August 28th Movie Screening. "Inland Seas: Understanding and Protecting the Waters of the Great Lakes," Rebecca Klaper and Matt Radcliff, funded by Wisconsin Coastal Management, UWM Great Lakes WATER Institute, and Paignton Pictures. Followed by a discussion on the Great Lakes Water Compact, led by Dr.Kenneth Kilbert, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo. Lake Erie Center, Thursday, August 28th, 2008, 7:00 PM (Open to the Public)
September 18th Public Talk Series. "Hypoxia in Lake Erie," Dr. Gerald Matisoff, Professor and Chair of Sedimentary and Environmental Geochemistry, Department of Geological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University. Lake Erie Center, Thursday, September 18th, 2008, 7:00 PM (Open to the Public)
October 8, DES colloquium, “N enrichment of ecosystems: do effects on decomposition vary in forest and agricultural soils?”, Dr. Stuart Grandy, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University. Wednesday October 8, 2008, 4:00 PM, Room 1045, Bowman-Oddy Building
October 16th Public Talk Series. "Food, Fertilizer, Fish, and Fouled Beaches: Water Quality in the Maumee River and the Western Basin of Lake Erie, 1975 to Present," Dr. Peter Richards, Senior Research Scientist, The National Center for Water Quality Research, Heidelberg College. Lake Erie Center, Thursday, October 16th, 2008, 7:00 PM (Open to the Public)
October 29, DES colloquium, "Down the Angry River: an ichthyological survey of the Gaoligongshan of southwestern China," Dr. David Neely, Research Scientist, Tennessee Aquarium Research Institute, Cohutta, Georgia. Wednesday, October 29th, 2008, 4:00, Room 1045, Bowman-Oddy Building
November 6th Public Talk Series. "Lake Erie's Dead Zone: Who Killed It?" Dr. Robert Heath, Director of the Water Resources Research Institute and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University. Lake Erie Center, Thursday, November 6th, 2008, 7:00 PM (Open to the Public)
November 19, DES colloquium, “Title forthcoming”, Dr. Susan Kalisz, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 4:00 PM, Room 1045, Bowman-Oddy Building
December 3, DES colloquium, “Determinants of Freshwater Fish Diversity in North America.” Dr. Gerald Smith, Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 4:00 PM, Room 1045, Bowman-Oddy Building
