NCWRQ team shares research at international Great Lakes conference

The team from Heidelberg’s National Center for Water Quality Research had a key role in sharing research at the 67th annual Great Lakes Research Conference in Windsor, Canada, last week.

At the conference, NCWQR Director Laura Johnson, Dr. Nate Manning and Colleen Cosgrove organized a special session titled All Tributaries Great and Small. During the session, Laura presented research into patterns in watershed yields from Lake Erie tributaries, while Nate presented on using Hysteresis in water quality data to understand runoff processes. Colleen also shared her recent work on load estimation methods.

The NCWQR team was excited to have ‘Berg rising senior Kelly Peterson – the Baker Summer Scholars Program participant last summer – join them at the conference. Kelly, an Environmental Science major, gave a presentation on soil phosphorus sorption in a special session on H2Ohio Wetlands. Additionally, ’24 grad Haley Hoehn shared her findings on wetland algal communities through a poster presentation.

The conference drew researchers from around the world to share scientific research centered around the theme Shared Lakes: One Water, One Health. Sessions offered a unique opportunity for both the science and local communities to share about the health of the Great Lakes and highlight the intersections between environmental and public health in the context of large lakes, often shared across borders, and the communities impacted by them.