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  1. Report Shows How to Say Goodbye to Harmful Algal Blooms

    https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/report-shows-how-say-goodbye-harmful-algal-blooms

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — Harmful algal blooms dangerous to human health and the Lake Erie ecosystem — such ... Lake Erie Basin, where most of the dangerous algal blooms occur. Information from the study could ... a drop of this magnitude would keep algal blooms at safe levels for people and the lake. “With aggressive ...

  2. Jay Martin to Lead Field to Faucet and Global Water Initiative

    https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/jay-martin-lead-field-faucet-and-global-water-initiative

    COLUMBUS, Ohio – While some would say people are the problem behind Lake Erie’s harmful algal ... Engineering. For the past 10 years, he has focused on the Lake Erie basin, again in concert with researchers ... Environmental Sciences, which put $1 million toward the effort after dangerous microcystin levels in Lake Erie ...

  3. New App Helps Farmers Know When to Spray or Spread

    https://ati.osu.edu/new-app-helps-farmers-know-when-spray-or-spread

    the time. For example, the Western Lake Erie Basin Partnership sets laws that prohibit farmers from ... Erie, you have a greater potential for harmful algal blooms,” Wilson said. “This is detrimental to the ... fertilizer and pesticide is actually acting upon their crops, then it’s difficult to predict growth. The app ...

  4. Cover Crops Can Improve Soil Health, Water Quality and Yields

    https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/cover-crops-can-improve-soil-health-water-quality-and-yields

    is a cause of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other lakes. In August, toxins from ... a bloom in western Lake Erie led to a two-day drinking water ban in Toledo. “The use of cover crops and ... nutrients out of surface water including Lake Erie, Grand Lake St. Marys and Buckeye Lake will find that ...

  5. Testing a new way to kill harmful algal blooms

    https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/testing-new-way-kill-harmful-algal-blooms

    a new technique for killing off harmful algal blooms in Ohio’s streams and lakes.  The technology being ... blooms on entire lakes as large as Lake Erie, she said. But the technology could potentially be used to ... treat streams entering those lakes, including Lake Erie.  “The sooner you can start cleaning the water ...

  6. OARDC annual conference spotlights water quality

    https://alumni.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/newsletter/cfaes-connect/may-2015/cfaes-news/oardc-annual-conference-spotlights-water-quality

    on “Field to Faucet: Impacts of Phosphorus and Steps Forward in the Lake Erie Basin”; and CFAES Dean ... what’s coming in from the rivers, we can have an impact and lessen algal blooms,” said Martin, who is ... production while improving water quality in Lake Erie.” Watch: CFAES Dean Bruce McPheron speaks April 16 at ...

  7. Updating Ohio's Phosphorus Risk Index Is Generating Positive Initial Results

    https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/updating-ohios-phosphorus-risk-index-generating-positive-initial-results

    Scioto, Grand Lake St. Marys and Western Lake Erie Basin watersheds. To date, the project has collected ... in the degradation of Ohio surface water and contributes to harmful algal blooms. “Our intention is ...

  8. More Than 10,000 Ohio Farmers Have Received Water Quality Training

    https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/more-10000-ohio-farmers-have-received-water-quality-training

    to the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other bodies of water in recent years. “Since we ... on the link between phosphorus, harmful algal blooms and agriculture; best management practices for ... nearby and downstream water resources. Experts say soluble phosphorus runoff from farms is a contributor ...

  9. News and Events

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    Gap in the Western Lake Erie Basin Copy:  This $749,939 award from USDA's National Institute of ... constraints to adoption in the Western Lake Erie basin. Button context:  NIFA page " ... Using Nanobubbles to Kill Harmful Algal Blooms Copy:  The technology being tested by CFAES researchers ...

  10. Ohio Sea Grant director Reutter retires after 42 years of service

    https://alumni.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/newsletter/cfaes-connect/april-2015/cfaes-news/ohio-sea-grant-director-reutter-retires-after-42

    Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory, Ohio State’s island campus on Lake Erie, said a heartfelt ... Power Station near Port Clinton on Lake Erie. In 1977, he wrote the successful grant proposal that ...

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