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The LEC is open to the public
Monday - Friday, 9am - 4:30pm
Map to the LEC
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The University of Toledo's Lake Erie Center is an interdisciplinary research and education center dedicated to solving environmental problems at the land-water interface and bay-lake exchanges in the Great Lakes - the world's largest freshwater ecosystem. The Lake Erie Center is an integral environmental resource of the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Toledo and is located in the northwestern corner of Ohio's Maumee Bay State Park. Research at the Lake Erie Center explores the linkages among land use, aquatic resources, water quality, and human health - using the Maumee River and Bay and its key influence on the western Lake Erie Basin as a model. The Lake Erie Center assembles within a single facility programs and expertise in aquatic conservation, bioremediation and restoration, coastal zone processes, environmental chemistry and hydrology, ecology and ecosystem management, fishery genetics, geography and land use planning, limnology, remote sensing, and environmental and health monitoring.
Weekly guided tours of the LEC are offered every Wednesday at 10:00am.
Interested parties should meet in the lobby near the main entrance.
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- 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. Thursday, August 28th, 2008, 7:00 PM (Open to the Public)
- 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. Thursday, September 18th, 2008, 7:00 PM (Open to the Public)
- 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. Thursday, October 16th, 2008, 7:00 PM (Open to the Public)
- 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. Thursday, November 6th, 2008, 7:00 PM (Open to the Public)
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