GLIN==> Stone Laboratory Lecture to Discuss Climate Change Impacts on Great Lakes Fish

Stone Laboratory Lecture to Discuss Climate Change Impacts on Great Lakes
Fish

 

July 6, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University's island campus on Lake Erie, will
continue its summer guest lecture series tomorrow, July 7 at 7:45. Ohio
State University Assistant Professor Dr. Stuart Ludsin will discuss "Climate
Change Impacts on Fishes of the Great Lakes."

 

The public can either attend the presentation at Stone Lab or view the
presentation via a live web seminar. Those interested in learning more about
this simple and fast option and receiving the log-in information should
contact Matthew Forte at  <mailto:forte.40 at osu.edu> forte.40 at osu.edu or by
phone at 614.247.7439.

 

Each Thursday lecture begins at 7:45 p.m. and lasts until approximately 9
p.m. A brief presentation on current research precedes each lecture at 7
p.m. Dr. John-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University's Mechanical Engineering
Department Associate Professor and Chair, will speak tomorrow about using
robots for environmental science.

 

Guests interested in attending can take Lake Erie Water Taxi at their own
expense at 7:15 p.m. from the Boardwalk Restaurant dock to Gibraltar Island,
where they will be given a short tour before the lecture.

 

"The Guest Lectures Series is a great way to get Great Lakes information out
to the public," says Dr. Jeff Reutter, Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory
Director. "I encourage the public to come and take advantage of the
opportunity to hear and interact with each of them."

 

The lectures also will be broadcast live into 333C Kottman Hall on the Ohio
State main campus and upon request, broadcasts can be sent to other remote
locations. Contact the Stone Laboratory Office at 614.247.6500 for more
information.

 

Tune in next week, on Thursday, July 14, to hear from Ohio Department of
Natural Resources Director David Mustine in his presentation, "Productive
Partnerships: Watersheds and Lakes." Stone Lab Instructor Dr. Christopher
Winslow, Assistant Professor of Biology at Kutztown University, will discuss
his research, "Hypoxia in the Western Basin of Lake Erie: Low Oxygen in a
Shallow System."

 

Located on the 6.5-acre Gibraltar Island in Put-in-Bay harbor, Stone
Laboratory is The Ohio State University's Island Campus on Lake Erie and the
education and research facility of the Ohio Sea Grant College Program. The
Ohio State University's Ohio Sea Grant Program is part of NOAA Sea Grant, a
network of 32 Sea Grant programs dedicated to the protection and sustainable
use of marine and Great Lakes resources. For information on Ohio Sea Grant
and Stone Laboratory, visit
<http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/news/ohioseagrant.osu.edu>
ohioseagrant.osu.edu.

 

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Contact:

 

Matthew Forte, Ohio Sea Grant, Associate Editor, 614.247.7439,
<mailto:forte.40 at osu.edu> forte.40 at osu.edu.

 

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