Making Headlines

NBC4, July 26, 2019

A unique STEM summer day camp for high school students at Ohio State’s Center for Automotive Research provided a perfect setting this week for future engineers to learn more about the latest trends in the automotive and mobility industries. ...

Columbus Dispatch, July 26, 2019

Researchers at Kent State University have been awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to study the fast-spreading eastern red cedar tree, which is threatening ranchland and prairies in the Great Plains states. ...

Richland Source, July 26, 2019

The Ohio State University at Mansfield Microfarm has been hard at work over the past three months. The microfarm received a $2 million Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research grant in May. This helped their team launch an urban agriculture project which consisted of several local microfarms in Mansfield, and they are actively working to increase access to sustainable and locally-grown produce in Mansfield. The project aims to support the local economy while also benefiting individuals in the Mansfield community, giving them increased access to fresh produce. ...

WOSU, All Sides with Ann Fisher, July 25, 2019

Ohio State researchers are predicting another tough summer for Lake Erie. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are expecting the blooms to be 7.5 on the severity scale. Today on All Sides, we’re broadcasting live from the Ohio State Fair. We’ll talk with Bill Mitsch, the Director of the Florida Gulf Coast University’s Everglades Wetland Research Park, about how restoring the wetlands can impact Ohio’s algae blooms.  ...

Ohio Valley ReSource, July 25, 2019

...(West Virginia University  Professor Jeff) Skousen and a team of graduate students have grown giant miscanthus for close to a decade here near Alton, West Virginia, a place that wasn’t always a pasture. The site is one of numerous old surface coal mines across the Ohio Valley that was reclaimed, replacing the once barren ground with a layer of rocky topsoil. ...

WOSU, July 17, 2019

...Rivers in northern Ohio have long been conduits of industry, linking onshore factories to Great Lakes shipping and beyond. This industrial legacy spurred economic growth, but it also left the region’s waterways poisoned by unregulated pollution. One of the hardest hit rivers was the Ashtabula, in Ohio’s far northeast corner. ...

Fremont News Messenger, July 16, 2019

With a plain white Secchi disk mounted on a long pole, researchers at Ohio State University's Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory can get a good sense of Lake Erie's water clarity and how far light penetrates into the water column. ...

WOSU, All Sides with Ann Fisher, July 16, 2019

A long season of heavy rains has researchers forecasting a large algal bloom in Lake Erie’s central basin this summer. That’s according to a new study out of Ohio State University, which predicts this year’s algal bloom to be one of the worst since researchers started they measuring for it in 2002. ...

Columbus Dispatch, July 11, 2019

An Ohio State University study found that people who live Downtown or in densely populated neighborhoods, such as those near the Ohio State campus, are more likely to use their bicycles to commute than those living in other types of neighborhoods. But more people would be willing to bicycle to and from work if there were more bicycle trails, bike-sharing chances and covered parking, researchers found. ...

, July 7, 2019

In support of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s Plastic Free EcoChallenge, I encourage local, state and federal elected officials to approve legislation to reduce the use of single-use plastics. ...