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In the News in 2022

“WETLANDS and CLIMATE CHANGE” Distinguished Speaker Series w/Dr. Bill Mitsch (APRIL 12, 2022)

2022 Moonlight on the Marsh Lecture
March 24, 2022

TITLE: “What I Fought For: Memoirs of an Environmental Professor” - William J. Mitsch, Ph.D., Everglades Wetland Research Park, Naples, Florida, and Juliet C. Sproul Chair for Southwest Florida Habitat Restoration and Management, Florida Gulf Coast University, Naples, Florida

2022 Moonlight on the Marsh Lecture (March 17, 2022)

TITLE: “Finding the Rarest Birds in the World” -- Bernard F. Master, DO, FACOFP, DNB, Clinical Professor, Clinical Medicine, Emeritus, OUHCOM, Ohio University

 

Congratulations to Prof. Pei Ma, a recent visiting scholar (2018) from Henan University of Engineering, Zhengzhou, China, to our Everglades Wetland Research Park, for a formal peer-reviewed publication on the dynamics of nitrogen in Lake Okeechobee and especially identifying the dominate sources of nitrate-nitrogen in the lake*
*The citation is: Ma, P., L. Zhang and W.J. Mitsch. 2020. Investigating sources and transformations of nitrogen using dual stable isotopes for Lake Okeechobee restoration in Florida. Ecological Engineering 155: 105947. See https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bJm13IW-wfbWI
(You can download the paper for free for the next 50 days from this address.)

 

Highlights of this peer-reviewed paper include:
1. The Kissimmee River, as expected, dominated inflows to Lake Okeechobee (58.4±2.11m3/s) much higher than the second most important inflow. Primary outflows were westward discharges to the Caloosahatchee (27.7±0.63m3/s) to the Gulf of Mexico, and eastward discharges to the St. Lucie River (7.0±0.30m3/s) to the Atlantic Ocean.

2. Total nitrogen and total phosphorus averaged 1.56±0.42 mg L-1 and 0.11±0.06 mg L-1 respectively at 14 near-shore sampling sites with no significant seasonal variations. Dissolved organic nitrogen was the dominant form of nitrogen, averaging 1.18±0.32 mg L-1.

3. Nitrate isotopes revealed that non-point sources from NH4+ fertilizers and soil nitrogen were the main nitrate sources to Lake Okeechobee. NH4+ fertilizer contributed 36.7% of the lake’s nitrate in the dry season and 54.9% in the wet season, while soil nitrogen contributes 31.4% in the dry season and 25.1% in the wet season.

4. Animal manure was not a dominant source of nitrate to the lake, contributing 12.0% of the nitrate in the wet season and 25.4% in the dry season.

5. Monitoring and regulatory strategies for the lake restoration should consider the control of nitrogen pollution sources from agriculture to complement efforts to control phosphorus inflows that are often thought to be the main drivers for harmful algal blooms in the lake and downstream of the lake. Furthermore, nitrate-nitrogen is generally considered the main nutrient that stimulates red tide.

Thanks to the People’s Republic of China for providing a scholarship to Prof. Pei Ma that allowed her to spend a year in Naples to contribute to the restoration of the Florida Everglades and improve the water quality of our south Florida estuaries and beaches. We are very appreciative to the many visiting scholars who join us every year and contribute to our research and teaching.
Thanks also to Duke Vasey for serving as a driver for Pei Ma and others from our lab so that they could sample around the entire perimeter of Lake O in wet and dry seasons in 2018.

 

FGCU’s Everglades Wetland Research Park in Naples FL receives $1 million grant to investigate innovative approach for mitigating harmful algal blooms (EWRP, June 24, 2020)

A pilot-scale project on a 700-acre lake in south Lee county has just been funded by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for monitoring, predicting, and controlling harmful algal blooms. This two-year project will test an innovative “buoy ultrasonic technology”(MPC-Buoy) to eliminate the symptoms of eutrophication by toxic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). This MPC-Buoy system first provides a complete overview of the water quality and algal biomass every 10 minutes thereby making it possible to modify the ultrasonic program to the specific water conditions and type of algae present. This way, it is possible to manage existing algae and prevent the growth of new algae.

