The Secchi Dip-In
 

June 26 - July 18, 2010


 

Clearwater Lake, MN

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   Copy of 2008 Questionnaire

  
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Monitoring Methods
   
 Sampling Methods
  
   Secchi disks
     Turbidity Tubes
     Black Disks
     Temperature and Oxygen
     Chlorophyll
     Phosphorus
     Trophic State
     Watershed Signs
     Storm Drain Signs

    
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Dip-In Staff

 

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Contact the Dip-In at:
    dipin@kent.edu

Web Site Update:
 January 22, 2010

Sugar Branch Lake, PA

February 2010

Look for a major facelift in the Dip-In Website.  We'll have a faster and easier way to enter your data, view data, and personalize your site with your own photos.

 

 
Lake George, NY

We Are Still Accepting Data
for Dip-In 2009 and Earlier Years

We accept data for the 2009  Dip-In and earlier years.  If you missed previous Dip-ins but have appropriate data, you can also add this data as well.

If we have 5 years or more of data, we will do a trend analysis on the waterbody.

  We also accept data from any date during the year, which we use to examine seasonal variability.

 

 

Kansas City Parks, Jerry Pitt, USEPA
 
Friends of Chapman Forest, MD

 

A Secchi on the Danube:
Bob Kennedy and Dave Soballe

Since July, 1994
more than 10,000 volunteers have provided more than 
39,000 transparency records on 9,839 waterbodies

The volunteers belong to
 
394 Programs,
both volunteer and professional
in
  
50 US states,
     9 Canadian provinces, and
     6
other countries

 

 

 

 

The 2009 Dip-In is Sponsored by

Kent State University

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

North American Lake Management Society

 

 

The Secchi Dip-In is coordinated at

Kent State University  
by 
Bob Carlson,
Department of Biology and
Jay Lee

Department of Geography