Zoom-ing Through Research Projects
Most summers, Stone Lab’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Scholarship Program brings a select group of students to Gibraltar Island to conduct original research with faculty advisors from universities across Ohio. They study algal blooms, birds, or fish, and get hands-on experience of what it’s like to be a working Lake Erie researcher.
But 2020 wasn’t like most summers. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all in-person classes and workshops at Stone Lab had to be canceled, and staff and REU supervisors worked hard to provide an alternative to already accepted REU students. As with so many other things that year, the answer was going virtual.