Monday, March 24, 2014

University of Michigan's Growing Strength in Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Algal bloom in the Great Lakes
Photo by Tom Archer

Greg Dick, of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and colleagues have been awarded funds by the University of Michigan's Water Center to study harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes.

The project will support 11 researchers from five U-M units and a local federal agency. It will bring state-of-the-art technologies from genomics, chemistry and ecology to study blooms that are a global threat to freshwater ecosystems and human health.

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