{"id":96383,"date":"2025-12-10T14:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=96383"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:18:38","slug":"mild-bloom-year-on-lake-erie-but-upstream-challenges-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/12_10_2025\/mild-bloom-year-on-lake-erie-but-upstream-challenges-persist","title":{"rendered":"Mild Bloom Year on Lake Erie, but Upstream Challenges Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Thomas Bridgeman, a professor of ecology and director of the UToledo Lake Erie Center, discusses reasons this year&#8217;s harmful algal bloom was among the mildest in a decade in the western basin of Lake Erie.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read: <\/b><b><u><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlive.com%2Fenvironment%2F2025%2F12%2Fit-was-mild-bloom-year-on-lake-erie-but-upstream-challenges-persist.html&amp;data=05%7C02%7CNicole.Gorny%40UToledo.Edu%7C05bcd8dc060f4e0d926908de37fc4ff6%7C1d6b1707baa94a3da8f8deabfb3d467b%7C0%7C0%7C639009754443472388%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=1g9fxpaWpt524V6QW75Qs%2BPO7skhZUO%2FxDcLMLsOCwY%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"07f7ec1f-4753-47d0-a7de-c244214b9b0d\">Mild Bloom Year on Lake Erie, but Upstream Challenges Persist<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Thomas Bridgeman, a professor of ecology and director of the UToledo Lake Erie Center, discusses reasons this year&#8217;s harmful algal bloom was among the mildest in a decade in the western basin of Lake Erie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96383"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96384,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96383\/revisions\/96384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}