisory
System" at Maumee Bay State Park, which will inform beach goers of daily water quality
conditions.
Nowcasting at the Lake Erie MBSP beach will begin May 31. Our public lecture on May 5 will detail the Nowcast System and
the associated predictive modeling.
- Outlaw mussels invade the West, Ecological Society of America Ecotone, April 7, 2011, featuring the work of LEC director Dr. Carol Stepien.
- Jeremy Pritt's March Public Lecture ("Maumee Bay Ecosystem Function: Effects of the
Bayshore Power Plant and Other Environmental Variables") is posted on the KnowledgeStream website
- Dr. Julie Wolin's Feb. Public Lecture ("From Burning to Blooming River: Habitat Restoration
in the Lower Cuyahoga") is available on the KnowledgeStream website.
- From Dr. Christine Mayer's Aquatic Ecology Lab -- Undergrad Robert Mapes with Michael
Kuebbeler and Graduate students Jeremy Pritt and Mark DuFour, bring you a slideshow
of some of the larval fish they've sampled in the Maumee River and Lake Erie. Larval
fish season is nearing! Get to know the baby fish you might see in our area.
- Congratulations to Ph.D. student Betsy Bodamer Scarboro, winner of the 2011 Waterkeeper
Dr. Robert Brundage Memorial Scholarship!
- UT studies virus in Lake Erie, February 10, 2011 Independent Collegian article
- Winter/Spring 2011 LEC Newsletter available (PDF)
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