Faculty Pursuits: June 2024

Recently Dr. Laura Johnson (National Center for Water Quality Research) and Dr. Doug Kane (Biology and Environmental Science and NCWQR) presented at two water conferences. Laura presented on Assessing the Field and Watershed Scale Impacts of Conservation Practices in the Western Lake Erie Basin Using a Pilot Watershed Approach at the Society for Freshwater Science in Philadelphia.

Doug presented on Salinization of Ohio Rivers: More Chloride, More Problems at the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) meeting in Madison, Wisconsin with Laura and Dr. Nate Manning (NCWQR) as co-authors. Laura was also co-author on four other presentations at the ASLO meeting with co-authors from a variety of institutions. Nate was co-author on one of these presentations as well.

For more information here.

Additionally, Laura, Nate and Doug were co-guest editors for a special issue of Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management on Ecology of Lake Erie: Nutrients, Microbes, Algae, and Dreissenid Mussels.

Besides authoring a synthesis paper for the issue with co-authors from the United States and Canada, Laura and Nate authored a paper on Drivers of Annual Suspended Sediment and Nutrient Yields in Tributaries to Lake Erie with co-authors of the National Center for Water Quality Research.

Laura was also co-author on Nutrient and Environmental Factors Regulating Western Lake Erie Cyanobacterial Blooms with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

For more information on this special issue here.

Finally, Doug conducted two educational programs at Kelleys Island. On Memorial Day weekend, with the assistance of the Kelleys Island Field Station, he showed campers in the Kelleys Island State Park plankton samples from Lake Erie under a microscope and discussed the importance of plankton to the food web and to people. On the Summer Solstice, he returned to Kelleys Island and presented a lecture to the Kelleys Island Audubon Club on Spotted Lanternfly as a Threat to Island Forests and Grapes.