F.T. Stone Lab's summer lecture series: 2010

[Eugene]

I know, with TOSA meetings ending for the season, you are all in a state of aqua-nerd presentation withdrawal. Me too! Fear not, TOSA members, you can score your fix each week via Stone Lab's lecture series.

Thursday evenings throughout the summer begin with a research brief at 7:00 pm followed by a guest lecture at 7:45. I hope to see some of you there. Not always fish, but always intriguing, and you get the opportunity to hang out with me and eat burritos (burrito not provided).

You're always welcome to attend either at Stone Lab in person or via video-conference feed to OSU's Kottman Hall, rm. 333-D (I tend the video feed here at OSU). The video link is two-way, so Columbus attendees can interact with and ask questions of the speakers.

Here is the 2010 schedule:

17 June
7:00 pm Research Brief: Dr. Amanda D. Rodewald, Associate Professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
"A bird’s eye view of the city: bird conservation in an urbanizing world"

7:45 pm Guest Lecture: Dr. Fred Hitzhusen, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, The Ohio State University
"Toward a More Renewable Energy Future for Ohio: An Environmental Economic Perspective"


24 June
7:00 pm Research Brief: Dr. Lisa DiPinto, Acting Marine Debris Chief, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Response & Restoration
"Great Lakes & Marine Debris: The NOAA Marine Debris Program’s Voyage into the Unknown"

7:45 pm Guest Lecture: Dr. Charles E. Herdendorf, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University
"Pioneering Research on Lake Erie: Stone Laboratory Contributions of the Last Century"


1 July
7:00 pm Research Brief: Dr. Thomas P. Simon, Adjunct Associate Professor, Indiana University-Bloomington
"Status of Crayfishes in Indiana"

7:45 pm Guest Lecture: Dr. Lawrence Krissek, Department of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
"The Geologic History of the Lake Erie Basin"


8 July
7:00 pm Research Brief: Dr. Michael A. Hoggarth, Department Chair, Life & Earth Sciences, Otterbein College
"Lampricide impacts on freshwater mussels"

7:45 pm Guest Lecture: Doug Brewer, Manager, Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge
"Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge: Part of a Bigger System"


15 July
7:00 pm Research Brief: Dr. Tom Duncan, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkley
"The Flora of the Erie Islands: A Review of the Past 30 Years of Research"

7:45 pm Guest Lecture: Dr. Marie Colton, Director, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
"NOAA in the Great Lakes"


29 July
7:00 pm Research Brief: Dr. Douglas Kane, Assistant Professor, Natural Science & Mathematics, Defiance College
"Lake Erie Re-Eutrophication: Evidence from the Maumee and Sandusky Systems"

7:45 pm Guest Lecture: Gail Hesse, Chair, Lake Erie Phosphorus Task Force, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
"Algae Blooms in Lake Erie: Overview and Findings of the Ohio Lake Erie Phosphorus Task Force"


5 August
7:00 pm Research Brief: Dr. Rex L. Lowe, Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University
"The myth of cosmopolitan eucaryotic microbes"

7:45 pm Guest Lecture: Roger Knight, Lake Erie Programs Administrator, Ohio Department of Natural Resources-Division of Wildlife
"The Asian Carp Threat to Lake Erie Fisheries"


12 August
7: 00 pm Research Brief: Dr. Amy Braccia, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University
"Relating environmental stressors and the biological integrity of streams to local land use: an example using cattle and aquatic insects"

7:45 pm Guest Lecture: Dr. John Gannon, International Joint Commission
"Lake Erie and the World's Other Great Lakes: Lessons in Sustainability"

[ecoangler]

Thanks. It will be great to hear Dr. Simon again.
The programs for July 1 and August 12 seem interesting to me. I'll add them to my calendar.

Rick

[Eugene]

Thanks for paying attention, Rick. I hope you can make one or two.

Tom's a great guy and I'm really pleased to have his involvement at the lab this year. I'm particularly fond of his work with ichthyoplankton...because I am a nerd.

[Eugene]

Roger Knight, the guy in charge of ODNR Division of Wildlife's Lake Erie programs, is speaking this very Thursday, 5 August (i.e., tomorrow from the time of this posting) on the threat of silver and bighead carps to the Great Lakes at 7:45. It should be good. I hope you can either make it to Stone Lab in person or join me at OSU's Kottman Hall room 333-D as detailed above. The videoconference feed to OSU is 2-way, so you can ask questions of the presenters.