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Ohio Sea Grant College Program
and Stone Laboratory

Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory

Aquatic Ecology & "Dead Zone"

From the loss of the Great Black Swamp to the burning of the Cuyahoga River to the changes induced by the Clean Water Act to the recent reemergence of the "Dead Zone," the Lake Erie ecosystem is in a constant state of change. It is imperative that academia, decision makers, and resource users understand these changes as they arise, and Sea Grant research significantly impacts this understanding.

Project List

Completed: Project Completed Title: Sort Title AscendingSort Title Descending Completion: Sort Title AscendingSort Title Descending Start Date: Sort Title AscendingSort Title Descending

R/ER-072 

Started: 3/31/2007

Assessing the role of turbid river plumes in the development of Microcystis blooms in Lake Erie with molecular techniques

R/ER-073 

Started: 3/31/2007

Phylogenetic analysis and physiological characterization of photosynthetic picoplankton in Lake Erie

R/MB-003 

Started: 3/31/2007

Effects of a marine product antifoulant, zosteric acid on biofouling and biofilm development: Multilevel mechanistic study from microbial receptor to biofilm morphology

R/PS-38-PD 

Started: 7/1/2006

Evaluating PCB Transport from Contaminated Sediments During In Situ Capping

R/EM-28-PD 

Started: 4/1/2006

Using solid-phase Microextraction (SPME) fibres to model PCB bioaccumulation by zebra mussels

R/ER-071 

Started: 3/31/2006

Redfield Revisited: Addressing current perspectives on the phosphorus quotas of freshwater plankton

R/ER-77-PD Project Status R/ER-77-PD: Completed

Started: 3/1/2006, Status: Completed

Boundary Dynamics of the Hypoxic Hypolimnion of Lake Erie’s Central Basin

R/ER-76-PD Project Status R/ER-76-PD: Completed

Started: 3/1/2006, Status: Completed

Rates of Oxygen and Nutrient Exchange Between Sediments and Water in the Great Lakes

R/LR-9-PD Project Status R/LR-9-PD: Completed

Started: 4/1/2005, Status: Completed

Genetic Diversity and Divergence of Darter and Unionid Populations as Urban Ecological Indicators

R/ER-67 

Started: 3/1/2005

Field and laboratory tests of the Microbial Shunt Hypothesis of Phosphorus Availability in the Great Lakes

R/PS-36 

Started: 3/1/2005

Mercury in the Water and Phytoplankton of Western Lake Erie

R/EM-027 

Started: 9/1/2004

Large Lake Ecosystems: Modeling Interactions Among Human, Biological, and Physical Processes

R/ER-69-PD Project Status R/ER-69-PD: Completed

Started: 3/1/2004, Status: Completed

Lake Erie Watersnake Recovery Plan Implementation

R/ER-68-PD 

Started: 11/1/2003

Influence of Landscape Hierarchies on Food Web Structure in a Lower Great Lakes River System

R/ER-66-PD Project Status R/ER-66-PD: Completed

Started: 7/1/2003, Status: Completed

Development of a rapid surveillance method for annual mayfly surveys in Lake Erie