(Wahpeton)– If you have an interest in helping protect the water quality of the Iowa Great Lakes and would like to learn more about ecology, listen up!
Jane Shuttleworth of the Cooperative Lakes Area Monitoring Project, or “CLAMP”, says they’re looking for volunteers to help collect water samples from the Iowa Great Lakes. She says the requirements are relatively few. She says access to a boat is preferred, and your services would be needed about three times this summer, about a half-day each time to collect water samples and deliver them to Lakeside Laboratory for processing.
Shuttleworth says those interested will be asked to attend a free training session. Two are scheduled for this Saturday at the Waitt Building at Lakeside Lab–one at 10:00 a.m. and another at 1:00 p.m. In the event you can’t make either of those, Shuttleworth says you can contact her at Lakeside Lab and they’ll set up another session.
Shuttleworth says CLAMP is vital to measuring the success the various efforts to protect the water quality of the Iowa Great Lakes. She says about 35 volunteers on nine different lakes are currently involved in the program, coordinated by the Friends of Lakeside Lab and supported by the Dickinson County Water Quality Commission and the various lakes protective associations.
