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11th International GAP Meeting

‘ErieHAB 2022’
Coming Soon in August 2022
Hosted by Bowling Green State University
at The Ohio State University Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory
South Bass Island, Lake Erie, Ohio

GAP 11: COVID-19 announcement

To all GAP participants:

Due to the current COVID-19 outbreak, the Organizers have agreed to move the event to August 2022. We will keep you informed of registration dates, travel information and Working Group plans as they develop.  While we are sad to reach this decision, we very much look forward to working with you next year!

Best regards and stay well,

George, Justin and Mike

The research activities of GAP 11 will build on academic and agency partnerships that have developed in the wake of the 2014 Toledo Water Crisis, in which > 400,000 people were denied access to potable water due to a toxic Microcystis spp. bloom in Lake Erie. Work completed during the 10-day GAP will complement significant ongoing research aimed at understanding the drivers of cHAB formation, persistence and decline.

Research will be conducted at the facilities afforded by the Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory on Lake Erie, Ohio. The Stone lab is a field campus of The Ohio State University

GAP11 themes – ‘ErieHAB 2022’

  • To determine environmental drivers of cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom (cHAB) community dynamics and toxin production.
  • To characterize the biogeochemistry of sinkhole microbial communities unique to the Laurentian Great Lakes
  • To assess and optimize new biophysical approaches to measure primary productivity
  • We plan to offer participants the opportunity to join 3 projects loosely connected by the ErieHAB theme.

Presenting Speakers

Hans Paerl
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Steve Wilhelm
University of Tennessee

Eddie Herdendorf
former Director of Stone Lab

Rex Lowe
Bowling Green State University
(Emeritus and co-instructs the Algal Identification course at Stone Lab)

Heather Raymond
Ohio State University Water Resources Coordinator

About GAP

GAP organizes periodic Meetings that bring scientists and students of disparate backgrounds and experience together to work in diverse aquatic environments. The Meetings involve hands-on, joint field and laboratory experiments to which participants contribute state-of-the-art equipment and multiple methodologies for estimating primary productivity. This facilitates sharing of knowledge in an effective and attractive way.

GAP arose in 1980 from discussions during the SIL Congress in Kyoto. After a long day of plenaries, Zvy Dubinsky, Max Tilzer, Mitsuro Sakamoto and Tom Berman discussed possibilities for a “different kind of meeting” and the idea of GAP took shape. The GAP format is a hands-on Meeting, focusing on topics relevant to measuring aquatic primary production, intended to attract both freshwater and marine scientists. Participants bring cutting edge science equipment and methodology to actually run experiments that are later published in a peer-reviewed journal. Attendees are a mix of distinguished elder practitioners, younger scientists and students to enhance exchange of experience and expertise. In the 35 years since inception, there have been 10 such GAP Meetings.

Previous GAP Meetings

Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors ($10,000+)

The Ohio State UniversityOhio Sea Grant College ProgramNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Gold Sponsor ($5,000-9,999)

Silver Sponsor ($2,500-4,999)

Bronze Sponsor ($1,000-2,499)

Sponsor ($500-999)

Updated: 09/22/2021 09:30AM