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UPCOMING WEBINARS & EVENTS
FREE TO ALL

The Maine Loon Project. Presented by Tracy Hart; airing Friday, July 30 at 4pm

Tracy Hart, Director of the Maine Loon Project, will talk about the Maine Annual Loon Count, population trends, and tools on the Lakes of Maine site for learning about counts and survey efforts on individual lakes. She will also share fun facts about Common Loon natural history, threats, and conservation efforts in Maine.

Click for information on this free Zoom event at 4pm on Friday, July 30th

What kind of lake is that? Using monitoring data to organize Maine’s lakes into categories for better water quality assessments and protections; airing Friday, August 13 at 3:55pm

Maine has thousands of lakes, and all are unique. However, many lakes share traits that help lake managers, watershed organizations, and researchers, compare and evaluate them. This is especially important for lake assessments, which often compare a lake’s condition to the condition of reference lakes from minimally-disturbed watersheds. By determining which natural attributes of lakes and their watersheds have the strongest influence on lake condition, we can place lakes into categories that define what the conditions of certain types of lakes should be. These categories help managers place lake data in the proper context for better evaluation and planning. This talk will be about how lake types were developed for Maine lakes, and how these types may be applied to lake assessment and protection. Work like this is possible in large part because of significant contributions of long-term data from citizen scientists through the Lake Stewards of Maine. Applications of these data, beyond basic water quality monitoring, will also be discussed.

Click for information on this free Zoom event at 3:55pm on Friday, August 13th

Maine Lakes: from birth to death, and “everything”; coming Friday, August 27 at 2pm

This presentation is a look into the geologic cycle of Maine’s lake. Dr. Norton will explore the the chronology and formation of Maine’s lakes, the evolution of the soil chemistry and water chemistry during the last 16,000 years, a bit about the major responses of lake water chemistry to this evolution, the detailed history of anthropogenic air pollution as seen through the lens of sediment chemistry, and conclude with the life-after-death history of a Maine lake.

Click for information on this free Zoom event at 2pm on Friday, August 27th

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