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- Guest Writer Stacy Brannan discusses the new research on Roundup as a cause of algal blooms in Lake Erie.
Dave Dempsey's offers a new editorial The Political Geography of Water.

Weekly update for May 4 - 8, 2009

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Stacy_Brannan.jpgStacy Brannan  is Associate Editor for Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory, writing and editing for the nation's oldest freshwater biological field station and Ohio State University's island campus on Lake Erie.  

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  "The best thing about my job at Ohio Sea Grant is the opportunity I have to talk to the people who are working to solve the mysteries of Lake Erie."

Weekly Editorial

dave.jpgIn this week's editorial, The Political Geography of Water, Dave Dempsey discusses the  different attitudes towards the Great Lakes from people inside or outside the basin. Dave was asked "If there are six quadrillion gallons of water in the Great Lakes, wouldn't the removal of hundreds of millions or even billions of gallons be difficult to discern? What's the harm, especially if it is taken for those communities that need it?

 

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