Stuart Ludsin and Noel Aloysius traveled to the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA during December 12-16.

Noel and Stuart served as the Primary Convener and Co-Chair, respectively, of a symposium entitled, “New Frontiers in Water Resources: Achieving Water Resource Security in Times of Climate Change, Urbanization, and Agricultural Expansion”.

Noel also gave a contributed talk on his past PhD research entitled, “Hydroclimatic Change in the Congo River Basin: Past, Present and Future”, and co-authored an invited talk entitled “Reducing Lake Erie’s Harmful Algal Blooms: Projection and Adoption of Management Plans”.

OSU released a news article about their research, to coincide with the AGU meeting.  It is entitled “Public willing to pay to reduce toxic algae – but maybe not enough” and can be found at https://news.osu.edu/news/2016/12/12/public-willing-to-pay-to-reduce-toxic-algae-but-maybe-not-enough/