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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

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R/EM-027 

Started: 9/1/2004

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

R/ER-067 

Started: 3/1/2005

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

R/PS-036 Project Status R/PS-036: Completed

Started: 3/1/2005, Status: Completed

Mercury in the Water and Phytoplankton of Western Lake Erie

R/LR-009-PD Project Status R/LR-009-PD: Completed

Started: 4/1/2005, Status: Completed

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

R/ER-075-PD 

Started: 4/1/2005

Development of a MODIS Image Product for Mapping Phycocyanin Pigment in Blue-Green Algal Blooms (Toxic Algae)

R/ER-077-PD Project Status R/ER-077-PD: Completed

Started: 3/1/2006, Status: Completed

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

R/ER-076-PD Project Status R/ER-076-PD: Completed

Started: 3/1/2006, Status: Completed

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

R/ER-071 

Started: 3/31/2006

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

R/EM-028-PD 

Started: 4/1/2006

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

R/PS-038-PD 

Started: 7/1/2006

Evaluating PCB Transport from Contaminated Sediments During In Situ Capping

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/NIS-111-ST 

Started: 6/1/2007

Round Goby-Dreissenid Mussel Community Ecology in Western Lake Erie: Tenth Year of a Long-term Study

R/EM-029-PD 

Started: 1/1/2008

Improved Estimates of Sediment Oxygen Demand in Lake Erie Hypoxia Forecasting