(Okoboji)-There are several training sessions for the CLAMP program coming up next month. KUOO’s Becky Thoreson has details:
Iowa Lakeside Laboratory is preparing to start the CLAMP program for the summer season.
Environmental Lab Analyst Megan Vigdal says, the water quality monitoring program is now in its 25th year. “CLAMP is the Cooperative Lakes Area Monitoring Project. It was started in 1999, so this will be our 25th anniversary of sampling the water in the Great Lakes. It’s a volunteer citizen’s science program, where volunteers go out onto the chain of lakes, Center Lake as well as Silver Lake over in Lake Park, and they go gather water samples on their boats and they go with other volunteers and they bring them back here to Lakeside Lab where we will analyze them for different nutrients and things to keep tabs on the lakes and see if there’s different trends happening.”
She adds that several volunteer training sessions will be offered in late May. “We’re gonna have 3 chances on 2 different days. So, Wednesday, May 29th at 10 am, and then Thursday, May 30th at 10 am or 6 pm, and those will be held out here at Lakeside Lab.”
The CLAMP program will run through early September.
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Email Megan Vigdal: megan-vigdal@uiowa.edu
