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Extension Educator Shares Expertise in Article about Microplastics in Lake Erie
data to determine how well the Cleveland Water Department and others who rely on Lake Erie for their ... in Lake County, recently shared some of her expertise about microplastics in a news article. ... Microplastics are the size of a sesame seed or smaller can be found in water, on land, and in the air. A grant ...
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Ohio State Economists to Hold Water Quality Discussion During 2013 Farm Science Review
agricultural nutrient management in Ohio with the goal of decreasing nutrient runoff into Ohio’s water ... Erie basin also boasts the largest percentage of agricultural land in the Great Lakes region.” Nutrient ... 2011.” Ward, who focuses on farm management, will discuss the management of fertilizer and water quality ...
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New Research from Professor Irwin Offers Analysis of the Interaction between Humans and Ecosystem Thresholds
examining the effect of policies on agricultural land management practices and Lake Erie water quality ... kills, are common in Lake Erie in the summer months. They are the result of a gradual build-up of ... feedback: amenity-led growth that responds to changes in water quality. The lake ecosystem in the study was ...
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New Ohio Sea Grant Project Helps Determine Lake Erie's Value to Its Residents
https://aede.osu.edu/news/new-ohio-sea-grant-project-helps-determine-lake-eries-value-its-residents
farmers’ best management practices in the watershed affect water quality in Lake Erie, and how people’s ... reduced or eliminated. Irwin and Zhang will specifically look at three services Lake Erie provides: water ... help policy makers decide which conservation practices will raise the value of the Lake Erie ecosystem ...
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Zhang Named a 2014 Ohio State Presidential Fellow
https://aede.osu.edu/news/zhang-named-2014-ohio-state-presidential-fellow
funding to focus on his dissertation, “Improving the Sustainability of the Lake Erie Region: Linking ... Agricultural Land Management and Lake Ecosystem Services.” For his dissertation, he is currently working with ... impacts the incidence, intensity and extent of harmful algal blooms and downstream Lake Erie ecosystem ...
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Congrats to Ohio Sea Grant for Recent Conneaut Port Authority Clean Marina Certification
result of intensive work to implement environmental best management practices to improve air and water ... Sea Grant college program, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Office of Coastal Management, the ... Ohio Department of Natural Division of Parks and Watercraft, and the Lake Erie Marine Trade ...
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Research from Professor Elena Irwin, Professor Mark Partridge, AEDE Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy, and AEDE alumnus Heather Stephens, PhD, profiled in Twine Line, a magazine of The Ohio Sea Grant College Program
Premium: Highly Educated Buyers Willing to Pay to Live Close to Lake Erie”, focuses on an analysis of two ... Lake Erie and the Great Lakes. It is part of the NOAA Sea Grant College Program (NOAA grant NA16RG2252, ... decades of data by the AEDE team, which enabled them to learn more about how Lake Erie and the other Great ...
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Nutrient Management Plan Development Program
https://lucas.osu.edu/events/nutrient-management-plan-development-program
farmers in developing free Nutrient Management Plans (NMP) in the Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) of Ohio. ... The Ohio State University Extension has four Nutrient Management Plan Writers working to assist ... Lake Erie Basin on select days this winter to work with you on preparing a free NMP or CNMP; dates, ...
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Algal Blooms 101
https://aede.osu.edu/news/algal-blooms-101
The harmful algal blooms that manifest on Lake Erie in the summer can be as murky a concept to ... courses and wastewater treatment plants also contribute phosphorous to runoff that ends up in Lake Erie ... through eastern Indiana and western Ohio and then feeds into Lake Erie near Toledo. Blooms are running ...
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Reducing Sediment Loading in Lake Erie by Identifying Legal and Policy Options for Improved Agricultural Drainage Ditches
As primary conveyors of water in the Lake Erie watershed, agricultural drainage ditches play ... a role in the identified problem of high levels of agricultural sediment loading in Lake Erie. However, ... ditches, sediment loading, and other water quality concerns. Recommendations in this report focus on ...