The University of Toledo

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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. 

Graduate student opportunity in fish ecology: details.    

• Lake Erie Center Public Lecture: Dr. Chris Winslow, Ohio SeaGrant, Stone Laboratory, CLEAR, and GLAERC. "Lake Erie critical issues (e.g., invasive species, harmful algal blooms, dredging, and coastal economic development) and the work being done to address these concerns." Thursday, March 20, 2014, 7:00 pm. LEC room 155.
  
  
• Ph.D. dissertation defense: Betsy Bodamer Scarbro (advisor: Dr. Tom Bridgeman). Friday, March 21, 2014, 11:00 am. LEC room 155.
  
  
• 2014 Art Contest entries due: Friday, April 11, 2014. Click here for more information and instructions for entering the contest. Flyer (PDF)
  
  
• Lake Erie Center Public Lecture: Dr. Kristen DeVanna Fussell, Ohio State University. "Coping with human-driven environmental stress: Perspective of an African Great Lakes fish." Thursday, April 24, 2014, 7:00 pm. LEC room 155.
  
  
• 2014 Photo Contest entires due: Friday, September 26, 2014. Click here for details and instructions. 

• Lake Erie’s ice cover studied for clues to weather patterns; LEC Environmental Sensor Network contributes important data, Toledo Blade, 2/9/14.
  
  
• Monitoring the health of a great lake -- NSF research spotlight on our Environmental Sensor Network
  
  
• City of Oregon partners with UT for storm water treatment, WTOL 11 report, 11/13/13
  
  
• Toxic algae outbreak in 2013 fooled U.S. experts -- bloom not typical, Toledo Blade, 11/9/2013
  
  
• Lake Erie Center FY 2012-2013 Annual Report available for download (PDF).
  
  
• Lake Erie algal bloom intensifying, ABC 13 Toledo report, with Dr. Tom Bridgeman.
  
  
• Asian carp genetic material found in Maumee River, NBC 24 Toledo report with Dr. Carol Stepien and Ph.D. student Carson Prichard.
  

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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