CLAMP is a volunteer lake monitoring program started in 1999 by Iowa Lakeside Lab and Friends of Lakeside Lab. Volunteers collect water samples throughout the summer on nine lakes in Dickinson County, Iowa. The goal of CLAMP is to provide long term monitoring data for algae conditions and educate local citizens about lake ecology. Click on the balloons below to see recent water quality data for that sampling location.
Water samples have been recently collected from East Okoboji, Silver, Big Spirit, and Center. Analysis for nutrients (phosphorus and nitrogen) and algae abundance (chlorophyll a) will be started soon. Thanks to all the volunteers' hard work so far.
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