The project will be managed and monitored by FGCU’s Everglades Wetland Research Park located on the campus of the Naples Botanical Garden in Naples, Florida, in collaboration with a team that includes LG Sonic US, Scranton, Pennsylvania and scientists from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and Mote Marine Lab, Sarasota, FL.

Greg Eiffert, Director of LG Sonic US, gave the history of this approach. "Our parent company in the Netherlands has been installing systems in over 26 countries for the past 10 years. Having just opened the US office in Spring of 2019, we have systems currently active in 16 states including Florida. We are happy to see the State of Florida investing in treatment of algal blooms without chemicals. In addition to being a chemical free system, it’s solar powered and eco-friendly, with no negative effects to the environment.”

Bill Mitsch, Director of the Everglades Wetland Research Park in Naples, FL and principal investigator for this project, suggest that if the MPC-Buoy system is effective in reducing algal blooms in this pilot-scale project in south Florida, “we may be able to scale-up and develop a strategy for mitigating if not eliminating the toxic algae releases from Lake Okeechobee that have been causing harmful algal blooms on our Gulf and Atlantic coastlines. That could lead to a significant improvement in water quality in south Florida and the Greater Everglades.”

Congratulations to Lauren Griffiths on successfully defending her PhD dissertation (EWRP, May 4, 2020)

Congratulations to Bill Mitsch's graduate student Lauren Griffiths on successfully defending her PhD dissertation this afternoon on a zoom defense held in Naples, Tampa, and Puerto Rico. 45 folks attended from all over the world too. Title of dissertation was Biogeochemical Cycling of Nutrients and Carbon in Tropical and Subtropical Wetlands.” Masterful defense of work in freshwater and saltwater wetlands in Florida and Puerto Rico. She will graduate with PhD in School of Geosciences at University of South Florida in August 2020, we still think remotely because of COVID-19.

Long-time SWS member and award-winning water scientist and Everglades research director, William Mitsch, presents a webinar on the state of the nation’s environment on Earth Day 2020 (Society of Wetland Scientists, April 29, 2020)

Florida Gulf Coast University’s Everglades Wetland Research Park (EWRP) Director Dr. Bill Mitsch presented an Earth Day webinar at the invitation of Federal agency National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Earth Day's fiftieth anniversary, April 22, 2020. The one-hour remote presentation was attended by 548 participants from all over the world. A recording of the webinar can be viewed on NOAA’s YouTube channel

 

Everglades research director presents a state-of the-nation's environment on Earth Day 2020 (Eco-Voice, April 29, 2020)

Award-winning water scientist and Everglades research director presents a state-of the-nation’s environment on Earth Day 2020 (EWRP, April 22, 2020)

Florida Gulf Coast University’s Everglades Wetland Research Park (EWRP) Director Dr. Bill Mitsch presented an Earth Day webinar at the invitation of Federal agency National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Earth Day, April 22, 2020, the fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day. The one-hour remote presentation was attended by 548 participants from all over the world.

James Turek, a restoration ecologist at NOAA’s Restoration Center in Narragansett, Rhode Island, introduced Mitsch at the webinar by recounting the significance of the first Earth Day, in 1970, to Mitsch’s environmental science and engineering career path. Mitsch was then working for energy giant Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, but after that first Earth Day he lobbied relentlessly to join their new Environmental Affairs department, which a year later led him to graduate school at the University of Florida specializing in environmental engineering sciences and later systems ecology under well-known ecologist H. T. Odum.

He has been an ecologist and ecological engineer ever since.

In his talk on environmental developments through the past 50 years, Mitsch suggested that while there are some signs of progress over the past 50 years, too many problems remain on the fiftieth anniversary of that first Earth Day: “As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day . . . our over-crowded, climatically challenged, and poorly managed planet is now threatened even more than it was 50 years ago.”

Mitsch stated that “Covid-19 is perhaps Nature reminding us that we may have now gone just too far.” He also called Florida policies allowing use of poisons such as glyphosate in south Lake Okeechobee an “arrogant attempt to control Nature,” and stated that though such practices are named restoration, “they are not.” Recent reductions of Federal involvement in wetland protection after 45 years of the Clean Water Act were described as “unfortunate, as we need wetland ecosystem services today more than ever.”

