PowerPoint Development Tool

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• PowerPoint Development Tool
• For the Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program
• Enabling YOU to make your own presentations

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What is the purpose of this PowerPoint?

• The resources contained in this PowerPoint file
  are to help anyone interested in the MiCorps
  program develop their own presentation.
• Simply keep the slides you are interested in,
  delete those you are not.
• Use the excel file to create graphs using your
  own data and paste them into this presentation.
• Download it here www.micorps.net/documents/CLMP_Gr
  aph_Builders.xls

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MiCorps Overview
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• Together, well create the nations most
  comprehensive and meaningful clean water
  monitoring system, building a water legacy for
  generations to come.
• Former Governor Jennifer Granholm
• 2003

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MiCorps Mission

• Network and expand volunteer water quality
  monitoring organizations statewide for the
  purpose of collecting, sharing, and using
  reliable data.
• Educate and inform the public about water quality
  issues.
• Foster water resources stewardship to facilitate
  the preservation and protection of Michigans
  water resources.

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MiCorps- How does it work?

• MiCorps consists of two main programs
  concentrating on volunteer stream and lake
  monitoring.
• Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program (VSMP)
• Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program (CLMP)

• Other components of MiCorps that support the 2
  main programs are
• - Grants (Streams only)
• - Trainings
• - Annual Conference
• - Newsletter
• - Email ListServ for discussion and news
• - Web site
• - Web-based, publically available, searchable
  database

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MiCorps concentration in quality assurance gives
us

• More reliable data
• Which gives us
• Greater use by the DEQ and local
• managers in planning and management
• Continued funding of the program.

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Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program (CLMP)
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CLMP Goals

• Provide baseline information and document trends
  in water quality for individual lakes.
• Educate lake residents, users, and interested
  citizens in collection of water quality data,
  lake ecology, and lake management practices.

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CLMP Goals

• Build a constituency of citizens to practice
  sound lake management at the local level and
  build public support for lake quality protection.
• Provide a cost-effective process for the DEQ to
  increase baseline data for lakes in Michigan.

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CLMP Membership
2010 number 225 Lakes monitored by lake
associations or individuals
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What do we measure in the CLMP?

• Transparency
• Total Phosphorus
• Chlorophyll a
• Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature
• Aquatic Plants

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What is expected of volunteers?

• A slight enrollment fee (20-60, depending on
  parameter, plus one time equipment costs)
• Weekly or biweekly transparency measurements.
  Other measurements may need to be taken monthly.
• Attend an annual training
• Follow directions carefully.
• Sample turn in two-three times
• during the sampling season volunteers
• bring their samples into a local DEQ
• office.

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And what does the CLMP provide in return?

• The potential for long term data on your lake
  (the program has been operating since 1974).
• Training
• Analyzes your water samples at
• the State of Michigan lab for
• long-term data consistency
• Excellent quality assurance
• procedures
• A volunteer mentor program to get
• you help if you need it.

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Doesnt CLMP provide a magic formula for fixing
lakes?

• No. The CLMP only provides a way for you to
  collect the baseline data that is needed to make
  proper management decisions.
• It takes further effort, further resources, and
  committed riparian owners and state and local
  governments to carry out these management
  decisions.
• Additional lake management resources are
  available on the MiCorps web site at
  http//www.micorps.net/lakeresources.html

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Why do we need to take these measurements?

• Observing long-term trends of these parameters
  can help us understand if the amount of algae
  (lake eutrophication) is increasing in the lake
  over time.
• High phosphorus, high chlorophyll, and low
  transparency can be signs of
• Undesirable algae blooms
• Poor boating and swimming
• Low dissolved oxygen which can cause fish kills

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Watch out for eutrophication!

• Your CLMP monitoring may show
• Decreases of transparency
• Increases of phosphorus
• Increases of chlorophyll
• If this is the case, then steps need to be taken
  to reduce the amount of nutrients coming into the
  lake.

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Secchi Disk Transparency Trends
This graph was created by the CLMP Graph Builder
excel file, downloadable at www.micorps.net/docume
nts/CLMP_Graph_Builders.xls Download this file
to make your own graphs and paste them into this
presentation!
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Phosphorus Trends
This graph was created by the CLMP Graph Builder
excel file, downloadable at www.micorps.net/docume
nts/CLMP_Graph_Builders.xls Download this file
to make your own graphs and paste them into this
presentation!
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Chlorophyll Trends
This graph was created by the CLMP Graph Builder
excel file, downloadable at www.micorps.net/docume
nts/CLMP_Graph_Builders.xls Download this file
to make your own graphs and paste them into this
presentation!
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Trophic Status Index (TSI)

• The CLMP uses Carlsons TSI to classify lakes as
• Oligotrophic
• Mesotrophic
• Eutrophic
• Hypereutrophic
• Get the TSI values for your lake from the most
  recent CLMP annual report and use the next slide
  to classify your lake.

Least Productive/ Least Eutropthic
Most Productive/ Most Eutropthic
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Dead Spider Lake is a Mesotrophic lake
Directions 1. Click and drag the 3 dots to the
proper location for your lake. 2. Click and drag
the 3 lines so they line the dots up with the top
bar. 3. The 3 lines indicate the approximate
trophic status of your lake. 4. Many lakes will
not fit neatly into a single trophic category.
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What do dissolved oxygen and temperature profiles
tell us about a lake?

• Define the temperature and density zones of
  lakes.
• Thermally classify lakes (warm or cold water)
• Determine bottom water oxygen depletion.
• Sediment phosphorus release- phosphorus is
  released from bottom sediments in anoxic (no
  oxygen) conditions.
• Fishery status indicator- what kind of fish can
  this lake support?

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DO and Temp Profiles for Dead Spider Lake
May 15, 2010
This graph was created by the CLMP Graph Builder
excel file, downloadable at www.micorps.net/docume
nts/CLMP_Graph_Builders.xls Download this file
to make your own graphs and paste them into this
presentation!
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DO and Temp Profiles for Dead Spider Lake
June 6, 2010
This graph was created by the CLMP Graph Builder
excel file, downloadable at www.micorps.net/docume
nts/CLMP_Graph_Builders.xls Download this file
to make your own graphs and paste them into this
presentation!
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DO and Temp Profiles for Dead Spider Lake
July 7, 2010
This graph was created by the CLMP Graph Builder
excel file, downloadable at www.micorps.net/docume
nts/CLMP_Graph_Builder.xls Download this file
to make your own graphs and paste them into this
presentation!
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DO and Temp Profiles for Dead Spider Lake
July 29, 2010
This graph was created by the CLMP Graph Builder
excel file, downloadable at www.micorps.net/docume
nts/CLMP_Graph_Builders.xls Download this file
to make your own graphs and paste them into this
presentation!
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DO and Temp Profiles for Dead Spider Lake
August 30, 2010
This graph was created by the CLMP Graph Builder
excel file, downloadable at www.micorps.net/docume
nts/CLMP_Graph_Builders.xls Download this file
to make your own graphs and paste them into this
presentation!