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Understanding the Performance of Cascading Waterways in Ohio Agricultural Landscapes

May 20, 2026 – Applied research from Ohio Sea Grant, Stone Lab, and the Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative

New research from Ohio’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative is tackling one of Lake Erie’s biggest challenges: nutrient runoff that fuels harmful algal blooms after heavy rain.

Learn from The Ohio State University’s Steven Lyon, who has been testing an innovative conservation practice—cascading waterways—by monitoring water flow and nutrient levels to evaluate how well these systems reduce runoff, retain nutrients, and compare in cost-effectiveness to other conservation practices.

The webinar is free, but registration is required to receive log-in information.


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About the Speaker

Steve Lyon
Steve Lyon Professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University

Dr. Lyon’s research uses innovative approaches to characterize hydrological processes and engage people across scales to improve resource management in the face of coupled climate and land-use change. He works at the intersection of water chemistry and hydrometric observations often leveraging geographical information systems, remote sensing products, and geostatistical approaches. Integral here is working with hydrological and natural resources models for hypothesis testing connected to real-world data. Dr. Lyon attended Purdue University and graduated with a BSc in Agricultural and Biological Engineering. He completed his MSc and PhD both in Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University looking at how we incorporate the spatial structure of shallow water tables into hydrology. Dr. Lyon continued with postdoctoral research at the University of Arizona focusing on the evolution of land-water interaction in space and time. He joined the Department of Physical Geography at Stockholm University in 2008 promoting to Full Professor in 2016. While maintaining this affiliation, Steve worked with The Nature Conservancy as a Freshwater and Conservation Scientist. Dr. Lyon joined the faculty in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University in 2019 as an Associate Professor in Hydrology and Water Resources.

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