{"id":16775,"date":"2012-03-19T04:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T09:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=16775"},"modified":"2012-03-16T14:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T19:42:52","slug":"maumee-river-focus-of-next-quantum-leap-research-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_19_2012\/maumee-river-focus-of-next-quantum-leap-research-talk","title":{"rendered":"Maumee River focus of next &#8216;Quantum Leap&#8217; research talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Toledo community can learn more about what\u2019s going on in their own backyards at \u201cThe Maumee River and Its Watershed\u201d Tuesday, March 20.  <\/p>\n<p>The next panel discussion in the \u201cQuantum Leap: Science Made Easy\u201d series will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the McMaster Center in the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, 325 Michigan St. <\/p>\n<p>The free, public talk will cover not just the Maumee River, but its entire watershed area, which includes tributaries and wetlands across northwest Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything we do affects the Maumee River, which in turn affects the water we use and the food we eat,\u201d said Dr. Elsa Nadler, director of grants development in Research and Sponsored Programs.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tom Bridgeman, Dr. Hans Gottgens, Dr. Alison Spongberg and Dr. Daryl Dwyer, all UT faculty whose research is concentrated on the Maumee River watershed, will speak at this session. <\/p>\n<p>Their talks will cover a wide range of issues, including the use of native plants to sequester and remove pollutants, the effects of runoff substances on plants and wildlife, and the conditions that promote the growth of algae.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal of the series is to introduce UT research and UT researchers to the community,\u201d Nadler said. \u201cWe all live here together, but there is not always a good understanding of what researchers do and why their work is important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cQuantum Leap\u201d series is co-sponsored by The University of Toledo and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next panel discussion in the \u201cQuantum Leap: Science Made Easy\u201d series will be \u201cThe Maumee River and Its Watershed\u201d Tuesday, March 20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}