Contents Winter 2009 Home Page General Notices President's Message Lakeside Notes Thank You! Lake Lingo Metaphyton Monitoring Quality Counts! Littorally Speaking Exclusive Online Articles The Secret Life of Data Monitoring Your Watershed Camp Roads DEP Grant Reports Online
	Vol. 13, No. 3		Winter 2009

Welcome to the First Enhanced Web Edition of
The Water Column

Moosehead Lake

Expanding online content, full color images, links to more information, reducing consumption of natural resources, reducing program costs: What do these all have in common? They are some of the benefits of expanding our online edition of The Water Column.

What do you think about the online and printed formats? This newsletter is for you! Your ideas and feedback will help guide the evolution of our print and online formats.

Select articles from the Table of Contents at top or below.

Contents

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General Notices
Events, News and New Offerings

President's Message
Planning for challenges ahead

Lakeside Notes
The Future of The Water Column: It's Up To You!

Lake Lingo
Plankton, Phytoplankton, Zooplankton

Quality Counts!
If your DO meter could talk, might you hear…

Metaphyton Monitoring
Volunteer Perspectives

Thank You!
For helping make 2008 a record year for VLMP fundraising

Littorally Speaking
2008 Invasive Aquatic Plant Survey Activity in Review

The Secret Life of Data
Have you been wondering how the data you collect are used to benefit your lake – and Maine lakes, in general? This article, written for The Water Column by Maine DEP’s Linda Bacon and Roy Bouchard, provides a comprehensive answer to that question.

Monitoring Your Watershed
Volunteer lake monitors can play an important role by taking the data that they collect into their watershed communities and using the information to foster lake and watershed stewardship, and ultimately to help restore the natural balance between a lake and its watershed.

Camp Roads
Highways for pollution & practices to protect water quality

DEP Grant Reports Online
Search for the watershed-based projects from across the state

Notices

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Save the Date!
2009 VLMP Conference July 11, 2009 At The Great Outdoors in Turner Maine More Information & Registration will be posted in our spring newsletter.	2009 Invasive Plant Patrol Workshop Schedule TBA	2009 Tentative Water Quality Monitor Training Schedule New Secchi Monitors: May 9, May 16, June 27 New DO Monitors: June 13

Maine’s Invasive Plant Patrollers Highlighted in National Journal June 2009 Update: Full article version of the newsletter available: http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/volunteer/newsletter/volmon20no1.pdf The challenge is this: How does an organization go about the task of motivating hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals from all walks of life to engage in a search of unprecedented proportions, using new skills and meticulous care, scanning the broadest possible areas repeatedly, with dedication, year after year, all the while hoping that the object of the search will never be found? The VLMP took up this challenge with enthusiasm in 2002, when we launched our Invasive Plant Patrol (IPP) program. Since that time, we have trained nearly 2,000 Invasive Plant Patrollers, and the majority of all screening survey activity now reported in Maine is conducted by IPP volunteers. So begins the feature article in the current issue of the EPA’s national journal, The Volunteer Monitor.  Since its inception in 2001, the VLMP’s Invasive Plant Patrol program has increasingly been seen as model for citizen-based invasive aquatic plant monitoring in other parts of the globe.  This winter we were asked by the editors of The Volunteer Monitor to share story of how the VLMP adapted its well-established model for citizen-based water quality monitoring to the threat of aquatic invaders.  The story, along with its highlighted sidebars, provides numerous illustrations of the critical role that VLMP volunteers have played, and continue to play, in the evolution of the Program.

New Videos on the VLMP Website
More and more volunteers are sending us their lake photos and videos, including some amazing underwater images. If you have photos or video that you would like to share with volunteer monitors and others, please contact us. Check out recent videos submitted by volunteers.

Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program

vlmp@mainevlmp.org
24 Maple Hill Road, Auburn, ME 04210
(207) 783-7733
www.MaineVolunteerLakeMonitors.org
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