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2021 New Monitor and Recertification Process
We have recently updated our plans concerning summer 2021 water quality training and certification process.
For New Water Quality Monitors
For both new Secchi Water Transparency Monitors and Secchi Water Transparency & Dissolved Oxygen Monitors, if you have not already been in correspondence with Tristan, please completed this form.
For Existing Water Quality Monitors
For existing Water Quality Monitors, both volunteers and professionals, please check your email client for a message from stewards@lakestewardsme.org, the subject was “LSM – Water Quality Monitor Recertification Process”. If you have not received this, please contact us.
Water Quality Check-In Sessions
LSM staff are conducting water-quality-focused discussion sessions once a month during the 2021 summer. These check-in sessions (via Zoom) are intended as a way for volunteers to discuss any questions or issues they may have pertaining to their lake or monitoring work. For those with insufficient bandwidth for online video conferencing, there is the option to call in (phone information will be included in your registration confirmation email). These sessions will be informal, and will provide folks with an opportunity to speak directly with LSM staff about concerns, observed phenomena, or other broader water quality topics.
A few examples of the types of topics that may be discussed include, but are not limited to:
- Observations of recent conditions on/in a lake;
- Problems or questions regarding volunteer monitoring equipment;
- Any issues with quality assurance;
- Discussion / interpretation of recently collected (or historical) lake data;
- Any unusual phenomena recently observed; and,
- Changes in protocol due to the pandemic and other broader social issues as it related to lake monitoring and science.
You are welcome to attend as many of the sessions as you like throughout the summer. We will be there!
The sessions are currently scheduled to take place from 10-11:30 AM. Moderators will have the option to continue individual sessions beyond this point or conclude earlier depending upon participant interest. In addition, we will make the decision to offer additional sessions if there is a specific group that is interested in meeting or an additional time that will meet a persons schedule. If this is of interest to you, please send an email to Tristan@lakestewardsME.org.
March 31st at 10:00 AM
April 26th at 10:00 AM
Please be sure to pre-register for each session you are planning to attend
Everything That You Might Want to Know About Lake Flushing Rates
LSM Technical Support Webinar with special guest Jeff Dennis
One of the most significant natural characteristics of a lake is the rate at which the volume of water in the lake is “flushed”, (aka: hydrologic retention period) over time. This phenomenon varies from one lake to the next, and it influences, among other factors, the vulnerability of a lake to a decline over time.
Join us for an in-depth discussion on this topic, presented by long-time Maine DEP Biologist, Jeff Dennis. Following Jeff’s presentation, there will be an opportunity for questions and answers, as well as an extended technical discussion with Jeff, for those who are interested.