Arthur Evenchik
Lori B. Scheid
Sarah Bailey
Amber Matheson
Kristin Ohlson
Jared Akerstrom
Daniel Milner
Dale Rothenberg
Mike Sands
Additional photography by Matt Beckwith, Mary Carson, Justin Chaffin, Kevin Dicus, Eliza Kaltenberg, Frank Lanza and Gerald Matisoff
A natural-color Landsat 8 image, taken on August 1, 2014, shows the toxic algal bloom in western Lake Erie that forced the closure of Toledo’s water treatment plant August 2-4, 2014. NASA image courtesy of Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.