Shoreline Health

Note – this forum was held in public at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center in Erie, Pennsylvania. There is no recorded version available.

April 18, 2016  

The spring 2016 forum covered a broad set of topics such as water diversion in the Great Lakes; how commissions and organizations Pennsylvania DEP is involved with address environmental issues; how Pennsylvania utilizes funding it receives from federal and state sources; new methods of online interaction with spatial data; projects that evaluate and monitor erosion along Pennsylvania’s shorelines; monitoring of the health of Lake Erie, and current nutrient reduction actions.

• An Introduction to Coastal Science in Pennsylvania
  Jake Moore, PA DEP
• Assessing Pennsylvania’s Lake Tributaries
  Nate Irwin, PA DEP 
• Great Lakes Governance: Compacts and Commissions
  Tim Bruno, PA DEP 
• Great Lakes Integrated Services: Gathering Information and Maximizing Data and Web Access
  Sean Rafferty, Pennsylvania Sea Grant 
• The Dead Zone, or the Role of Nutrients in the Cultural Eutrophication of Lake Erie
  Jim Grazio, PA DEP