Research in the Press
MLive (Michigan) – Once released, goldfish can become freshwater troublemakers 5.5.2026
KWGN-TV (Denver) – Daybreak 8A segment 5.5.2026
WEWS-TV 5 (Cleveland) – Goldfish Can Hurt Freshwater Ecosystems 4.29.2026
WTVG-13 (Toledo) – Invasive Goldfish Reshape Ecosystems 4.29.2026
Spectrum News (Ohio/NY) – UToledo Study Unveils Invasive Goldfish are Reshaping Ecosystems 4.29.2026
The Blade – Little Fish, Big Impact: UToledo Study Finds Invasive Goldfish Affect Lakes 4.29.2026
Fish Bio – Released goldfish can rapidly disrupt lake ecosystems, study finds 4.29.2026
Phys.org – From pet to pest: Research warns invasive goldfish are reshaping freshwater ecosystems 4.29.2026
Eurasia Review – Invasive Goldfish Are Reshaping Freshwater Ecosystems
Bright Surf – From pet to pest: UToledo research warns invasive goldfish are reshaping freshwater ecosystems 4.29.2026
StudyFinds – Unwanted Pet Goldfish Are Growing Into Lake-Wrecking Monsters 4.29.2026
Archyde – Invasive Goldfish: How Pet Release Harms Lakes & Ecosystems 4.29.2026
AOL – Your Goldfish Could Flip an Entire Lake’s Food Chain 4.29.2026
Academic Jobs – University of Toledo Study: Invasive Goldfish Trigger Rapid Ecological Collapse in Lakes 4.29.2026
KOMU-TV 8 (Columbia–Jefferson City, Missouri) – Invasive Goldfish Can Reshape Ecosystems 4.29.2026
Columbia Missourian – Pet Goldfish destroy lake ecosystems 4.29.2026
Columbia Daily Tribune/Springfield News-Leader – Released goldfish can rapidly disrupt lake ecosystems, study finds 4.29.2026
Jefferson News Tribune – Pet goldfish can destroy lake ecosystems, MU researchers say 4.29.2026
KWGN (CW) – Released goldfish can rapidly disrupt lake ecosystems, study finds 4.29.2026
Futurity – Releasing goldfish into the wild can mess up ecosystems 4.29.2026
SciTechDaily – Scientists Warn That This Common Pet Fish Can Wreck Entire Ecosystems 4.29.2026
Nautilus – The Environmental Havoc a Pet Goldfish Can Cause 4.29.2026
Vice – Flushed Pet Goldfish Are Growing Into Lake-Destroying Monsters 4.29.2026
Life Technology – Goldfish Impact on Freshwater Ecosystems. 4.29.2026
Vet-Magazin.de (German) – Vom Haustier zum Schädling: Invasive Goldfische verändern Süßwasser-Ökosysteme (Translation: "From pet to pest: Invasive goldfish change freshwater ecosystems."). 4.29.2026
FOX Weather – Pets to pests: Goldfish found to be harmful to natural freshwater ecosystems 4.29.2026
News 5 Cleveland – Goldfish Can Hurt Freshwater Ecosystems 4.29.2026
Earth.com – Goldfish released into the wild can quickly damage entire lake ecosystems
13 ABC – Invasive Goldfish Reshape Ecosystems 4.29.2026
Spectrum News – Study unveils invasive goldfish are reshaping ecosystems 4.29.2026
Cleveland.com – Winter Road Salt: How Much is Too Much For Ohio’s Environment? 2.2.2026
13 ABC (Toledo, Ohio) – Rising Salts in our Fresh Waters. 1.15.2026
El Confidencial (Spain, in Spanish) – Salt less, 'danke'! The German recipe for melting the snow that we should copy. 1.14.2026
WFFT-TV Fox 55 (Fort Wayne, Indiana) – Reintroducing Lake Sturgeon to the Maumee. 10.1.2025
13ABC (Toledo, Ohio) – Early research shows an ancient fish is making a comeback in local waters. 8.21.2025
The Cool Down – Researchers make promising discoveries after reintroducing near-extinct species into natural habitat: 'It's a really good sign.' 7.29.2025
Phys.org – Promising first-year survival rate among Maumee River sturgeon. 7.3.2025
NBC-WRAL (Raleigh, North Carolina) – Salt Brine Threatens Wildlife and Waterways. 2.24.2025
13 ABC Marketplace – Studying the Ecological Impacts of Road Salts. 2.14.2025
The Nine 13ABC – Learn to Be a Smart Salter. 1.30.2025
WBTV Charlotte, NC – Negative Impacts of Using Salt for Deicing. 1.8.2025
13ABC Toledo – Project Planet: Balancing salt pollution reduction while keeping roads clean this winter. 12.18.2024
The Washington Post – Road salt may hurt vital link in freshwater food chain. 8.17.2024
Phys.org – Environmental scientists examine effects of salt pollution across generations of zooplankton. 8.14.2024
