Lake Champlain Sea Grant webinar on Wednesday February 22 at noon: Improving water quality assessment in Lake Champlain

[Aude Lochet]

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*Lake Champlain Sea Grant Research Webinar*

Join us for the February 22 research presentation in our spring webinar
series!

*Methodology Matters - Modifying the Vermont Lay Monitoring Program to
Improve Lake Assessment*

*Date/Time: *Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

*Location: *Zoom (registration required). *REGISTER HERE
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JFTp7SiLToCY042vpnfU7A>*.

*Speaker:* Mark Mitchell, Lake Champlain Sea Grant

*Description: *The Vermont Lay Monitoring Program (LMP) trains and equips
volunteers (or Lay Monitors) to conduct periodic lake water quality
sampling from their boat using quality-assured methods. Since the program's
inception in 1979, the principal goals have remained the same: to establish
baseline water quality conditions; to track long-term nutrient enrichment
and assess monitoring data following Vermont Water Quality Standards; and
to teach lakeshore homeowners and lake users about lake ecology and
stewardship.

Lay Monitors sample a lake at an established central/deep site for total
phosphorus (nutrient) concentration, chlorophyll-a (algae and
cyanobacteria) concentration, and/or Secchi depth (water clarity) every
week to ten days from Memorial Day to Labor Day. In total more than 100
inland lakes and 40 Lake Champlain stations have been monitored by this
dedicated group of citizen scientists, with support from the Department of
Environmental Conservation and Lake Champlain Sea Grant (since 2021). The
current 5-year LMP Quality Assurance Project Plan (2020-2024) is planned to
be revised in 2023 by changing the sampling methodology. *Come learn about
the new methodology for a better assessment of Lake Champlain!*
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-- 
*Aude Lochet, PhD*
(She/Her/Hers)
Lake Champlain Sea Grant, Lake Champlain Research Institute
Water Resources Outreach/Extension Specialist
Adjunct Instructor
SUNY Plattsburgh
Mail box: Hudson Hall 136
Office: Hudson Hall 123
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
(o) 518-564-2056

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