Stone Lab Water Quality Lab Gets Ready for Its Close-Up
Stone Lab’s new Algal & Water Quality Lab is housed in the Research Building on South Bass Island, allowing testing to be performed right on Lake Erie. Among other projects, the lab will run analyses for the Ohio EPA, who funded part of the equipment purchases.
Last year already saw a number of improvements at Stone Laboratory, but renovations and updates continue on South Bass and Gibraltar Islands. The newest addition to Stone Lab’s facilities will be an Algae & Water Quality Lab, housed in the Stone Lab Research Building and slated to open this summer.
Adding significantly to Stone Lab’s research capabilities, the Water Quality Lab will offer analysis services for a wide range of nutrients, cyanobacteria toxins, and suspended solids. Outside researchers will be able to request these tests from Stone Lab staff, and summer students in Stone Lab’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program will also be allowed to use the lab for their research projects.