The Secchi Dip-In
 

June 28 - July 20, 2008

See Also:
World Water Monitoring Day
http://www.worldwater
monitoringday.org/

 

Clearwater Lake, MN

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Enter Your Data
   Instructions and Data Entry Form for     Dip-In
   Enter Your Dip-In Data Here
(You can now enter data from any date during the year)

 Download
   Copy of 2007 Questionnaire

  
Press Release

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

    
More...

Dip-In Events

Photo Gallery

Dip-In Staff

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

Web Site Update:
 May 05, 2008

Sugar Branch Lake, PA

Accepting Data
for Dip-In 2007 and Earlier Years

We are still accepting data for the 2007  Dip-In.  If you missed previous Dip-ins but have appropriate data, you can also add it at this time.  We also accept data from any date during the year, which we use to examine seasonal variability.

 

 
Lake George, NY

 

Kansas City Parks, Jerry Pitt, USEPA
 
Friends of Chapman Forest, MD
Since July, 1994
 
9,399 Volunteers have provided 32,539 transparency records on 6,622 waterbodies

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

Click Here To View Data from 1994 to 2005 (Closed for Repairs)

 

 

Fishing for a Clear Lake

The Dip-In is Sponsored by

  The United States Environmental Protection Agency's  
Clean Lakes Program 
and the
Volunteer Monitoring Program
In cooperation with 
the North American Lake Management Society

 

 

Programs can also use the site to provide web entry for their volunteers.  Please contact us if you would like to have a separate data entry page for your program (See the CLAM page for and example).

The Secchi Dip-In is coordinated at

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

Department of Geography