Secchi Dip-In

Happy Lakes Appreciation Month! It's time to dig out your Secchi disks for the Annual Secchi Dip-In running from July 1 to 31, 2024. Visit our website to find more information and download a form to submit your readings!⁠

https://www.bclss.org/programs

Can't decide which lake to "dip"? No problem, we will accept dips from as many BC lakes as you would like to sample! Also, feel free to take multiple dips on the same lake within Lakes Appreciation Month.⁠
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Please submit your Secchi Dip-In data to BCLSS promptly to ensure that it is included in our final results. You can submit your completed Secchi Dip-In forms on our website or by email to [email protected]
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Note: If you are already monitoring your lake at a level 1, 2, or 3, you may use one or more of your regular Secchi readings (providing that the data falls between July 1 and July 31) for the Annual Secchi Dip-In; however, we ask that you please complete a separate Secchi Dip-In form aside from your regular level 1, 2, or 3 data sheet.⁠
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We appreciate receiving your Secchi dips and hope you can participate this year! Please share with anyone that may be interested.

The Robert Carlson Secchi Dip-In is a demonstration of the potential of volunteer monitors to gather environmentally important information on our lakes, rivers, and estuaries. Although the Dip-In event is held in July, participants are welcome to monitor water quality and submit data year-round!

The North American Lake Management Society launched the AWQMS database with a web app for citizen science data entry, a public portal for data visualization and download, capabilities for migrating data from the Lake Observer app, and a direct connection to upload collected Secchi depth and water quality data to the federal government’s WQX/WQP databases.

Learn more: https://www.nalms.org/secchidipin/.

There's still time to take part in Month and the Secchi Dip-In this July! Check out our latest program alert on some upcoming events and challenges for the whole family: https://tinyurl.com/yuknufva 😎 (You can even win prizes!)

Come take part in the North American Lake Management Society annual Secchi Dip-In. For the month of July, volunteer participants can gather and submit important data concerning our lakes, rivers, and estuaries. Secchi disks are easy to make and use. With a Secchi disk, you can travel to your local lake and measure its depths and test its water quality for scientific study.

We are thrilled to introduce our 2023 Community-Based Lake Science & Monitoring Intern, Oluwaseun Olubodun! Seun is a Ph.D. student in Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Miami University and holds master's degrees in microbiology and environmental science. She will focus her efforts this summer on the , a program of the North American Lake Management Society 💧

Lake data collected by our CLMP volunteers will be part of an international program, thanks to the Secchi Dip-In!

https://micorps.net/news/clmp-data-to-be-included-in-international-lake-data-set/

The Simple Usefulness of the Secchi Disk A centuries-old sailor’s hack enters the ecologist’s toolkit.

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We are excited to share that registration is now open for in Minneapolis! We hope you will join us and our local partners as we come together in this special location. Register here: https://www.nalms.org/nalms2022/.

📷: Courtesy of Meet Minneapolis

How to Measure Secchi and Site Depth A Secchi disk is used to measure how deep a person can see into the water. It is lowered into the lake until the observer loses sight of it indicating how de...