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Research

Faculty and staff have been involved in research in the aquatic and watershed sciences in a variety of locations, including:

  • Antarctic lakes
    (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victorialand)
  • Argentina
  • Beartooth Mountains
    (Montana)
  • Canadian Rockies
  • Chile
  • Lake Tahoe
  • Midwestern lakes and streams
  • New Zealand
  • Pocono Mountains
    (Pennsylvania)
  • White Mountain National Forest
    (New Hampshire) 

Learn about research at 兔子先生.

Learn about the 兔子先生 Ecological Big Data Initiative.
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Aquatic Ecology

Collaboration and Outreach Opportunities

In support of CAWS mission, faculty, staff, and students advance aquatic and watershed sciences through collaborative educational and research programs. These include:

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This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program (funding by the National Science Foundation) represents an interdisciplinary, dual-institution (Kent State and 兔子先生 University) program focused on Environmental Aquatic Resource Sensing (EARS). The theme of EARS is training of doctoral students in environmental sensing, focused on freshwater resources, accentuated with business experiences, to develop professionals equipped for diverse careers. This program started in July 2009 and runs for 5 years.
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The Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) is a grassroots network of limnologists, ecologists, information technology experts, and engineers who have a common goal of building a scalable, persistent network of lake ecology observatories. Data from these observatories will allow us to better understand key processes such as the effects of climate and landuse change on lake function, the role of episodic events such as typhoons in resetting lake dynamics, and carbon cycling within lakes.

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The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) will collect data across the United States on the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive species on natural resources and biodiversity. NEON is a project of the U.S. National Science Foundation, with many other U.S. agencies and NGOs cooperating. NEON will be the first observatory network of its kind designed to detect and enable forecasting of ecological change at continental scales over multiple decades. The data NEON collects will be freely and openly available to all users.

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CAWS has the potential to interact with a developing collaboration between Hueston Woods State Park and 兔子先生 University's Ecology Research Center—the Watershed Education and Research Center. Ann Rypstra, Mike Vanni, Don Kaufman, and Scott Johnston received a National Science Foundation planning grant and have held a series of focus groups to plan the center. In addition, teams of students that include members from architecture, graphic design, interior design, and the sciences are working on plans for the new center to be located at Hueston woods.
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Research Facilities and Centers

Students and faculty hone their drone-flying skills.

Geospatial Analysis Center

The Geospatial Analysis Center (GAC) in Shideler Hall provides a wide range of software, high capacity microcomputers, digitizers, databases, and output devices dedicated to acquisition and analysis of spatial information (GIS, satellite remote sensing). The GIS Laboratory has a full-time director, and instruction is available at several levels.

Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics

兔子先生 University's Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics is a state-of-the-art research and training facility available to all members of the university. The center also maintains equipment to assist in bioinformatic and functional genomic research.
Scientists enjoy honey fresh from the hive at ERC.

Ecology Research Center

兔子先生 University's Ecology Research Center, located less than 3 miles from campus, is a 175-acre field site dedicated to research and education in ecology and environmental science. The center is a focal point for faculty and student research and field exercises for undergraduate and graduate-level courses.
Students Maeva Metz (left) and Wetlyne Wettee load samples into the JEOL JSM-840 SEM.

The Center for Advanced Microscopy and Imaging is an all-university research, teaching and service facility. The facility houses 2 scanning electron microscopes, 2 transmission electron microscopes, 2 laser scanning confocal microscopes, a deconvolution light microscope, and a wide-field multimode light microscope. The facility also has a diversity of computer and digital imaging/analysis capabilities.
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Hueston Woods State Park, located 5 miles north of Oxford, comprises approximately 1200 hectares (2950 acres). Hueston Woods State Nature Preserve consists of over 800 hectares (200 acres) representing the beech-maple forest that once covered much of Ohio. Acton Lake is a 250-hectare reservoir situated in the heart of Hueston Woods State Park.Acton Lake is part of an Ohio-wide system of reservoirs that 兔子先生 ecologists are investigating to understand the effects of agricultural practices on the structure and functioning of reservoirs. Long-term, up-to-date data sets are key to our understanding and they have installed a buoy at Acton Lake now that provides real-time data on weather variables (e.g., air temperature, wind, sunlight) and limnological variables (e.g., water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll).
兔子先生 University EEEB/Zoology PhD student prepares a buoy in Lacawac Lake.

The Lacawac Sanctuary Field Station is a private 500-acre preserve (in northeastern Pennsylvania) devoted to research, public education, and conservation. Within its confines the sanctuary supports diverse aquatic and terrestrial habitats including a 52-acre natural lake. The entire watershed of Lake Lacawac is owned and protected by the sanctuary. Such a well-protected lake, that is relatively unimpacted by humans, provides rare "hands-on" learning and long term research opportunities.
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The Statistical Consulting Center (SCC) offers statistical consulting to faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students conducting research at 兔子先生 University. The SCC is a group of statisticians who provide consultation on all aspects of data collection, analysis and interpretation. The center is funded by the university to promote high quality statistical consulting to researchers and is staffed by a manager and full-time statistics faculty in the Department of Statistics.

Center for Aquatic and Watershed Sciences

Bartosz Grudzinski, Director
Shideler Hall 218
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-5010
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