
Export Licensing: Tips U.S. Exporters Shouldn’t Overlook
. His writings have appeared on the agency website, in digital trade press and in other media. Most of his 26-year career in communications at Commerce has been focused on trade issues. A native of Ohio, Mr. Cultice attended Bowling Green State University, and has a master’s degree from The Ohio State University in public relations/journalism.  

Students Face Off in Underwater Competition
in specially judged categories went to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; École de Technologie Supérieure; Texas A&M University; Washington State University; University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (Puerto Rico); San Diego Robotics 101; University of Alberta (Canada); Ohio State University; and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland).Other U.S. teams included: Amador Valley High School; Beaver Country Day School; California Institute of Technology; California State University, Fullerton; California State University, Los Angeles; Cornell University; Embry-Riddle

Severe Algal Bloom Predicted for Lake Erie
University’s National Center for Water Quality Research. “Last summer’s Toledo water crisis was a wake-up call to the serious nature of harmful algal blooms in America’s waters,” said Jeff Reutter, Ph.D., senior advisor to, and former director of, The Ohio State University’s Sea Grant program and Stone Laboratory. “This forecast once again focuses attention on this issue, and the urgent need to take action to address the problems caused by excessive amounts of nutrients from fertilizer, manure and sewage flowing into our lakes and streams.&rdquo

Teams Vie for $2m Ocean Health XPRIZE
Centre, a leading marine science research and technology institution. •Optode Team Austria (Graz, Austria), a team comprised of students and scientists from the Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry at the Graz University of Technology. •OSU FABE Sastry lab (Columbus, Ohio), a team of scientists and engineers from Ohio State University’s Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering. •pHFine Scale (Seaside, Calif.), a team of teenagers and young adults with expertise in designing and manufacturing pH instruments used off the coast of Australia
Swearingen Joins PMI Industries
including: market channel development services, automotive, construction and information technology. He is skilled in sales, marketing, sales channel development, territory management, as well as strategy creation and implementation. A Kent, Ohio resident, Swearingen is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Communications Services. He has been a member of the Construction Industry Coalition on Water Quality and the Maintenance Superintendents Association. pmiind.com  

Toxic Algal Bloom Predicted in Western Lake Erie
into Lake Erie, collected by the Heidelberg University’s National Center for Water Quality Research , and analysis of satellite data from the European Space Agency’s Envisat. In addition to the satellite monitoring of the lake, NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory , Ohio State University’s Sea Grant Program and Stone Laboratory, Heidelberg University, the University of Toledo , and Ohio EPA will be collecting measurements from the lake as the summer progresses. The goal of those collaborative efforts is to further refine the accuracy of this forecast’s