16 results for tag: Secchi Dip-In

Lakes Appreciation Month 2022

You work and play on them. You drink from them. But do you really appreciate them? Growing population, development, and invasive species stress your local lakes, ponds, and reservoirs. All life needs water; let’s not take it for granted!

NALMS Internship Opportunities

NALMS is accepting applications for three internship opportunities: NALMS JEDI Internship The intern will work with the NALMS Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee to support the process of completing a 5-year plan for NALMS to use in incorporating JEDI into all facets of the organization. To achieve this goal the intern will focus their efforts in these areas: Internal Assessment Outreach Internal Planning and Strategy Symposium Planning The intern will take the lead on assessing previously collected information, and possible collection of further data, to help define this plan. The intern will have an integral ...

Lake Wilson Cleanup & Secchi Dip-in

Join us for a Lakes Appreciation Month celebration at Lake Wilson in Fayetteville! This will be a family-friendly event to cleanup the lake and participate in a citizen science water monitoring activity.  Check-in will begin at 9 AM at the pavilion. Multiple Cleanup Options! 1) On Water - Bring your own kayak or canoe 2) Shoreline - Bring your own waders 3) On Land - Bring yourself and your friends Cleanup supplies will be provided. Family outdoor gear raffle prizes after! Click Here to RSVP or text/call 479-750-8007

Lake Atalanta Cleanup & Secchi Dip-in

Join us for a Lakes Appreciation Month celebration at Lake Atalanta in Rogers! This will be a family-friendly event to cleanup the lake and participate in a citizen science water monitoring activity.  Check-in will begin at 6 PM at Clark Pavilion. Multiple Cleanup Options!  1) On Water - Bring your own kayak or canoe 2) Shoreline - Bring your own waders 3) On Land - Bring yourself and your friends Cleanup supplies will be provided Family outdoor gear raffle prizes after! Click Here to RSVP or text/call 479-750-8007

Secchi Dip-In Data Update

The 2021 Secchi Dip-In officially starts this week! WQX Upload Update NALMS is ready for this year's Lakes Appreciation Month and the Secchi Dip-In! In preparation, intern Leah Hicks spent the past few weeks quality-assuring data submissions in the Ambient Water Quality Monitoring System (AWQMS). A submission of all data from previous Dip-In events was made to the Federal Water Quality Exchange (WQX) and is now available for the public to view! A total of 10,589 results were uploaded, bringing the overall number of results in the AWQMS and WQX databases to 128,715 entries. There was also an addition of 15 new monitoring locations! Major contrib...

Lakes Appreciation Month 2021

You work and play on them. You drink from them. But do you really appreciate them? Growing population, development, and invasive species stress your local lakes, ponds, and reservoirs. All life needs water; let’s not take it for granted!

NALMS Internship Opportunities

NALMS is accepting applications for two summer 2021 internship opportunities: NALMS Policy Internship The intern will work with the NALMS Policy and Communications Committees to support the process of writing white papers and developing policy recommendations regarding the following topics: Climate Change Impacts on Lake Ecosystems, Lake Watershed Management, Cyanobacteria Management, and Urban Lake Management. An integral component of the internship will be taking the lead in writing a white paper and developing policy recommendations regarding one of the topics listed above or a new topic agreed upon by the intern and their ...

2020 Secchi Dip-In Update

With support from a USEPA Exchange Network grant, NALMS partnered with the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, Gold Systems, and Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies to upgrade the Secchi Dip-In database using the Ambient Water Quality Monitoring System (AWQMS) and Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) Lake Observer mobile app. These existing data entry and database management tools have been customized for Dip-In use and to make data publicly available through the AWQMS database, USEPA’s Water Quality Exchange (WQX), and the Water Quality Portal (WQP), a water quality data clearinghouse. NALMS launched the new AWQMS Dip-In database ...

NALMS Supports Secchi Day on Beaver Lake

On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Beaver Water District held their 14th annual Secchi Day on Beaver Lake! We were very excited for NALMS to have such a significant presence at this year's event. Our President, Sara Peel, was able to attend to show our support. In addition, the NALMS/Secchi Dip-In booth was manned by our Past President, Reed Green, and past Region 6 Director, Brad Hufhines. This year's event was the largest ever with over 800 participants. This number represents participants at the festivity (723), plus a record number of volunteer science teams (38) that collected water quality data, including secchi depth and water samples for ...

Looking Back on Lakes Appreciation Month 2019

As it does every year, we blink … and Lakes Appreciation Month, celebrated annually in July, is over! With ever-growing threats like climate change, invasive species, growing population, and more … it’s never been a more important time to bring the issues that affect our freshwater resources to the forefront. All life needs water; let’s not take it for granted! Highlights from Lakes Appreciation Month 2019 include: Our members and supporters got the word out for Lakes Appreciation Month by hosting lake shoreline clean-ups, Lake Appreciation community days, and educational Secchi Dip-In events. Our President, Sara Peel, ...