PUT-IN-BAY, OHIO – Each Thursday in June and July, Stone Lab and Ohio Sea Grant will host guest speakers during its summer college course season. Starting Thursday, June 5, the public can join Stone Lab for weekly webinar presentations, which will be held from 7-8 p.m. on Thursdays.
Topics will range from fish and wildlife ecology, natural history, and management of Lake Erie to natural resource policy issues relevant to coastal environments.
Audience members, including those joining online, will be able to ask the speaker questions at the end of the presentation.
Presentations will be recorded and made available for free on the Ohio Sea Grant website.
Connect with any of the Stone Lab seminar presentations via Zoom using this webinar link. Meeting ID: 980 4236 9279. Password: 988433.
June 5: From Flickers to Fire Throats: Rekindling Ohio’s Lake Erie Birding Trail Program
Jamey Emmert
Wildlife Communications Specialist
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ohio Division of Wildlife
June 12: How Ohio’s Environmental Professionals Navigate Collaboration to Collectively Confront Environmental Variability
Dr. Harrison Fried
Program Director of the Environmental Professional Network
School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
June 19: Dragonflies and Damselfies of Ohio
Dr. Dave McShaffery
Ebenezer Baldwin Andrews Chair of Natural Sciences
Marietta College
June 26: Professional Development in Coastal Resilience
Sarah Spiegler
Coastal Resilience Specialist
North Carolina Sea Grant College Program, North Carolina State University
July 3: From Macro to Mega: A Wide-ranging Look at State Agency Fisheries Research and Management
Sara Thomas
Lake Erie Unit Manager
Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Fisheries Division
July 10: Lifecycle of a Stream: How Fishes Respond to Variable Environmental Conditions Across Space and Time
Dr. Lyndsey Bruckerhoff
Assistant Professor and Co-director of the Aquatic Ecology Lab
Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University
July 17: Temperature and Bacterial Community Composition Mediate Cyanotoxin Degradation
Dr. Allison Rober
Associate Professor & Assistant Director of SENR for Stone Lab
School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
July 25: REU Student Presentations
Topics: (1) Cyanobacteria nutrient uptake, (2) Population Status of the Threatened Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) at Lake Erie Islands, (3) Insect Prey Availability for Lake Erie Island Bats, (4) Spatial Analysis of Microplastic Concentrations in Fishes Across Lake Erie.
For more information about the seminar, contact Dr. Brian Alford at alford.109@osu.edu or 419-285-1870.
Ohio Sea Grant is supported by The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University Extension, and NOAA Sea Grant, a network of 34 Sea Grant programs nation-wide dedicated to the protection and sustainable use of marine and Great Lakes resources. Stone Laboratory is Ohio State’s island campus on Lake Erie and is the research, education, and outreach facility of Ohio Sea Grant and part of CFAES School of Environment and Natural Resources.