Volunteer Quick Links Training and certification are central to the work we perform at Lake Stewards of Maine. All volunteer water quality monitors and invasive plant patrollers must be certified in order for their data to be shared publicly. High-quality, replicable data collection is essential to ensuring scientific credibility. This allows us—and other researchers—to better […]
eDNA Quick Links Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a method of testing for the presence of specific species or groups of organisms in a background sample. Unlike traditional DNA testing, eDNA can identify organisms that are not directly present in a sample but have left genetic material behind or free-floating in the water. eDNA is diluted
Lake Stewards of Maine Live Water Quality Monitoring Data
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Maine’s Water Quality Data Quick Links Distribution of Water Quality Data The data illustrated here are based on the long-term means (average of all the historical annual averages) for each parameter measured in Maine lakes. Every effort has been made to ensure that the data are representative. Data Source: LSM and Maine DEP This page
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Secchi Simulator Quick Links The simulator is designed to help you recognize what to watch for as a Secchi disc moves through the water column. For a reliable reading, lower the disc until it just disappears, then raise it slowly until it reappears. Lower it once more, carefully, until it disappears again. This second disappearance
Cyanobacteria Monitoring Quick Links Citizen lake scientists are helping detect cyanobacteria blooms. Want to help? Please check out these three excellent programs available through EPA! BloomWatch – Do you notice that a lake suddenly turned the color of pea soup or a blue-green paint spill? Do you see green clumps, flakes or filaments floating in a
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Understanding Water Quality Indicators Quick Links Transparency, Polluted Stormwater Runnoff, and Algae There are many imminent threats to Maine lakes. Near the top of the list, and perhaps the most pervasive, is the potential for lakes to become nutrient enriched and more biologically productive due to development in lake watersheds. This condition is often characterized
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LSM Webinar 20210611 Mountain Ponds as Sentinels of Change in the Northeast https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/562847013/6a6aa1786b Quick Links Presented by Dr. Rachel Hovel Mountain ponds in the northeastern US generally have few direct anthropogenic impacts, so may act as a regional background signal for changing atmospheric deposition and climate change. This talk will present long-term trends on changing
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Healthy Vegetated Buffers – Healthy Lakes! Working with Mother Nature to Protect the Waters of Maine https://vimeo.com/445920875 Quick Links Roberta Hill, LSM Invasive Aquatic Species Coordinator. Roberta will return to her “roots” in lake protection, extolling the many virtues and benefits of vegetated buffers.
Water Quality Technical Support Session: A Discussion of Flushing Rates https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/525697766/679f9e7db7 Quick Links A technical discussion with LSM WQ monitors, primarily focused upon the phenomena of watershed flushing.
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