PURSUITS: Week of May 9, 2016
Dr. Rem Confesor (NCWQR) is a co-PI and the lead technical scientist of the newly funded project Motivating Farmers to Move the Needle on Nutrient and Sediment Loss Reduction with Model-at-the-Farm, Measure-at-the-Watershed Pay-for-Performance Conservation, led by Winrock International and funded by the U.S. EPA through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). This is a three-year project with a total funding of $500,000 and the project location is the Old Woman Creek watershed, Ohio. The project's anticipated outcome includes: 1) Increased farmer understanding of nutrient and sediment loss, their impacts on water quality and cost-effective ways to reduce losses, 2) Widespread adoption of effective and cost-effective conservation actions across the watershed, 3) Demonstration of watershed-level response to dramatic increase in conservation practices, and ultimately, 4) a reduction in the frequency of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Lake Erie after the successful replication of this innovative approach in 15 watersheds in the Lake Erie Basin.
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Dr. David Bush (anthropology) organized and managed the exhibit tables on Johnson's Island for the Mansfield Ohio Civil War Show held April 29-May 1. Helping Dave were 'Berg anthropology alumni Jaime Graham and Brandi Oswald. The exhibit focused on the preservation of cultural materials.