WTOL 11 News – Mayflies on the move: The nuisance with an ecological benefit. 5.22.2024
Urban Milwaukee – How Salt is Polluting the State’s Water. 3.29.2024
The Lemonadist – Salting the Earth. 3.26.2024
Cleveland.com – Those salt piles we dump on our snowy Ohio roads are showing up in freshwater Lake Erie. 1.26.2024
New Scientist – Grit salt on our roads is killing freshwater wildlife. What can we do? 1.16.2024
The Washington Post – Scientists have found a ‘sleeping giant’ of environmental problems: Earth is getting saltier. 10.31.2023
The Blade – Mayflies at the Mayfly: Insect wave in full swing in Toledo. Interview about the ecological aspects of the annual Mayfly hatch from Lake Erie. 6.24.2023
The Blade – Maumee River Project Aims to Restore Ancient Fish. Coverage on Lake Sturgeon reintroduction project led by my lab. 2.25.2023
UToledo News Story – UToledo Works With Local, State Partners to Reduce Road Salt Use This Winter 2.7.2023
NBC 24 Television Interview – How does salt used for de-icing impact freshwater systems? 1.26.2023
13 ABC Television Interview – Salting roads impacts freshwater supply. 1.25.2023
Audubon Magazine Article (Interview) – Slippery Slope: The Road Salt Conundrum by Shantal Riley (writer/reporter). Winter 2022 issue. (December)
Inverse – “50 Years Ago, The Clean Water Act Promised To Fix America’s Water. Did It Succeed?” Interview about America’s water quality. 10.18.2022
The Blade – “Baby Lake Sturgeon Released Into the Maumee River Doing Quite Well” Coverage on Lake Sturgeon reintroduction project led by my lab. 9.4.2022
Interview with The Blade – “The Great Challenges of the Great Lakes” 7.26.2022
Yale Environment 360, Yale School for the Environment, Yale University – “Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity.” Interview on the impacts of salt pollution on global freshwater supplies 5.10.2022
Water Canada – Excessive chloride use assaulting lakes and rivers 3.9.2022
Science Alert – Road Salt's Harm to Freshwater Ecosystems Could Ripple Out to All of Us 3.6.2022
Interview with Thomas Battle, Meteorologist, WBRE-TV (Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA) 3.3.2022
Inverse – America’s obsession with road salt is hurting freshwater ecosystems — and our drinking water 2.28.2022
NewsBreak USA Today – “Road salt triggering 'massive' harm to US lakes, contaminating drinking water, studies warn” 2.27.2022
Salon – “Road salt runoff is making freshwater lakes inhospitable” 2.24.2022
Truthout – “As Winter Storms Descend, De-Icing Chemicals Are Threatening Freshwater Lakes” 2.24.2022
EurekAlert! (AAAS) – “Government guidelines across North America, Europe fail to protect lakes from salt pollution” 2.21.2022
Popular Science – “There’s a better way to use rock salt on snow.” 2.5.2022
KCBS Radio in San Francisco (USA) – Live radio news interview about the impacts of salt pollution. 1.10.2022
The New York Times (National/International News) – News story covered by The Times on the impacts of road deicing salts. 1.7.2022
Boston.com – 1.7.2022
The Hill – “Road salt contamination of freshwater 'requires immediate attention,' warns scientist” 1.6.2022
The Washington Post (National/International News) – News story covered by the Post on the impacts of road deicing salts. 1.3.2022
Popular Mechanics, Florida News Times, Sentinel Tribune, Lab Manager, La Stampa, MSN (Norway), la Repubblica (Italy), and other sources (online news). 12.21-28.2021
ABC 13 News Interview (local news) – Television interview about the impacts of road deicing salts. 12.14.2021
NBC 24 News Interview (local news) – Television interview about the impacts of road deicing salts. 12.13.2021
EurekAlert! (AAAS), SCIENMAG, Phys.org, Mirage, Water Online, Environmental News Network, and Bioengineer.org. 12.9-14.2021
13 ABC News Interview (local news) – Interviewed by local news station about ongoing project on lake sturgeon 10.1.2021
Popular Science Interview – Interviewed by Popular Science as a subject matter expert on a paper published on freshwater salinization 4.14.2021