But Mitsch also detailed his promising, optimistic “wetlaculture” (wetlands + agriculture) landscape renewal research at the EWRP which is meant to “reduce the relentless application of fertilizers across our agricultural landscape while restoring and creating wetland habitats to make up for the gigantic losses of wetlands worldwide. Through wetlaculture, now being developed as a business approach in collaboration with Business Professor Sam Miller from the University of Notre Dame, “farmers and investors could make a profit either by farming or creating wetlands, and downstream waters will be cleaner too.”

Response to the webinar was overwhelmingly appreciative. Dennis P. Vasey, Chairman of the Water Symposium of Florida, Inc., and a member of the EWRP advisory committee, applauded the presentation by saying that it offered “a logical process of why we need wetlands and a takeaway that would reduce agricultural fertilizer use and improve water quality,” adding, “As I consider the presentation, Dr. Mitsch gave us a gift!” From Ecuador, John Porterfield, a volunteer with Citizens’ Climate Change Lobby, wrote that the webinar “was truly excellent,” saying, “I enjoyed the pace, which created nice ‘space’ between the milestones of the presentation, and maintained near-continuous cogitation! Videos spliced into presentation were a highlight!” Biology professor Sister Rosine Sobczak of Lourdes College in Toledo, Ohio, concurred: “I really enjoyed your presentation! I know we have problems, but it was good to see the research to back them up. Keep on doing what you are doing and spreading the message.” And Gwen Ginocchio of Costa Mesa, California wrote: “Thank for your talk on wetlands. I learned many things. You've given us hope on Earth Day.”

The webinar can be found on NOAA’s YouTube (https://youtu.be/6YuCxE2RoGQ)

 EWRP paper published on the importance of sedimentation in urban treatments wetlands constructed to protect Naples Bay and Gulf of Mexico (EWRP, April 21, 2020)

Hurrah for our EWRP grad student Lauren Griffiths. The first of several formally peer-reviewed papers resulting from her upcoming Ph.D. has just been published. This paper discusses the importance of sedimentation in the ability of a set of created urban wetlands in Naples Florida built to improve the water quality of urban runoff before it enters Naples Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1axOxB8ccoCeh
Congratulations, Lauren!!

Congratulations to Bing Bing Jiang, EWRP’s newest Ph.D. (Naples and Tampa, April 7, 2020)

Hurrah for EWRP graduate student Bing Bing Jiang, who successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation Tuesday afternoon April 7, 2020. She will graduate in summer semester with a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Science & Policy from University of South Florida while performing the research at our lab in Naples and at field sites in Ohio. Here is a copy of the title slide of her dissertation presentation yesterday to the public and to her committee. Thirty-three people from all over the country and world, including China and Poland, attended her presentation through zoom.

Both FGCU AND USF benefited gigantically from this collaboration of state universities, Bing Bing got the best of the best of wetland science education that she could possibly get anywhere in the country, and tax dollars were saved! What is not to be happy about?

Congratulations, Bing Bing!

EWRP Ph.D. student BingBing Jiang interviewed by University of South Florida Geoscience podcast (March 27, 2020)

Congratulations to Andrew Wilson (EWRP, March 26, 2020)

Congratulations to Andrew Wilson on his successful completion of his Qualifying Exam today for his Ph.D.  in our collaborative program with USF’s School of GeoScience. The exam was held remotely in Naples, Tampa, and Notre Dame Indiana by Zoom. So properly not much of a crowd to celebrate in Naples or any place else. This makes the third graduate student completing his/her qualifying exam in the last 18 months in this FGCU/USF collaborative program. And another new student was admitted to the program today.

