Long periods of ice and snow on a pond are hard on the bass, bluegills and other fish swimming below, sometimes even killing them. We revisit a winter 2015 article, featuring CFAES Aquatic Ecosystems Program Director Eugene Braig, that shares details — and what you can do.
Month: January 2018
Tuesday: ‘Lessons in sustainability’ from Columbus craft brewery
The next monthly Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) breakfast program, “Land Grant to Land-Grant: Lessons in Sustainability from a Brewery in Our Backyard,” will feature Columbus’s Land-Grant Brewing Company, a small urban craft brewery.
The speaker, Land-Grant sustainability manager Vincent Valentino, will share “successes, challenges and failures that the brewery has faced in its first year of pursuing sustainability,” the event description says. He’ll also “talk about their partnership with urban farmers, Columbus community groups and where they want to go next.”
The event is tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 9, from 7:15 to 9:30 a.m. on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Read more and register.
EPN is a service of CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources.
Big drop in cost of solar: Get help deciding if it’s right for your farm
An upcoming webinar series will help farmers make informed decisions on whether solar energy is a wise investment for them.
Cool place to work, 4 jobs open
Stone Lab, Ohio State’s island campus at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie, has four research aide jobs open. Two will help the lab’s research coordinator, including by collecting water samples by boat, helping run experiments and reporting data. One will run the Aquatic Visitors Center. One will work as a general research assistant, including on efforts to conserve the Lake Erie water snake.
CFAES is hiring: Water quality program manager
CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources is hiring a program manager to help develop a new Ohio Water Quality Initiative.
Water like a stone? Not exactly
“Winter means work for Lake Erie’s algae warriors,” said the headline of a Dec. 13 Toledo Blade story, which quoted, among others, Justin Chaffin, research coordinator at Ohio State’s Stone Lab, who has a partial appointment with CFAES. (Photo: Lake Erie, iStock.)