OH) The Toledo Blade – To the layman, a conference being held at the University of Toledo this week may appear to be just the latest in a confusing collection of Great Lakes events.
But to those who intimately track the science behind the Earth’s largest source of fresh surface water, this week’s International Association of Great Lakes Research conference says a lot about UT’s ambition to become an academic powerhouse for environmental studies.
It also illustrates how much more value northwest Ohio has started to place on the environment after years of neglect, from more fish and algae research to being reinvigorated – with the university’s help – by solar power and other forms of alternative energy that can help the lakes, officials said. More