DETAILS

Dates: August 8, 2022

Meets: MT

CREDITS AVAILABLE

EPA: 15 hrs

Meet Your Instructors

Justin David Chaffin , PhD

Senior Researcher, Research Coordinator, Stone Laboratory

Dr. Rex L. Lowe

Professer Emeritus, BGSU Department of Biological Sciences

Prerequisites

Completion of 8 semester-credit hours in biological sciences or permission of instructor. Students with an interest in the Great Lakes and aquatic ecosystems. Managers or employees of public water supplies (reservoirs, lakes, and rivers). Federal, state, or city employees charged with monitoring water quality.

Description

Hands-on, lecture, laboratory and field workshop to learn collection, identification, preservation, enumeration, and control techniques and basic ecology of algae. Offered with EPA contact hours for Ohio EPA certified Drinking Water (DW) and Waste Water (WW) operators.