Environmentalists to Army Corps: Reservoir to cut Lake Okeechobee discharges won't work - TCPalm (February 25, 2020)

FGCU holding workshop on wetlands mitigating harmful algae blooms- WINK TV (February 20, 2020)

Sea-level rise and onshore development are killing Florida's mangroves. Here's why that matters -USToday (February 14, 2020)

Researcher Proposes Using 'Wetlaculture' to Prevent Harmful Algal Blooms - WGCU (February 14, 2020)

Bill Mitsch is on Beach Talk Radio - Beach Talk Radio (February 8, 2020)

Florida's war on weeds is killing fish and supercharging red tide, opponents say—CNN (February 7, 2020)

Could we have a clean Estero Bay again? FGCU's Cela Tega conference offered a toolkit of ideas —Ft Myers New-Press (January 25, 2020)

Bill Mitsch presented “Troubled Waters: Sea turtles, plastics, red tide, Everglades, misguided water policies in south Florida, and wetlaculture" in 2020 Cela Tega conference —The Estero Bay is in trouble and what residents can do to help. (January 25, 2020 FGCU, Ft. Myers, FL (January 25, 2020)

FGCU wetlands professor blasts Trump water rules, calls for citizen action—The Paradise Progressive (January 24, 2020)

North Naples, FL (January 13, 2020)—EWRP Director Bill Mitsch presented "Sustainably solving wetland loss and harmful algal blooms (HABs) with created wetlands and wetlaculture” to the Seven Sisters of Southwest Florida luncheon at Pelican Isle Yacht Club, Naples, FL on Monday January 13, 2020. Dr. Mitsch’s lecture covered his lab’s wetland research in SW Florida and Ohio and introduced the concept of Wetlaculture. About 70 participants attended the luncheon and Prof. Mitsch’s lecture. Many were alumnae of one of the seven sister universities. According to wikipedia "The Seven Sisters are seven highly selective and prestigious liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. Five of the seven institutions continue to offer all-female undergraduate programs: Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College. Vassar College has been co-educational since 1969. Radcliffe College shared common and overlapping history with Harvard College from the time it was founded as "the Harvard Annex" in 1879. Harvard and Radcliffe effectively merged in 1977, but Radcliffe continued to be the sponsoring college for women at Harvard until its dissolution in 1999. Barnard College was Columbia University's women's liberal arts undergraduate college until its all-male coordinate school Columbia College went co-ed in 1983; to this day, Barnard continues to be a women's undergraduate college affiliated with Columbia.”

Naples, FL (January 8, 2020)—Our preview showing of the movie "Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale,” a production of WLRN public TV in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale was a great success on Wednesday evening January 8, 2020 at the Everglades Wetland Research Park. A full-house of 150 attended and they gave an enthusiastic applause at the end of the movie. The movie features actor and ocean activist Ted Danson and is narrated by Peter Coyote. It take a critical look at the effects of global warming, water pollution and our “throw-away” plastic lifestyle on sea turtles and inevitably on ourselves. Some reviews we received on social media:

1. Was a wonderful evening - everyone should see this movie, and then spread the word! Thanks for all you're doing Bill to shine the light on these important issues.

2. Fabulous!

3. Thanks so much for the invitation tonight. We both truly enjoyed it & I know April 20th will be a day to remember.

4. Thank you for a most informative (and a bit emotional 😢) program last evening!

5. ….'Troubled Waters' should be a required viewing for all of us in U.S.A working in Environmental Health areas….

6. I wanted to express to you again how much I enjoyed the film and look forward to sharing it with my friends and family this April!

7. One of the most powerful films I've seen. A cinematic Silent Spring”

Distinguished visitors included several of our EWRP advisory committee members, FGCU Dean of Engineering Richard Behr, Ph.D., and the new Director of Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Lisa Korte, Ph.D. We have been told by the movie director in Miami that this will be broadcast around the country on April 20 on PBS TV stations to celebrate 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

In the news in 2019

Shanghai Delegation visited EWRP in Kapnick, FGCU, Naples, Florida (October 29, 2019)
Haifeng, Cheng, Deputy Director, Senior Engineer, Shanghai Administration Center For Ocean Affairs; Libei, Liu , Office Deputy Director, Economist, Shanghai Administration Center For Ocean Affairs; Xuyun, Wu, Deputy Director, Engineer, Shanghai Marine Environmental Monitoring and Forecasting Center; Wansheng, Wang, Director, Senior Engineer, Shanghai Jinshan District Ocean Pond Management Institute; Li Yan, Senior Engineer, Shanghai Water Planning and Design Research Institute; Wen Wang, Assistant Engineer, Shanghai Bibo Water Design and Research Center

Blue-Green Algae Task Force Welcomed to the Kapnick in Naples FL (September 25, 2019)

EWRP Director Bill Mitsch gave a short welcome on behalf of all students, staff, faculty, visiting scholars and advisors of Everglades Wetland Research Park to the State of Florida's Blue-Green Algae Task Force that met at the Kapnick (EWRP's home on FGCU’s Naples campus) on September 24 and 25.

