The Pennsylvania Lake Management Society will hold its annual conference on October 18-19 in State College.

There will be presentations on a variety of topics, including: watershed management, lake and pond management, watershed monitoring, fisheries management and dealing with problem geese.

This year the featured speaker is Dr. Robert Carlson from Kent State University. Dr. Carlson is perhaps most famous for the "Carlson Trophic State Index" which is universally used for the classification of "lake health."

Other activities include development of the Great American Secchi Dip-In, development of an international water quality monitoring network, development of predictive regional models for lake water quality, assessments of impacts by invasive aquatic plants, and use of paleolimnology in lake management.

For more information, visit the PLMS Conference webpage.

9/16/2005