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  1. Northwest Nutrient Management and Placement Field Day

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/northwest-nutrient-management-and-placement-field-day

    have plagued western Lake Erie, Grand Lake St. Marys and other bodies of water. In Custar July 28 The  ... quality threats such as harmful algal blooms. OSU Extension is the outreach arm of the  College of Food, ... algal blooms, for instance, are partly caused by the runoff of phosphorus. In recent years, such blooms ...

  2. 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 ... Experts say soluble phosphorus runoff from farms is one of several contributors to the harmful ...

  3. A Water Luncheon Seminar

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/water-luncheon-seminar

    University and Ohio Sea Grant) aimed at monitoring blooms in Lake Erie and determining drivers of bloom ... Harmful algal bloom research at Stone Lab: Monitoring blooms and determining drivers of toxin ... western basin and Planktothrix blooms in Sandusky Bay. Results indicate that microcystin production is ...

  4. Manure practices, not glamorous, can be a star for both food crops and water

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/september-october-2014/manure-practices-not-glamorous-can-be-star

    fertilizer and manure is a cause of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other water bodies. Lake ... Erie will again have — or, at this writing, may have already had — a significant harmful algal bloom ... technologies that can help keep rivers, lakes and streams clean, said David White, executive director of the ...

  5. Field to Faucet making strides in improving Ohio’s water quality

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/january-february-2016/field-faucet-making-strides-improving-ohio

    Jay Martin talks about Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms and the Field to Faucet program ’s efforts to ... monitor harmful algal blooms in lakes and farm ponds. Conducting edge-of-field research that will compare ... put $1 million in college funding toward the effort after harmful algal blooms caused dangerous ...

  6. Study: Spreading gypsum on farms can help keep water clean, not green

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/november-december-2014/study-spreading-gypsum-farms-can-help-keep

    of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other lakes. Gypsum, when spread on a farm field, ... Dick’s research is taking place on farms in the Maumee River watershed, Lake Erie’s largest tributary, ... and around Grand Lake St. Marys, which also has suffered from the blooms. To contact the scientist: ...

  7. Good news: Ohio’s soil phosphorus levels are trending down

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/good-news-ohio%E2%80%99s-soil-phosphorus-levels-trending-down

    western Lake Erie and other water bodies. To contact the scientist: Elizabeth Dayton at dayton.15@osu.edu. ... (go.osu.edu/Bawz). Phosphorus runoff from farm fields is one of the causes of the harmful algal blooms plaguing ... which came through the college’s Field to Faucet initiative, represent good news for Ohioans concerned ...

  8. Martin to lead Field to Faucet water program, has ‘ability to bring people together’

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/july-august-2015/martin-lead-field-faucet-water-program-has-

    quality program. A response to last summer’s Toledo water crisis and the ongoing harmful algal bloom ... problems in Lake Erie and other lakes, the new program aims to ensure safe drinking water for all Ohioans ... Engineering. For the past 10 years, he has focused his research on the Lake Erie basin in concert with ...

  9. Nutrient Management Plan Development Program

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/NutrientManagementPlanDevelopmentProgram

    project is targeted to the Western Lake Erie Watershed of Ohio working directly with two constituent ... individuals who farm in the Western Lake Erie Basin. The Nutrient Management Plan Writers are a team working ... to assist farmers in developing Nutrient Management Plans (NMP) in the Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) ...

  10. Important Issues in Water Quality and Nutrient Placement Conference

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/important-issues-water-quality-and-nutrient-placement-conference

    a hot topic because seldom does a day go by without a news article on water issues such as algal blooms ... in Lake Erie or contaminated drinking water.” Topics to be discussed include: ·         “Healthy ... Extension, the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and industry experts in agriculture, ...

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