The latest news and notes from the Lake Observations By Citizen Scientists and Satellites project
The Lake Level Monitor
LOCSS Project Newsletter
October 2018
The Lake Observations by Citizen Scientists & Satellites project seeks to better understand how the quantity of water in lakes is changing.
LOCSS Is Expanding To Washington!
We are very excited to announce that we have expanded beyond the borders of North Carolina, and are now studying lakes in Washington state. We are currently studying 12 lakes in the state, with plans to study even more.
Before beginning our project, we looked for other organizations that were engaging citizen scientists to study lakes and found out that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was doing just that. We recently made a trip to Wisconsin to learn more about their work.
Darren Kelly is one of the LOCSS program's most dedicated citizen scientists and the reason we have so many lake height measurements from two of our North Carolina lakes.
We've changed our project's name to better reflect the work we are doing to understand lakes. The new name is Lake Observations by Citizen Scientists and Sattelites, or LOCCS for short.
