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Is our drinking water quality threatened here in the Great Lakes region?

Have you ever seen the “nasty green slime” – properly known as a harmful algal bloom, or HAB in Lake Erie? Remember the July 31, 2014 “Do Not Drink/Do Not Boil” public health warning messages in Toledo? Tests revealed that the algae was producing microcystin, a sometimes deadly liver toxin and suspe…

Tags: Department of Earth Sciences , Joseph Ortiz , Research and Science , Lake Erie , climate change , Water pollution , Nutrient pollution , Stormwater , Clean Water Act , Great Lakes , Toxic algae , Drinking water , Green roofs , Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

"We're Killing Our Lakes and Oceans": Kent State Geology Professor Co-Authors Op-Ed Essay

Joseph D. Ortiz, Ph.D., professor and assistant chair in the department of geology at ������ recently co-authored an op-ed essay for Undark.org with his colleague Eelco J. Rohling, a professor of ocean and climate change at the Australian National University in Canberra, and…

Tags: Research & Science , Joe Ortiz , Department of Earth Sciences , Lake Erie , Clean Water Act , Research , Global Warming , Wetlands , Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

"We're Killing Our Lakes and Oceans": Kent State Geology Professor Co-Authors Op-Ed Essay

Joseph D. Ortiz, Ph.D., professor and assistant chair in the department of geology at ������ recently co-authored an op-ed essay for Undark.org with his colleague Eelco J. Rohling, a professor of ocean and climate change at the Australian National University in Canberra, and…

Tags: Joe Ortiz , Department of Earth Sciences , Lake Erie , Clean Water Act , Research , Global Warming , Wetlands