Salon News – Road salt is imperiling aquatic ecosystems. It doesn’t have to. 3.13.2021 (coverage of multiple peer-reviewed publications)
Undark News – Road salt is imperiling aquatic ecosystems. It doesn’t have to. 3.11.2021 (coverage of multiple peer-reviewed publications)
Interview with freelance science journalist Casey Crownhart – Environmental impacts of deicers. 2.23.2021 (article forthcoming)
WTOL Interview – Beet juice: A magic bullet or a hidden danger in snow removal? (Local News Station, Toledo, Ohio) 2.13.2020
Science Daily, Environmental News Network, and a few other news outlets covered our paper: Concurrent increases and decreases of epilimnetic water quality in an oligotrophic lake over 37 years recently published in Limnology and Oceanography 11.1.2019
ScienceDaily – Article highlighting our publication in Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society on the ecological implications of evolutionary responses to freshwater salinization 12.3.2018
Scientific American – Interviewed by Scientific American about the impacts of road salts in freshwater ecosystems 12.6.2018
National Academy of Sciences – Article in PNAS on our road salt research as part of the Jefferson Project 1.30.2018
Associated Press (AP) – Interview by the AP on the effects of road salt salinization, which was picked up by several media outlets including the New York Post
ENSIA Magazine, University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment – Highlighting several of my and my colleagues’ research papers on road salt salinization
Smithsonian Magazine – Highlighting our research on the impacts of road salt in freshwater ecosystems: Article
EurekAlert! (AAAS) – Highlighting a paper of ours on the evolution of tolerance to road salt in zooplankton
Science – Feature on The Jefferson Project at Lake George
Motherboard – Features The Jefferson Project at Lake George for the development of the first high-frequency, smart-sensor network used to monitor aquatic ecosystems
MLive (Michigan) – Once released, goldfish can become freshwater troublemakers 5.5.2026
KWGN-TV (Denver) – Daybreak 8A segment 5.5.2026
WEWS-TV 5 (Cleveland) – Goldfish Can Hurt Freshwater Ecosystems 4.29.2026
WTVG-13 (Toledo) – Invasive Goldfish Reshape Ecosystems 4.29.2026
Spectrum News (Ohio/NY) – UToledo Study Unveils Invasive Goldfish are Reshaping Ecosystems 4.29.2026
The Blade – Little Fish, Big Impact: UToledo Study Finds Invasive Goldfish Affect Lakes 4.29.2026
Fish Bio – Released goldfish can rapidly disrupt lake ecosystems, study finds 4.29.2026
Phys.org – From pet to pest: Research warns invasive goldfish are reshaping freshwater ecosystems 4.29.2026
Eurasia Review – Invasive Goldfish Are Reshaping Freshwater Ecosystems
Bright Surf – From pet to pest: UToledo research warns invasive goldfish are reshaping freshwater ecosystems 4.29.2026
StudyFinds – Unwanted Pet Goldfish Are Growing Into Lake-Wrecking Monsters 4.29.2026
Archyde – Invasive Goldfish: How Pet Release Harms Lakes & Ecosystems 4.29.2026
AOL – Your Goldfish Could Flip an Entire Lake’s Food Chain 4.29.2026
Academic Jobs – University of Toledo Study: Invasive Goldfish Trigger Rapid Ecological Collapse in Lakes 4.29.2026
KOMU-TV 8 (Columbia–Jefferson City, Missouri) – Invasive Goldfish Can Reshape Ecosystems 4.29.2026
Columbia Missourian – Pet Goldfish destroy lake ecosystems 4.29.2026
Columbia Daily Tribune/Springfield News-Leader – Released goldfish can rapidly disrupt lake ecosystems, study finds 4.29.2026
Jefferson News Tribune – Pet goldfish can destroy lake ecosystems, MU researchers say 4.29.2026
KWGN (CW) – Released goldfish can rapidly disrupt lake ecosystems, study finds 4.29.2026
Futurity – Releasing goldfish into the wild can mess up ecosystems 4.29.2026
SciTechDaily – Scientists Warn That This Common Pet Fish Can Wreck Entire Ecosystems 4.29.2026
Nautilus – The Environmental Havoc a Pet Goldfish Can Cause 4.29.2026
Vice – Flushed Pet Goldfish Are Growing Into Lake-Destroying Monsters 4.29.2026
