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Florida's Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring
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and its Youth Education Program:
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Check out our new WebCasts!
(USEPA New Numeric Nutrient Standards for Florida)


What is Florida LAKEWATCH?
Bathymetric Maps
The Florida LAKEWATCH Team
2005 Data Report
Florida LAKEWATCH Newsletters
  2007 Fish Report
Lakes Monitored
2008 Fish Report
2009 Fish Report


Florida LAKEWATCH Brochures/Circulars
LAKEWATCH Aquatic Bird Survey
Publications Using
LAKEWATCH Data
Hydrilla Report
(June, 2005 pdf)

Florida Atlas of Lakes: a Web Site for Lake Volunteers





Read the new
Florida LAKEWATCH Newsletter

(Vol 56, March, 2012) !

Florida Lake Types

1. Coastal Dune Lakes
(Walton Co.)

New Webcasts:
Lakewatch Chats:

1. Establishing Numeric Nutrient
Criteria in Florida lakes.
(Prof. D.E. Canfield,Jr.)

2. Problems With the Proposed
Numeric Nutrient Criteria
in Florida lakes.
(Prof. R.W. Bachmann)

LAKEWATCH
Volunteers Meetings


You Are Invited

County Meetings
 for Volunteers

None Scheduled

Want to be a
Florida LAKEWATCH
Volunteer?

Data Sheets for Volunteers:
  FLW     New Coast

How do data from volunteer sampling compare with professionals?


Web Site Map


Do You Know?

Read our article on the reliability of Volunteer Monitoring Data! Download PDF

You can find information on aquatic plants from UF's Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants Library?

Read our 2009 findings : Survey of toxic algal (microcystin) distribution in Florida lakes. by D.L. Bigham, M.V. Hoyer and D. E. Canfield, Jr,

Between 1986 and 2007 Florida LAKEWATCH volunteers sampled, in 56 counties, a total of:2289 water bodies, including 1511 lakes, 344 coastal sites,425 river sites, and 9 springs!

Sampled in 2007: 867 water bodies: 609 lakes, 129 coastal sites,124 rivers and 5 springs.

Map of Coastal Sites
Map of Lake Sites
Map of River Sites
Water Sample Collection Centers



Learn more: about LAKEWATCH and Fishing for Success, including awards won; about lakes, lake management and aquatic ecology; and links to other related sites.

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For more information about Florida LAKEWATCH, Contact:

University of Florida  IFAS, School of Forest Resources and Conservation

Florida LAKEWATCH
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

7922 NW 71st Street 
Gainesville, FL 32653
Toll Free Message Line: 1-800-LAKEWATCH (525-3928) 
Phone: 352/392-4817 
Fax: 352/392-4902 
Univ. of Florida PO: 110600

 

 

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Webmaster e-mail: mdbach@ufl.edu

Florida LAKEWATCH e-mail:
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