He described at how pleased he was to move to the Kapnick in 2012 from up north when the EWRP was born. "We hope you enjoy your stay here. When the FGCU administration offered me the Kapnick in 2012, then basically unused by the Ft. Myers campus an hour north of here during Season traffic on I-75, I thought I died and landed in wetland heaven. The Everglades to the east, mangroves on Naples and Rookery Bays to the immediate south and west.”

He also called attention to past and future planned expansion of the EWRP. "Our wetland research park now informally and formally includes Collier County’s Freedom Park wetland park just a few minutes drive from here in central Naples and possibly a new research site 200 yards north on Bayshore Drive as early as next year.

He invited participants to pick up publication reprints and join a tour the lab and offices. He also called attention to the members of the task force from University of Florida "I am also especially happy to welcome chief scientist Tom Frazer and committee member Wendy Graham to the EWRP. Gators are always welcome here!” 

Wetland Scientist Questions Design of the EAA Reservoir Project (WGCU, August 26, 2019)

Press Release: Independent peer-reviewed science again calls into question the SFWMD’s EAA reservoir design&nbsbp;(Friends of the Everglades, August 15, 2019)

Press Release: SIERRA CLUB DEMANDS FULL REVIEW OF THE EAA RESERVOIR DESIGNAlternatives for Water Storage, Treatment, and Conveyance South are Way Past Due (Sierra Club, August 15, 2019)

Belle Glade, FL—The recently released review of the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Storage Reservoir by William J. Mitsch, Director of the Florida Gulf Coast University's Everglades Wetland Research Park, draws attention once again to the fact that the current project design is seriously lacking.
Statement by Sierra Club Organizing Representative Diana Umpierre:
“A full review of the EAA Storage Reservoir design is immediately required and South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) must aggressively identify alternatives for water storage, treatment, and conveyance south.
Sierra Club has been challenging South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) since 2017 to make full use of the resources provided by state law to design a cost-effective reservoir project in the Everglades Agricultural Area that maximizes potential benefits and ensures the conveyance of clean water south to Everglades National Park and Florida Bay. The current design is a staggering betrayal of the expectations created by the legislation (SB 10) signed into law in 2017.
The South Florida Water Management District has never engaged in a concerted effort to ensure a larger project footprint to boost the project’s water treatment capacity; in fact no alternatives were ever presented that address the concerns that restricting the project’s size limits its ability to achieve optimum performance.
Dr. Mitsch’s review underlines the need to ensure that the project design is consistent with the intent and letter of the law, presents the optimal configuration to reduce discharges to Florida’s coasts and deliver clean water to the Everglades and Florida Bay, and provides these benefits cost-effectively.
SB10 required SFWMD to analyze the "optimal configuration” (subparagraph (5)(b)(1) of Florida Statute 373.4598) of the reservoir and SFWMD was not limited to acreage already in public ownership. We need land, close to 100,000 acres, to truly restore the Everglades ecosystem and protect residents from toxic harmful algae – both around Lake Okeechobee and in the northern estuaries. For two decades everything but what is actually needed has been the focus. Dr. Mitsch’s review gives the District another reason to finally make land acquisition their top priority.
It makes no sense to spend $2 billion on a reservoir with a questionable design that is highly unlikely to provide the desperately needed benefits. Too many people have rushed to promote the implementation of the current design. Claiming victory, accepting less than what we truly need, will not ensure the restoration of the Everglades. We need to continue to demand the land needed to make restoration a reality.”

