From BGSU OFFICE OF MARKETING & BRAND STRATEGY
The next BGSU Science Café will address: “Wetlands: Are They a Cost-Effective Solution for the Problem of Harmful Algal Blooms?”
Researcher Bob Midden will be the featured speaker Tuesday, April 18, 2023 I 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Registration is required. Click to register.
In this presentation, Dr. Midden will be discussing Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), which are a serious threat to the environment, economy, and public health of people who rely on Lake Erie and many other water bodies in Ohio but also across the country and throughout the globe. The State of Ohio is devoting a considerable amount of money and effort to reduce HABs to acceptable levels in a program called H2Ohio. In this session you will hear briefly about the full range of strategies being used in H2Ohio and will learn specifically about the major role that wetlands are playing and the highlights of the research being conducted by scientists at BGSU and five other Ohio Universities to determine how well they can work for resolving this problem.
Dr. Midden will be joined by co-presenter Dr. Lauren Kinsman-Costello, along with Bowling Green State University students Braden Baumhower, Lucinda Busselle, and Ibrahim Mohammed as panelists.
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Dr. Robert Midden earned a Ph.D in Biochemistry from the Ohio State University in 1978 and began his career in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins University where he helped start a new Ph.D program in Environmental Chemistry.
He came to BGSU in 1987 to join a team building the new Ph.D program in photochemical sciences and establishing BGSU as a national leader in photochemical sciences research. Since then, he has pursued multiple research interests including bioorganic photochemistry of some of the fundamental processes of carcinogenesis, the development of more effective methods of education at all levels, and now he studies the chemodynamics of water and soil, especially as it relates to restoring and maintaining water quality in our environment.
Dr. Midden leads a science research group investigating problems that are threatening the environmental welfare and economic vitality of Lake Erie and other Ohio lakes, rivers, and streams.
