A May 2 story by Cleveland.com’s Peter Krouse featured the Erie Hack Water Innovation Summit in Cleveland. Jeff Reutter, special adviser to and former director of Ohio State’s Lake Erie-serving Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab programs, was interviewed for the story.
The Erie Hack competition, according to its website, “unites coders, developers, engineers, and water experts to generate enduring solutions to Lake Erie’s biggest challenges.”
Look for new players like riprap, blazing star and willow fascines in Ohio State’s Gwynne Conservation Area.
The nearly 70-acre facility, part of CFAES’s Farm Science Review site at the Molly Caren Agricultural Center in London, has started two new projects — one to diversify its prairie plantings; the other, to protect the banks of Deer Creek, which flows through the grounds. Continue reading
If you’re seeking more berries from your strawberry plants or want to know how to start growing them, a May 25 CFAES field night could be where your questions get answered. And also there’s a robot.
Tal Shutkin of Shaker Heights, Ohio, pictured, a sophomore in CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources, has been named a 2017 Udall Scholar.
Researchers funded by Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program are developing a way to remove contaminants from Lake Erie’s tributaries using chemical agents and ultrasound …
Put 100 teenagers in the woods for a week, in a place with spotty cellphone service, and you’d think they’d be bored.
But teach them about the nature there, allow time for fishing and swimming, offer the occasional climb up a 10-story oak tree, and “the kids really seem to love it,” said CFAES’s Marne Titchenell, co-director of the Ohio Forestry Association’s 66th annual Forestry and Wildlife Conservation Camp.