Former ES Program Director Continues Work on Toxic Cyanobacteria

Wayne Carmichael, retired Professor of Biological Sciences and director of the ES PhD program from 2003 to 2007, continues to provide advice and training on harmful algae blooms of cyanobacteria (CyanoHABs). While State and local Ohio officials worked to understand and manage toxic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) this past summer, in Ohio’s Grand Lake, near the cities of Celina and St Marys, see: http://www.dailystandard.com/archive/story_single.php?rec_id=9313, Prof Carmichael was advising groups in Panama, Mexico and Guatemala.

In January he worked on Panama’s Gatun Lake, which forms the