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Whole Lake Experiments to Control Harmful Algal Blooms in Multi-Use Watersheds USDA/CSREES Project Directors’ Meeting John T. Lehman January 2007
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Whole Lake Experiments to Control Harmful Algal Blooms in Multi-Use

Watersheds

USDA/CSREES Project Directors’ Meeting

John T. Lehman

January 2007

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Study Site

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The Environmental Problem

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Courtesy: G.J. Cope, Nformation Design 2006

Ford Lake- The Experiment Site

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Options Explored: Brochure and Public Outreach Lectures

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Options worth experiments, endorsed by unanimous vote of municipal Board of Trustees, and sanctioned by DNR and DEQ

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Reducing the zone of anoxia by model-guided experimental withdrawal: lake in cross-section

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Inducing a Diatom BloomInducing a Diatom Bloom

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AulacoseiraAulacoseira

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Changing Lake from Phosphorus Source to Phosphorus Sink

Experimental Discharge Scenario

Triggering a Diatom Bloom

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Phycocyanin, proxy for bluegreens

Experiments