What’s being done to keep you safe from Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms? Hear from some of the people doing the work in the video above. It’s new from Ohio Sea Grant.
Month: August 2018
Algal bloom conference in Toledo
Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program hosts the third annual Understanding Algal Blooms: State of the Science Conference — featuring scientists’ latest findings about algal blooms, their causes and the best ways to prevent them — on Sept. 13 in Toledo. Experts from CFAES will be among the dozen or so speakers. Continue reading Algal bloom conference in Toledo
Tree pests: Which ones should you worry about?
CFAES’s Ohio Woodland Stewards Program presents Common and Uncommon Woodland Pests from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 17 at Ohio State’s Mansfield campus. It’s a workshop on two kinds of forest bugs and diseases: ones you probably don’t have to worry about, and ones you do. It’s all aimed at helping you keep your trees healthy.
Registration is $35, includes lunch and materials, and is needed by Aug. 10.
Get details. (Photo: Gypsy moth larva, one of the latter kind of buggers, by John Ghent, Bugwood.org.)
Algal blooms: The ABCs of HABs
What are harmful algal blooms, or HABs? What do they do to Lake Erie? Learn the basics in the short video above from Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program.
Catch this lecture
Stone Lab’s 2018 summer guest lecture series wraps up at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2, with “Fish Management in the 21st Century” by Rich Carter, executive administrator of the Fish Management Group in the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Wildlife; and a research brief called “Invasive Species Management and Research: Are We Working at the Same Scales?” by University of Toledo ecology professor Jonathan Bossenbroek.
Admission is free and open to the public. Learn more about the program and how to attend. You also can watch online.
Stone Lab, part of CFAES, is located at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie. (Photo: Stone Lab Lake Erie sport fishing workshop, 2016, Tory Gabriel, Ohio Sea Grant, via Flickr.)
A Day in the Woods to improve your woods
The next program in the A Day in the Woods series, “An Introduction to Woodland Stewardship Opportunities,” is set for 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Aug. 10 in southeast Ohio’s Vinton Furnace State Forest. The focus: Techniques and resources for improving your woodland resources. Registration is $12. Learn more (scroll down). CFAES’s OSU Extension outreach arm is one of the co-sponsors of the series. (Photo: Getty Images.)