Background:
http://www.sierraclubfloridanews.org/2018/08/sierra-club-comments-draft-eis-for-eaa-reservoir.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bfq0dFO5TtUUVkaEhyempIUFlhSVVKbkxvand4Vk5iRFI4/view
http://www.sierraclubfloridanews.org/2017/05/everglades-reservoir-law-is-improvement.html

Experts Say The EAA Reservoir Won't Work (Bullsugar.org, August 15, 2019)

Everglades expert: Reservoir to curb discharges won't clean water; should SFWMD redesign? (TCPalm, August 14, 2019)

• https://www.news-press.com/story/tech/science/environment/2019/08/14/should-eaa-reservoir-project-redesigned-clean-water-better/2015173001/
• https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/environment/2019/08/14/should-eaa-reservoir-project-redesigned-clean-water-better/2015120001/
• http://www.usnews.ws/breaking/everglades-expert-reservoir-to-curb-discharges-wonapost-clean-water-should-sfwmd-redesign

 

EWRP scientists, visiting scholars, and students visit Grand Lake St. Marys treatment wetlands in Ohio (The Evening Leader, August 9, 2019)
Economics might support grandiose Great Black Swamp restoration (Toledo Blade, August 4, 2019)

FGCU’s Everglades center director comments on the current reservoir plan for solving harmful algal blooms and restoring the Florida Everglades in a peer-reviewed publication (published July 31, 2019)
William J. Mitsch, Ph.D., Eminent Scholar and Juliet C Sproul Chair for Southwest Florida Habitat Restoration at the Everglades Wetland Research Park, College of Arts & Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, published on July 31, 2019 a peer-reviewed revision of a review that he wrote in April 2018 of the “EAA Reservoir Plan.” The review was commissioned by The Friends of the Everglades, an NGO based in Miami, Florida. The purpose of this EAA Reservoir project plan, developed primarily by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), is to mitigate coastal pollution resulting from discharges from Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coastline, and eventually to “send the water south” to the Florida Everglades instead. The project was included by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a 2018 U.S. Congressional bill that was approved. In May 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to spend $200 million to begin this project, three times the amount requested by the state of Florida. A change in leadership in the state of Florida after the November 2018 elections and especially in the leadership of the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) has led to renewed public optimism for major improvements in water quality management and for Everglades restoration in south Florida. It is therefore timely that this review of the advantages and shortcomings of the original “EAA (Everglades Agricultural Area) Reservoir Plan” now be widely disseminated  to encourage discussions among aquatic scientists, water resource engineers, and the general public.

Researcher says Great Black Swamp experiment could help Lake Erie (Toledo Blade, July 28, 2019)

All Sides with Ann Fisher: Ohio Wetlands And Algae Blooms (WOSU, July 25, 2019)
Black Swamp Savior: How Bringing Back Conquered Wetlands Could Help Solve Harmful Algal Blooms (Environmental Monitor, July, 2019)

All Sides with Ann Fisher: Algal Blooms And Water Pollution (WOSU, July 16, 2019)

Looking at the algae crisis one year later (WINK TV, July 10, 2019)

Cape Coral FL--The news networks were going nuts last year, especially in spring and summer 2018, when we had unprecedented algal blooms in freshwater, brackish, and salt water in many locations of southwest Florida. This year, there are few signs of algae, especially blue-green algae or cyanobacteria, in Cape Coral where water in the man-made channels and ditches is often stagnant so these are the first waters to show the symptoms. What a difference a year makes. Algae blooms are known for being episodic so there are three possible explanations for the cleaner waterways in Cape Coral--1. fewer discharges from upstream by now-aware state and Federal agencies to reduce the symptoms downstream; 2. rainfall and natural runoff patterns vary from year to year; and 3. the algae bloom season is just getting started a little later this year due to slightly cooler waters. So don't let your guard down, Cape Coral.

Workshop on Wetlands Mitigating Harmful Algal Blooms in Huron, OH in August 3, 2019 (June 25, 2019)

The Everglades Wetland Research Park will host this workshop with a number of the partnerships: The Jerry B. Pausch Foundation,The Ohio State University (School of Natural Resources and The Sustanability Institute), Ohio Wetlands Association, Streams and Wetlands Foundation, European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology, University of Lodz, University of Notre Dame, Bowling Green State University,National Wildlife Federation, University of Toledo,  and U.S. National Ramsar Committee) at Sawmill Creek Resort in Huron, Ohio in August 3, 2019.

WestFest at the Ohio State University (May 18, 2019)