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115 scientists gathered to discuss lake management

BOWLING GREEN — Meet Rick Stumpf.

He’s a mild-mannered East Coast scientist who a few weeks from now will give the federal government’s 2015 western Lake Erie algae forecast, based on the best available science developed to make such predictions.

“We’re getting close, but it’s too early right now,” Mr. Stumpf, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oceanographer, told The Blade during…