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Contact the Dip-In at:
dipin@kent.edu
Web Site Updated:
June 09, 2008
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Have a Dip-In Event to Educate the Public
We encourage you to make the Dip-In part of a media event for
your monitoring program.
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Dip-In related event, we will be happy to host and even
construct a Web page for you. See the Vermont page
below for an example. Do you already have a page? We will
be happy to add links at ours to yours. Contact us
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If your monitoring program involves
lakes, why not use the North American Lake Management Society's Lakes
Appreciation Week campaign sponsored by the North American Lake
Management Society as a focal point for your Dip-In.
Another possibility is to have the Dip-In in association with a Lake
Day or other established event on your site. Everyone benefits if
there is attention drawn to your efforts to monitor the environment.
It is a chance for you to educate the public and your elected officials
about the problems and promises of our environment.
Dip-In Events
We encourage programs and volunteers to use the Dip-In as a vehicle
to stage an “event” to highlight their own program. Follow the
links to see examples of Dip-In related events.
Cuyahoga River Dip-In, Kent, Ohio:
For the past two years we have dipped our disks into the famous
Cuyahoga River at the City of Kent’s Heritage Festival. Ohio
Congressman Tom Sawyer, Kent State’s President, Carol Cartwright, and
local dignitaries measured the transparency of the Cuyahoga.
Vermont's Governor’s Lake Dip-In:
Vermont conducted a Governor’s Lake Dip-In on Lake Bomoseen. Governor
Dean participated in measuring transparency and presented the Robert
Arnold Lake Protection Award to honor an individual for their
outstanding lake and watershed protection work. He also named the local
student winners of the Governor’s Lake Dip-In essay contest.
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In 1996, Jerry Pitt, then with the U.S. EPA, was
working with an Kansas City urban youth
program. When he found out about the Dip-In, he got a local
paint manufacturer to donate paint can lids. He had the kids
paint black and white quadrants on the lids and then take their
disks out to a lake for their first experience in volunteer
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Andrew McLeod, director of the Rhode Island’s Department of
Environmental Management, joined volunteers in taking
samples in Johnson's Pond for the Dip-In. Susan Baxter, a
student at the University of Rhode Island, taught McLeod, who
had never done water sampling before, how to use a "Secchi
disk test."
The Massachusetts Water Watch Partnership (http://www.umass.edu/tei/mwwp/dipin.html)
didn’t have an event, but put the results of the Dip-In in
Massachusetts on their web site to highlight the variation in
transparency found by their volunteers.
Governor's Proclamations
Below are some programs that used the Dip-In and/or the Lakes
Appreciation Week in 1998 in Governor's Proclamations.
Oklahoma
Wisconsin
How to Attract Media Coverage:
If you would like to have the media cover your event, please
see our page dealing with media coverage.
Press Release:
Please feel free to use our Press Release
for the Dip-In.
Need other information?
Please call/e-mail us at DipIn@kent.edu
or write
The Great North American Secchi Dip-In
Department of Biological Sciences
Kent State University
Kent OH 44242
Updated:
June 10, 2009
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