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  1. Experts to Review State of the Science for Harmful Algal Blooms

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/experts-review-state-the-science-for-harmful-algal-blooms

    Presenters will focus on how to prevent and predict harmful algal blooms and how to remove their toxins from ... effort. LaBarge is working with about 100 farmers representing 5,000 acres in the Western Lake Erie Basin ... Suzanne Steel TOLEDO, Ohio – Fourteen leaders in the fight against harmful algal blooms will ...

  2. Ohio State Water Experts to Speak to Columbus Metropolitan Club June 3

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ohio-state-water-experts-speak-columbus-metropolitan-club-june-3

    a harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie caused a two-day water use ban in Toledo. Scientists say phosphorus from ... Toledo crisis and is a widely quoted expert on such topics as harmful algal blooms and phosphorus ... farm fertilizer runoff is a cause of such blooms, which have plagued western Ohio’s Grand Lake St. ...

  3. Lake Erie Cyanobacteria Bloom- A Summary of the 2016 Season

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2017-2/lake-erie-cyanobacteria-bloom-summary-2016-season

    criteria for the Lake Erie (Annex 4, 2015). References: Stumpf, R, (et.al). Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake ... Cyanobacteria growth in the Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) has been a concern closely monitored ... their property. Target Phosphorus Reductions for the Western Lake Erie Basin Target loading criteria ...

  4. Oct. 14: How to Stop Algal Blooms, Keep Drinking Water Safe

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/oct-14-how-stop-algal-blooms-keep-drinking-water-safe

    farmland 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 event’s first panel will ... Nature Conservancy’s Western Lake Erie Basin Project. President Obama honored Vollmer-Sanders in March ...

  5. On-Field Ohio: Rewriting Ohio’s Phosphorus Risk Index to Keep Nutrients and Water on Fields

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/field-ohio-rewriting-ohio%E2%80%99s-phosphorus-risk-index-keep-nutrients-and-water-fields

    Marys and Western Lake Erie Basin watersheds, the latter two being the most problematic watersheds, she ... St. Marys and the Western Lake Erie Basin, which are the two most problematic watersheds in heavy ... in the degradation of Ohio fresh surface water and is a major contributor to harmful algal blooms ...

  6. Revised Phosphorus Index Can Help Curb Agricultural Runoff

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/revised-phosphorus-index-can-help-curb-agricultural-runoff

    a severe bloom in western Lake Erie shut down Toledo’s drinking water supply for two days. The On-Field ... algal blooms, experts say. The revised phosphorus risk index can help Ohio farmers better work toward ... meeting the 40 percent phosphorus reduction target in the Western Lake Erie Basin, said Dayton, a soil ...

  7. Panel to Discuss Manure Storage Options, Benefits to Farms and Water

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/panel-discuss-manure-storage-options-benefits-farms-and-water

    a cause of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other lakes and streams. Lake Erie will again ... Administration’s forecast released July 10. But the predicted bloom will be smaller than last year’s and far less ... have a significant harmful algal bloom this summer, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

  8. Four CFAES Researchers Funded in State’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/four-cfaes-researchers-funded-in-state%E2%80%99s-harmful-algal-bloom-research-initiative

    to pressing Lake Erie issues. The Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative has been a collaborative ... Environmental Sciences (CFAES) have been awarded funding from the statewide Harmful Algal Bloom Research ... Initiative (HABRI), which seeks solutions for harmful algal blooms in Ohio. Ohio Sea Grant, on behalf of the ...

  9. Fertilizer applied years ago still affects Lake Erie

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/fertilizer-applied-years-ago-still-affects-lake-erie

    Ag Production Year and Lake Erie Harmful Algal Blooms?” will be given with Laura Johnson, director of ... , Johnson said. Last year, the severity of the Lake Erie harmful algal bloom was 7.3—more than double the ... harmful algal blooms plaguing the lake. “Phosphorus was already in fields, ditches, rivers, and ...

  10. Environmental Professionals Network

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/events

    For the first time in our state’s history the open waters of western Lake Erie have been deemed ... our state’s leading universities to help the Ohio EPA assess whether the open waters of Lake Erie met federal ... Chesapeake Bay, Grand Lake St. Marys, and the City of Columbus. Efforts to monitor harmful blooms, keep ...

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