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A pH sensor originally developed by CFAES scientists for the food industry, designed to measure the acidity of food processed under high pressure, may end up serving double duty — by measuring the pH of water deep in the ocean, a place under pressure as well (literally, due simply to the weight of the water; figuratively, due to carbon dioxide-fueled ocean acidification). Read the story.
CFAES’s Bob Gates recently completed a summer faculty fellowship with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Based in the agency’s East Lansing, Michigan, field office, he focused on wetland conservation during the program’s six weeks. An associate professor of wildlife ecology, he’s pictured, left, with Denny Albert of USFWS in a marsh on northern Lake Michigan. Read the story. (Photo: Greg Soulliere, USFWS.)
CFAES Dean Bruce McPheron, Ohio State President Michael V. Drake and others, speaking Sept. 16 at Farm Science Review, talk about Ohio State’s new $1 million Field to Faucet water quality initiative. Watch (6:02). Previous related post.
Wellesley College’s Nicholas Rodenhouse presents “How Well Do Ecosystem Characteristics Predict Bird Abundance at the Landscape Spatial Scale?” in the School of Environment and Natural Resources’ seminar series, 4-5:15 p.m., Sept. 18. Details. Rodenhouse is a professor of biological sciences. His research, his faculty bio says, “explores how climate change affects forest songbirds and the environments in which they live.” (Photo: Wellesley College.)
The next webinar by Ohio State’s Climate Change Outreach Team features Doug Kluck and Deke Arndt, both of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center. The center is the world’s largest archive of weather and climate data. Their talk, “NOAA Climate Resources,” noon to 1 p.m., Sept. 25, will cover how NOAA monitors climate change and how citizens can tap into the agency’s information.
Fish species native to a major Arizona watershed may lose access to key parts of their habitat by 2050 as global warming reduces surface water flow, suggests new research led by CFAES scientist Kristin Jaeger. Read the story. (Photo: Speckled dace, a species of the study’s watershed, by Roger Tabor, USFWS.)
Fire plays a role in the ecology of most forests. But what does it do to the wildlife that lives there? National Geographic’s Daily News recently talked to CFAES scientist Mazeika Sullivan. (Photo: Terry Tompkins, USDA Forest Service.)
Jeff Reutter of Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab tells you everything you may want to know about Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms, and what we can do to stop them, in a detailed Q-and-A with Ohio State’s faculty and staff newspaper. (Photo: onCampus.)
Ohio State’s Stone Lab will host a media briefing and public webinar tomorrow, Thursday, July 10, to explain NOAA’s Seasonal Forecast of Harmful Algal Blooms for Lake Erie. Speaking at both events will be experts and elected officials.
The media briefing starts at 10 a.m. Included will be lab demonstrations and on-the-water field experience. Get details here. Note: Register to attend by 3 p.m. today, July 9. Call or e-mail Jill Jentes, 614-937-0072, jentes.1@osu.edu.
The webinar goes from 2-4 p.m. To register, go here and scroll down.
Lake Erie’s recurring summer algal blooms threaten fishing, swimming, boating and tourism on the lake, plus drinking water and the health of the lake’s ecosystems.
There’s money in those maple leafs leaves, says a story today in The Globe and Mail. Toronto’s 10 million trees are worth about $7 billion Canadian ($6.4 billion U.S.), and their benefits — including reducing stormwater runoff and lowering summer cooling bills — far outweigh their costs. Here’s how to put a dollar (U.S.) on your own trees’ benefits. (Photo: Sugar maple by Paul Wray, Iowa State University, Bugwood.org.)