Water Quality Certification Workshops
2024 New Monitor and Recertification
This summer we will again partner with the Maine DEP in order to recertify volunteers around the state. We appreciate the travel as well as all of the work our volunteers perform. A special thank you to the local boat hosts who volunteer their time and gas, and enable us to perform regional trainings in addition to the training on Lake Auburn. The boat host program is vital to the success of ensuring all volunteers have the ability to become recertified.
General Guidance
For New Water Quality Monitors
For both new Secchi Water Transparency Monitors and new Secchi Water Transparency & Dissolved Oxygen Monitors, if you are interested in getting involved, please contact us using the form on this page. We offer many workshop sessions including some that may be in your area.
If you are interested in becoming a DO monitor, you must own or have access to a meter. That meter must also be certified. We send out information about annual certification of meters — our Meterfest event — starting every March.
It is highly recommended that if there is a monitor currently on your waterbody that you go out with them to see what the experience is like.
For Existing Water Quality Monitors
Thank you for your interest in collecting another summer of WQ data! Look for an email with information about summer trainings, and feel free to contact Jonnie at the office, 207-783-7733, to sign up for a 2024 summer recertification workshop. We ask that you please send us any completed data forms at least twice this season; we ask that you aim for June 30 and October 1st. If you have any questions, please contact us.
To register…
- As a completely new volunteer, please contact us using the form on this page. We will contact you by email with information about the trainings and you will need to attend one of the sessions that is labeled as “New and Recert”.
- As a current Secchi volunteer who would like to become certified in Dissolved Oxygen monitoring, please contact us at the LSM office at stewards@lakestewardsme.org, or call to speak with Jonnie at 207-783-7733. You will need to attend one of the sessions that is labeled as “New and Recert”.
- For current monitors who needs to participate in recertification, please contact us at the LSM office at stewards@lakestewardsme.org, or call to speak with Jonnie at 207-783-7733.
Schedule updated 2024-05-03
| Waterbody | County | MIDAS | New / Recert | Training Type | Workshop Date | Workshop Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantabacook | Waldo | 4832 | New / Recert | Secchi | 5/9/2024 | Mid-morning |
| Wilson (Acton) | York | 3920 | Recert | Secchi / DO / Baseline | 5/24/2024 | Mid Morning |
| Wilson (Acton) | York | 3920 | Recert | Secchi / DO / Baseline | 5/24/2024 | Late Morning |
| Biscay Pond | Lincoln | 5710 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO | 6/3/2024 | Afternoon |
| Ellis (Roxbury, Silver) | Oxford | 3504 | Recert | Secchi | 6/4/2024 | Late Morning |
| Green Lake (Ellsworth) | Hancock | 4294 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO | 6/6/2024 | Late Morning |
| Green Lake (Ellsworth) | Hancock | 4294 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO | 6/6/2024 | Afternoon |
| Long (Princeton) | Washington | 1286 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO / Baseline | 6/6/2024 | Late Afternoon |
| Tripp Pond | Androscoggin | 3758 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO | 6/11/2024 | Late Morning |
| Tripp Pond | Androscoggin | 3758 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO | 6/11/2024 | Afternoon |
| Great Pond (Belgrade) | Kennebec | 5274 | Recert | Secchi / DO | 6/13/2024 | Morning |
| Pushaw | Penobscot | 0080 | Recert | Secchi | 6/13/2024 | Late Morning |
| Echo Lake | Kennebec | 5814 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO | 6/17/2024 | Morning |
| Watchic | Cumberland | 5040 | Recert | Secchi / DO / Baseline | 6/18/2024 | Late Morning |
| Watchic | Cumberland | 5040 | Recert | Secchi / DO / Baseline | 6/18/2024 | Afternoon |
| Pennesseewassee | Oxford | 3434 | Recert | Secchi / DO / Baseline | 6/25/2024 | Late Morning |
| Megunticook | Knox | 4852 | Recert | Secchi / DO | 6/26/2024 | Late Morning |
| Wilson (Wilton) | Franklin | 3682 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO | 7/1/2024 | Late Morning |
| Wilson (Wilton) | Franklin | 3682 | Recert | Secchi / DO | 7/1/2024 | Late Morning |
| Smith Pond | Penobscot | 2012 | New | Secchi Only | 7/8/2024 | Late Morning |
| Nickerson Lake | Aroostook | 1036 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO | 7/12/2024 | Afternoon |
| Cross Lake | Aroostook | 1674 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO | 7/13/2024 | Morning |
| Auburn | Androscoggin | 3748 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO / Baseline | 7/16/2024 | Late Morning |
| Georges Pond | Hancock | 4406 | Recert | Secchi / DO | 7/25/2024 | Morning |
| Sebec | Piscataquis | 0848 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO | TBD 8/1/2024 Possible Date | TBD |
| Auburn | Androscoggin | 3748 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO / Baseline | 8/13/2024 | Late Morning |
| Portage Lake | Aroostook | 1602 | New / Recert | Secchi Only | 8/21/2024 | TBD |
| Auburn | Androscoggin | 3748 | New / Recert | Secchi / DO / Baseline | TBD | TBD |