A clean Lake Erie is vital to Ohio’s economy, a panel including Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab Director Chris Winslow told U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio) Monday in Toledo.
Month: June 2017
June 22: Get fertilization answers, certification
You can get your crop fertilization questions answered — and your state-required fertilizer applicator certification — at a CFAES-sponsored field day on June 22 in Canfield.
June 22: Port of Cleveland sustainability leader to speak at Stone Lab
The next event in Stone Lab’s 2017 summer guest lecture series features James White, director of sustainable infrastructure programs for the Port of Cleveland. It’s this Thursday, June 22. Also speaking will be International Joint Commission environmental advisor Victor Serveiss.
The port’s “innovative, environmentally friendly” dredging solution, which White introduced, was featured recently in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Stone Lab, pictured, is Ohio State’s island campus at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie.
The event starts at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but you’ll need to pay for a ferry ride to Put-in-Bay and a water taxi ride to the lab. There’s an option to watch online. (Photo: Lisa Aurand Rice, via Flickr.)
Lake Erie algal bloom research at risk
A June 14 Great Lakes Today story by Elizabeth Miller said the proposed 2018 federal budget would “cut all federal funding for Sea Grant programs, including Ohio’s.” At risk, among other things, would be crucial health-related research on harmful algal blooms.
Miller, for example, interviewed two Ohio Sea Grant-funded researchers, Stuart Ludsin and CFAES’s Jiyoung Lee, who are trying to determine if toxins produced by harmful algal blooms can get into food — specifically, into fresh vegetables irrigated with bloom-tainted waters and fish such as walleye that swam in such waters.
Here, there be hidden jumpseed … for now
On a certain summer day in CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum — July 6 — you can learn how to spot, ID and give the heave-ho to weeds.
June 20: How to grow ‘superior quality, nutrient-dense’ organic vegetables — and also conduct on-farm soil research
Artisan Acres near Wooster is hosting the next stop in the 2017 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series. Called the On-Farm Research and Organic Vegetable Farm Tour, the event starts at 9 a.m. June 20.
Artisan Acres provides “superior quality, nutrient-dense vegetables to customers … while at the same time increasing the health of their soil by applying minerals, rotating cover crops and mulching,” the tour description says. The tour will also look at soil balancing research being done on the farm in conjunction with CFAES’s Organic Food and Farming Education and Research Program.
Get on the boat; or, water great way to spend an evening
Stone Lab, Ohio State’s water science-focused campus at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie, has announced its 2017 summer guest lecture series. Admission is free and open to the public. But you’ll probably need to pay for a short but usually pleasant ride by ferry, water taxi or both to get there.
The series starts at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 15, featuring Mark Noark and Brent Repenning of Kent, Ohio-based Davey Resource Group and a research brief by Audrey Sawyer of Ohio State’s School of Earth Sciences called “Hidden chemical exchange due to lake-groundwater interactions.”
See the series schedule. There’s also an option to watch online. (Photo: Stone Lab scene, Jill Bartolotta, via Flickr.)
Not so pretty in pink; or, ways to waylay wayward weeds
It’s pretty. And pretty hard to control. A class in CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum will help you win your war on weeds. (Photo: Canada thistle by John M. Randall, The Nature Conservancy, Bugwood.org.)
Devising climate-smart agricultural practices for the world’s dry areas
My name is Somanagouda B. Patil, and I’m an Indian citizen currently working at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas in Rabat, Morocco.
Since April, I’ve been a visiting scholar in CFAES’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center through the support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program.
Study: Where climate change is most likely to induce food violence
While climate change is expected to lead to more violence related to food scarcity, new research suggests the strength of a country’s government plays a vital role in preventing uprisings. “A capable government is even more important to keeping the peace than good weather,” said study co-author Bear Braumoeller, an associate professor of political science at Ohio State. Read the study in the Journal of Peace Research.