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MK Rinderle is senior environmental science major at The Ohio State University’s School of Environment and Natural Resources. In 2022, she spent the summer at Stone Lab as part of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Fellowship Program.
The program allowed her to completely focus on her research and expand what she learned on Ohio State’s Columbus campus to a larger lab setting. MK completed water quality research with Dr. Justin Chaffin, studying harmful algal blooms using some of Stone Lab’s new mesocosms, which are large tanks of lake water that mimic the natural environment better than smaller bottle experiments. The data they collected in those experiments will help Great Lakes researchers continue to address Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms and provide safe drinking water for millions of people living near the lake.
