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Ohio State Making Strides in Working to Improve Water Quality
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ohio-state-making-strides-in-working-improve-water-quality
water resources and promote harmful algal blooms. Major water quality problems have occurred in Lake ... Its goal is to ensure safe drinking water while maintaining an economically productive agricultural ... ecosystems, harmful organisms in the form of algal blooms have also been present. The Nutrient Stewardship for ...
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Directors of Three State Agencies to Speak on Nutrient Runoff, Water Quality at Ohio State Oct. 1; Register by Sept. 30
“Nutrient runoff and resulting harmful algal blooms continue to limit the use of lakes and streams across ... Ohio, including Lake Erie, for fishing, boating, swimming and now even for drinking water,” said the ... the environment will come together for a panel discussion on nutrient runoff and water quality hosted ...
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Researchers: Toledo Water Crisis Impacted Perceptions of Lake Erie Algae Causes
Toledo municipal water supply due to the presence of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, the source of the ... harmful algal blooms. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation through a program that ... a half million Toledo residents were ordered to not drink, boil and in some cases bathe in water from the ...
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Ohio State Report Evaluates Options for Reducing Lake Erie’s Harmful Algal Blooms
the most effective approaches to combat algal blooms. Just as your local news uses models to forecast ... algal blooms in Lake Erie. In 2012, the United States and Canada set the goal of reducing phosphorus ... Education’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative, used five watershed models to help researchers determine ...
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Nutrient Management Field Days Set for Northwest, Western Ohio
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/nutrient-management-field-days-set-for-northwest-western-ohio
costs, raise profits and limit water quality threats such as harmful algal blooms. OSU Extension is the ... that affect water quality.” Harmful algal blooms, for instance, are partly caused by the runoff of ... Learn all about the ‘4 Rs’ Participants at both events, which will have similar agendas, will learn “how ...
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Experts: Smaller Algal Bloom Predicted For Western Lake Erie
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/experts-smaller-algal-bloom-predicted-for-western-lake-erie
Jill Jentes Banicki Tracy Turner COLUMBUS, Ohio – Harmful algal blooms are expected to be lower ... record-setting one experienced last year during the harmful algal bloom season, the agency said July 7. The ... Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative. The effort seeks to continue to analyze management plans with ...
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Four CFAES Researchers Funded in State’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative
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 ... universities across the state through 97 awards to address critical algal bloom knowledge gaps identified by ...
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On-Field Ohio: Rewriting Ohio’s Phosphorus Risk Index to Keep Nutrients and Water on Fields
in the degradation of Ohio fresh surface water and is a major contributor to harmful algal blooms ... is a major contributor to harmful algal blooms. Increased risk of phosphorus transport into surface ... phosphorus runoff into Ohio waters harms the state’s economy in terms of fishing, recreation and drinking ...
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Dean Announces $1 Million Water Quality Initiative
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/dean-announces-1-million-water-quality-initiative
Review. Called Field to Faucet, the initiative will seek end-to-end solutions to hazardous algal blooms ... drinking water across Ohio. “Ohio State University, with its comprehensive capacity, is well positioned to ... Environmental Sciences (CFAES) announced a wide-ranging water quality initiative today at the Farm Science ...
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Fertilizer applied years ago still affects Lake Erie
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/fertilizer-applied-years-ago-still-affects-lake-erie
harmful algal blooms plaguing the lake. “Phosphorus was already in fields, ditches, rivers, and ... phosphorus water quality monitoring effort. Given how much rain the state received last year, particularly in ... Ag Production Year and Lake Erie Harmful Algal Blooms?” will be given with Laura Johnson, director of ...