How Africa’s Lake Victoria offers a glimpse of Lake Erie’s future.
A tropical lake in Central Africa might not seem like the first place you would look to gain insights into North America’s Great Lakes. But that’s just what researchers from Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Ohio have been doing for the past three years.
Lake Victoria is the largest of Africa’s Great Lakes, the second largest in the world after Lake Superior. George Bullerjahn, an ecologist at BGSU, says Lake Victoria — situated between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania — makes a very good surrogate for studying harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, both now and to predict what the future might hold. Read more in Great Lakes Now.