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Water Quality
https://oardc.osu.edu/impacts/water-quality
algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other bodies of water in recent years. Researchers at The Ohio State ... University are working to solve this problem and improve Ohio’s water quality by helping farmers continue to ... achieve high levels of productivity while reducing input usage and cost. The key is to keep more ...
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Do algae affect what fish see? Science angles for answers
how that ability is influenced by changes in water clarity. They hope the research will help Lake ... some way by changes to the visual environment that happen with the algal blooms in the late summer and ... Researchers from CFAES are studying how well fish can see both prey and predators underwater, and ...
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Understanding Algal Blooms: State of the Science Conference
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/understanding-algal-blooms-state-science-conference
prevent and predict harmful algal blooms and how to remove their toxins from drinking water. Hosted by ... water. The blooms can produce dangerous toxins, such as microcystin. Toledo residents lost access to ... drinking water for two days in August 2014 due to high microcystin levels. Presenters will focus on how to ...
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A Water Luncheon Seminar
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/water-luncheon-seminar
cyanobacteria, which are supposed to give water treatment plant operators an early warming of blooms. However, ... This allows the captains to answer questions like “How bad is the bloom this year?” Another monitoring ... Anabaena) and we trying to understand why the bloom occurs in relatively nutrient-poor water. On the toxin ...
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How to grow grass even greener
lawn care and landscape professionals. It featured new ways to keep things green — in more ways than ... for people, water, bees Included in the program were talks on how to protect honey bees, how to help ... bees by growing certain landscape plants, and how to keep pesticide and fertilizer granules from ...
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Seeing (and using) the good in manure and keeping our water clean, too
algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other water bodies. The issue made headlines in summer 2014 when ... toxins from a western Lake Erie algal bloom caused a two-day water use ban in Toledo. Experts think such ... blooms are fueled by excess nutrients in the water, especially phosphorus from farm runoff. In response ...
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Western Nutrient Management and Placement Field Day
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/western-nutrient-management-and-placement-field-day
University Extension. Successfully doing that, he said, can lower input costs, raise profits and limit water ... quality threats such as harmful algal blooms. OSU Extension is the outreach arm of the College of Food, ... at both events, which will have similar agendas, will learn “how the ‘4R’ principles of the right ...
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Northwest Nutrient Management and Placement Field Day
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/northwest-nutrient-management-and-placement-field-day
University Extension. Successfully doing that, he said, can lower input costs, raise profits and limit water ... quality threats such as harmful algal blooms. OSU Extension is the outreach arm of the College of Food, ... at both events, which will have similar agendas, will learn “how the ‘4R’ principles of the right ...
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Manure practices, not glamorous, can be a star for both food crops and water
important.”—David White Keeping phosphorus, algae out of water Manure Science Review featured, for example, ... fertilizer and manure is a cause of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other water bodies. Lake ... technologies that can help keep rivers, lakes and streams clean, said David White, executive director of the ...
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Most farmers willing to take steps to protect water, says study done near lake Erie
profits as well as how it will impact local water quality,” said Wilson, associate professor in the School ... attitudes toward taking action.”—Robyn Wilson Follow 4Rs to keep water clean Wilson’s findings come from ... example, include soil testing to see which nutrients are needed and how much to apply, and applying ...