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  1. 'We are continuing to look for best management practices' to improve water quality

    https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/we-are-continuing-look-for-best-management-practices-improve-water-quality

    With harmful algal blooms forecast to have increased this summer in western Lake Erie, experts ... have been an issue in Lake Erie since the 1960s. The blooms, which are harmful to wildlife and humans, ... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  in July predicted  that the 2013 western Lake Erie harmful ...

  2. What Will We Find in Lake Erie This Summer?

    https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/what-will-we-find-in-lake-erie-summer

    seasonal harmful algal bloom (HAB) forecast for the Great Lakes. Led by regional and national experts, the ... the history of this work on Lake Erie. An afternoon webinar will allow the public to participate ... at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie. Media members should contact Ohio Sea Grant's Jill Jentes Banicki at  ...

  3. Environmental Professionals Network

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/events

    Chesapeake Bay, Grand Lake St. Marys, and the City of Columbus. Efforts to monitor harmful blooms, keep ... mitigate harmful algal blooms will be addressed by the panel. ... For the first time in our state’s history the open waters of western Lake Erie have been deemed ...

  4. Short and Long Term Strategies to Address Harmful Algal Blooms in Ohio Lakes

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/best-practices/short-and-long-term-strategies-address-harmful-algal-blooms-ohio-lakes

    lakes that can lead to harmful algal blooms. Mr. Fletcher will share lessons learned from alum treatment ... options. Mr. Fletcher will bring us up-to-date on the current status of harmful algal blooms in Ohio's ... Speaker: Scott Fletcher, Deputy Chief for Region Services for the Ohio State Parks Harmful algal ...

  5. New lab to help fight the (algae-fueled) battle of Lake Erie

    https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/new-lab-help-fight-the-algae-fueled-battle-lake-erie

    harmful algal bloom problem is not gone, and reducing phosphorus loading is as important as ever, so being ... and to harmful algal blooms, or HABs, which can threaten the health of people and animals.  ... coordinator and the lab's primary technician. "Research in the new lab will address Lake Erie ...

  6. Harmful Algal Blooms

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/watershed-management/harmful-algal-blooms

    Resources Council) about a new report released by OEPA: Harmful Algal Bloom Response Strategy. Gail explains ... up-to-date information on harmful algal blooms, go to www.epa.state.oh.us/dsw/HAB.aspx Download interview ... monitoring, standards for algal toxins for public beaches and drinking water, and requirements for public ...

  7. A better tool in the toolbox: New project will bolster Ohio's Phosphorus Risk Index

    https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/better-tool-in-the-toolbox-new-project-will-bolster-ohios-phosphorus-risk-index

    Grand Lake St. Marys has lost an estimated $60-80 million in tourism due to harmful algae blooms ... . And in 2011, algae blooms covered 990 square miles of Lake Erie's surface area, the largest in ... the lake's history. Phosphorus is the pollutant most often implicated in the degradation of ...

  8. Phosphorous

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1538

    Health- Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) USEPA- Nutrient Pollution ATSDR- Toxic Substances Portal- White ... Blue-Green Algae/Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Bloom (HABs) ODH Health Assessment Fact Sheet- Pond Water- ... cause algae to grow faster than ecosystems can handle creating an algal bloom. Phosphorous is also used ...

  9. OSU Climate Change Webinar

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/events/osu-climate-change-webinar

    Severe weather has plagued all parts of the US, including the Great Lakes, over the past decade, ... a Warming World Martin Hoerling, Meteorologist, NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory Climate Predictions ... and Connections to Weather Barbara Mayes Boustead, Meteorologist, NOAA National Weather Service ...

  10. WMAO Water Luncheon Seminar; Algae, Rmote Sensing, and Lake Erie

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/events/wmao-water-luncheon-seminar-algae-rmote-sensing-and-lake-erie

    Bloom: Algae, Remote Sensing, and Lake Erie" at the Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland ...

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