Life Technology – Goldfish Impact on Freshwater Ecosystems. 4.29.2026
Vet-Magazin.de (German) – Vom Haustier zum Schädling: Invasive Goldfische verändern Süßwasser-Ökosysteme (Translation: "From pet to pest: Invasive goldfish change freshwater ecosystems."). 4.29.2026
FOX Weather – Pets to pests: Goldfish found to be harmful to natural freshwater ecosystems 4.29.2026
News 5 Cleveland – Goldfish Can Hurt Freshwater Ecosystems 4.29.2026
Earth.com – Goldfish released into the wild can quickly damage entire lake ecosystems
13 ABC – Invasive Goldfish Reshape Ecosystems 4.29.2026
Spectrum News – Study unveils invasive goldfish are reshaping ecosystems 4.29.2026
Cleveland.com – Winter Road Salt: How Much is Too Much For Ohio’s Environment? 2.2.2026
13 ABC (Toledo, Ohio) – Rising Salts in our Fresh Waters. 1.15.2026
El Confidencial (Spain, in Spanish) – Salt less, 'danke'! The German recipe for melting the snow that we should copy. 1.14.2026
WFFT-TV Fox 55 (Fort Wayne, Indiana) – Reintroducing Lake Sturgeon to the Maumee. 10.1.2025
13ABC (Toledo, Ohio) – Early research shows an ancient fish is making a comeback in local waters. 8.21.2025
The Cool Down – Researchers make promising discoveries after reintroducing near-extinct species into natural habitat: 'It's a really good sign.' 7.29.2025
Phys.org – Promising first-year survival rate among Maumee River sturgeon. 7.3.2025
NBC-WRAL (Raleigh, North Carolina) – Salt Brine Threatens Wildlife and Waterways. 2.24.2025
13 ABC Marketplace – Studying the Ecological Impacts of Road Salts. 2.14.2025
The Nine 13ABC – Learn to Be a Smart Salter. 1.30.2025
WBTV Charlotte, NC – Negative Impacts of Using Salt for Deicing. 1.8.2025
13ABC Toledo – Project Planet: Balancing salt pollution reduction while keeping roads clean this winter. 12.18.2024
The Washington Post – Road salt may hurt vital link in freshwater food chain. 8.17.2024
Phys.org – Environmental scientists examine effects of salt pollution across generations of zooplankton. 8.14.2024
WTOL 11 News – Mayflies on the move: The nuisance with an ecological benefit. 5.22.2024
Urban Milwaukee – How Salt is Polluting the State’s Water. 3.29.2024
The Lemonadist – Salting the Earth. 3.26.2024
Cleveland.com – Those salt piles we dump on our snowy Ohio roads are showing up in freshwater Lake Erie. 1.26.2024
New Scientist – Grit salt on our roads is killing freshwater wildlife. What can we do? 1.16.2024
The Washington Post – Scientists have found a ‘sleeping giant’ of environmental problems: Earth is getting saltier. 10.31.2023
The Blade – Mayflies at the Mayfly: Insect wave in full swing in Toledo. Interview about the ecological aspects of the annual Mayfly hatch from Lake Erie. 6.24.2023
The Blade – Maumee River Project Aims to Restore Ancient Fish. Coverage on Lake Sturgeon reintroduction project led by my lab. 2.25.2023
UToledo News Story – UToledo Works With Local, State Partners to Reduce Road Salt Use This Winter 2.7.2023
NBC 24 Television Interview – How does salt used for de-icing impact freshwater systems? 1.26.2023
13 ABC Television Interview – Salting roads impacts freshwater supply. 1.25.2023
Audubon Magazine Article (Interview) – Slippery Slope: The Road Salt Conundrum by Shantal Riley (writer/reporter). Winter 2022 issue. (December)
Inverse – “50 Years Ago, The Clean Water Act Promised To Fix America’s Water. Did It Succeed?” Interview about America’s water quality. 10.18.2022
The Blade – “Baby Lake Sturgeon Released Into the Maumee River Doing Quite Well” Coverage on Lake Sturgeon reintroduction project led by my lab. 9.4.2022
Interview with The Blade – “The Great Challenges of the Great Lakes” 7.26.2022
Yale Environment 360, Yale School for the Environment, Yale University – “Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity.” Interview on the impacts of salt pollution on global freshwater supplies 5.10.2022
Water Canada – Excessive chloride use assaulting lakes and rivers 3.9.2022
Science Alert – Road Salt's Harm to Freshwater Ecosystems Could Ripple Out to All of Us 3.6.2022
