Journey with WKSU reporter Karen Schaefer as she explores the environmental challenges facing Lake Erie and its people.  Schaefer is circum-navigating the lake with a group of journalists as a fellow of the Great Waters Institute, a program of the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources.  Over the next week, the group will explore:

• a controversy over regulating lake levels and how that could impact Lake Erie
• how large animal farming operations are impacting the watershed
• research on dead zones and algae growth in Lake Erie
• modernization of the port of Cleveland
• new hydropower projects at Niagra Falls
• an Ontario wind farm on the shores of Lake Erie
• impacts of climate change on the lake
• US/Canadian division of the annual fish catch
• habitat loss on the Lake Erie Islands
• bird migrations and cormorant populations