The University of Toledo Lake Erie Center will host a free, public lecture on a large-scale research initiative to collect coastline data on Lake Erie on Thursday, Feb. 20.
“Introducing COMPASS: A Research Initiative Studying Lake Erie Coastal Wetlands to Understand How They Respond to Changing Lake Levels” begins at 7 p.m.
Dr. Michael Weintraub, a soil ecologist and professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, will present a free, public lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Dr. Michael Weintraub, a soil ecologist and professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, will present the lecture as a co-principal investigator of the Coastal Observations, Mechanisms and Predictions Across Systems and Scales (COMPASS) project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. COMPASS aims to inform and improve ecosystem models that will help forecast how coastal systems will function under rising sea levels and other unprecedented conditions related to climate change.
Headed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, COMPASS focuses on two regions: The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center leads operations in the salty Chesapeake Bay, while UToledo leads operations on the freshwater of the western basin of Lake Erie.
The UToledo Lake Erie Center is at 6200 Bay Shore Road in Oregon.
Attendees can arrange transportation on a free shuttle leaving Main Campus at 6:15 p.m. by emailing lakeeriecenter@utoledo.edu or calling 419.530.8360 by Tuesday, Feb. 18.
The UToledo Lake Erie Center is a research and educational facility focused on contributing to the understanding of freshwater ecosystems, which sustain a diversity of aquatic life and provide safe drinking water, fishing and recreation, with research applicable to the Great Lakes and aquatic ecosystems worldwide.