Interview with Thomas Battle, Meteorologist, WBRE-TV (Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA) 3.3.2022
Inverse – America’s obsession with road salt is hurting freshwater ecosystems — and our drinking water 2.28.2022
NewsBreak USA Today – “Road salt triggering 'massive' harm to US lakes, contaminating drinking water, studies warn” 2.27.2022
Salon – “Road salt runoff is making freshwater lakes inhospitable” 2.24.2022
Truthout – “As Winter Storms Descend, De-Icing Chemicals Are Threatening Freshwater Lakes” 2.24.2022
EurekAlert! (AAAS) – “Government guidelines across North America, Europe fail to protect lakes from salt pollution” 2.21.2022
Popular Science – “There’s a better way to use rock salt on snow.” 2.5.2022
KCBS Radio in San Francisco (USA) – Live radio news interview about the impacts of salt pollution. 1.10.2022
The New York Times (National/International News) – News story covered by The Times on the impacts of road deicing salts. 1.7.2022
Boston.com – 1.7.2022
The Hill – “Road salt contamination of freshwater 'requires immediate attention,' warns scientist” 1.6.2022
The Washington Post (National/International News) – News story covered by the Post on the impacts of road deicing salts. 1.3.2022
Popular Mechanics, Florida News Times, Sentinel Tribune, Lab Manager, La Stampa, MSN (Norway), la Repubblica (Italy), and other sources (online news). 12.21-28.2021
ABC 13 News Interview (local news) – Television interview about the impacts of road deicing salts. 12.14.2021
NBC 24 News Interview (local news) – Television interview about the impacts of road deicing salts. 12.13.2021
EurekAlert! (AAAS), SCIENMAG, Phys.org, Mirage, Water Online, Environmental News Network, and Bioengineer.org. 12.9-14.2021
13 ABC News Interview (local news) – Interviewed by local news station about ongoing project on lake sturgeon 10.1.2021
Popular Science Interview – Interviewed by Popular Science as a subject matter expert on a paper published on freshwater salinization 4.14.2021
Salon News – Road salt is imperiling aquatic ecosystems. It doesn’t have to. 3.13.2021 (coverage of multiple peer-reviewed publications)
Undark News – Road salt is imperiling aquatic ecosystems. It doesn’t have to. 3.11.2021 (coverage of multiple peer-reviewed publications)
Interview with freelance science journalist Casey Crownhart – Environmental impacts of deicers. 2.23.2021 (article forthcoming)
WTOL Interview – Beet juice: A magic bullet or a hidden danger in snow removal? (Local News Station, Toledo, Ohio) 2.13.2020
Science Daily, Environmental News Network, and a few other news outlets covered our paper: Concurrent increases and decreases of epilimnetic water quality in an oligotrophic lake over 37 years recently published in Limnology and Oceanography 11.1.2019
ScienceDaily – Article highlighting our publication in Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society on the ecological implications of evolutionary responses to freshwater salinization 12.3.2018
Scientific American – Interviewed by Scientific American about the impacts of road salts in freshwater ecosystems 12.6.2018
National Academy of Sciences – Article in PNAS on our road salt research as part of the Jefferson Project 1.30.2018
Associated Press (AP) – Interview by the AP on the effects of road salt salinization, which was picked up by several media outlets including the New York Post
ENSIA Magazine, University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment – Highlighting several of my and my colleagues’ research papers on road salt salinization
Smithsonian Magazine – Highlighting our research on the impacts of road salt in freshwater ecosystems: Article
EurekAlert! (AAAS) – Highlighting a paper of ours on the evolution of tolerance to road salt in zooplankton
Science – Feature on The Jefferson Project at Lake George
Motherboard – Features The Jefferson Project at Lake George for the development of the first high-frequency, smart-sensor network used to monitor aquatic ecosystems
