Classes and workshops at Stone Laboratory are helping educate the next generation of Lake Erie water quality scientists, says an article in the latest issue of Ohio Sea Grant’s Twine Line newsletter.
Stone Lab, part of CFAES, is located at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie. (Photo: 2018 Introduction to Aquatic Biology course, Stone Lab, Daniel Combs, via Flickr.)
CFAES scientists led by ecological engineer Jay Martin recently teamed up with Columbus’s Indianola Informal K8 School to (1) study eco-friendly ways to manage stormwater runoff and (2) help connect students to science. Read the story.
Former Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee talks about land-grant universities (of which Ohio State is one), colleges of agriculture (such as CFAES), the importance of agriculture, research, Extension and more in an interview with Inside Higher Ed about his new co-authored book Land-Grant Universities for the Future.
Check out a recent story by Ben Gelber of Columbus TV station WCMH, which looks at an effort by Ohio State, the Hilliard school district and several conservation agencies to get high school students’ feet wet in environmental science.
The project involves, among others, members of CFAES’s TerrAqua student club and Eugene Braig, aquatic ecosystems program director, who’s interviewed briefly in the video. He’s the subject of a recent profile on our CFAES Stories website.
Second semester of a collaborative oudoor classroom to study urban ecosystems in the Hilliard City School District! https://t.co/lUS4aUWMbZ
— Ben Gelber (@BenGelberNBC4) September 30, 2018
Scientists have released the most accurate, high-resolution terrain map of Antarctica ever created, according to a recent story by Ohio State science writer Jeff Grabmeier.
CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum hosts the Whiz Bang Science Show, offering free fun for children and their families, from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9, in Wooster. (Photo: Whiz Bang Science Show.)
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
CFAES’s Stone Lab, located at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie, is offering public tours of its Gibraltar Island, Aquatic Visitors Center and South Bass Island Lighthouse at various times and days this summer and fall. Find details and the schedules.
You also can visit Sept. 8, when the lab hosts its 20th annual Friends of Stone Lab Open House.
Especially in summer, Stone Lab is home to teachers, students and scientists exploring Lake Erie, its water, and what lives in and around it. (Photo: Stone Lab open house, 2016, Frank Lichtkoppler, Ohio Sea Grant, via Flickr.)
Secrest Arboretum, part of CFAES’s Wooster campus, will host the popular Whiz Bang Science Show on Thursday, July 12, at 7 p.m. The event, starring CFAES systems engineer “Dr. Dave” Lohnes, is fun and free for kids and their families. Find out more.
Tonight in Stone Lab’s guest lecture series, Jeff Sharp, director of CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR), will present “50 Years of Environmental and Natural Resource Education at The Ohio State University: Looking to the Next 50” (he speaks in the video above); and Rachel Gabor, assistant professor with SENR, will discuss “Watersheds and Sewersheds: Identifying Controls on Water Quality in Urban Environments.” Admission is free and open to the public. Find out more.
Stone Lab, part of CFAES, is located at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie.