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  1. Reduce Nutrient Runoff

    https://field2faucet.osu.edu/reduce-nutrient-runoff

    Keeping Nutrients on the Land One of the biggest contributors to harmful algal blooms (HABs) in ... the best strategies to reduce phosphorus from farm fields to improve the overall health of Lake Erie ... quality collaborations a little easier by mapping connections between groups with a stake in the Lake Erie ...

  2. Geospatial Data Warehouse For Improved Agricultural Water Quality

    https://field2faucet.osu.edu/about-us/projects/field-faucet-projects/geospatial-data-improved-water-quality

    Description Determining the cause of water quality issues in Lake Erie is a complicated business, with many ... prevent--harmful algal blooms. Full Project Information Read about the project at the Ohio Sea Grant website.   ...

  3. Prevention Of Cyanobacterial Bloom Formation Using Cyanophages

    https://field2faucet.osu.edu/about-us/projects/ohio-dept-higher-education-projects/viruses-prevent-cyanobacterial-bloom-formation

    for more than two days. Microcystins are a type of cyanobacteria produced by harmful algal blooms ... A naturally derived method to slow down the formation of harmful algal blooms and treat contaminated water. ... both lake water and water treatment plants. Ingesting water contaminated with microsystins can cause ...

  4. Efficient Lawn Care Practices to Help Protect Ohio’s Waterways

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5812

    economy, and recreation. For example, the HAB of 2014 in the Western Basin of Lake Erie resulted in ... many water resources from small streams and ponds to regional lakes, rivers, and Lake Erie. Harmful ... algal blooms (HABs) can have a significant impact on water quality, which effects human health, the ...

  5. Ohio State Making Strides in Working to Improve Water Quality

    https://field2faucet.osu.edu/news/ohio-state-making-strides-working-improve-water-quality

    algal blooms caused dangerous microcystin levels in Lake Erie and shut down Toledo’s water supply for ... water resources and promote harmful algal blooms. Major water quality problems have occurred in Lake ... Erie, Grand Lake St. Marys and other Ohio water resources in recent years. Within these aquatic ...

  6. Evaluation Of Cyanobacteria And Their Toxins In A Two-Staged Model Of Hepatocarcinogenesis

    https://field2faucet.osu.edu/about-us/projects/ohio-dept-higher-education-projects/role-cyanobacteria-liver-cancer

    Illnesses caused by exposure to cyanobacterial toxins – which come from hazardous algal blooms in lakes ... Do algal blooms lead to cancer? Principal Investigator Christopher Weghorst, Ohio State University ... Description Research investigates the role of the algal toxin microcystin in the development of liver cancer ...

  7. Waiting for a Break

    https://advancement.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/newsletter/cfaes-connect/december-2018/waiting-break

    for Lake Erie's health.  With the help of scientists at Stone Laboratory, Julie Christensen place ... seven cameras to livestream footage of the lake at points on South Bass and Gibraltar Island.  The ... the importance of our connection with the Great Lakes.  Christensen shared that the while working on ...

  8. Events Calendar

    https://advancement.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/newsletter/cfaes-connect/august-2018/events-calendar

    mitigate harmful algal blooms on Lake Erie, Chesapeake Bay, Grand Lake St. Marys, Sandusky Bay, and within ... waters of western Lake Erie have been deemed impaired by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.   Come ... been curious about the Lake Erie science that takes place at Stone Lab? Do you want to take a peek ...

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

    https://field2faucet.osu.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 ...

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

    https://field2faucet.osu.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 ...

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