Protect Your Shoreline With An Itasca Waters Shoreland Advisor

Changing Water Quality in Itasca County, Minnesota Lakes

Presented by: Dr. Jack Jones, an internationally recognized and award-winning limnologist and ecologist who has worked on the major questions of eutrophication and nutrient pollution for over four decades. He was among the first to discover the phosphorus-chlorophyll relationship in lakes which is now the backbone of lake management worldwide. In addition to working on and monitoring lakes across the Midwestern US, Jack has been instrumental in assisting communities in Nepal and elsewhere around the world in sustaining fisheries in lakes. He is a Curator's Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and is an adjunct professor of extension at Minnesota Sea Grant at UMD. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal, Inland Waters. He is a summer resident of Deer Lake, a long-term member of the Deer Lake Association, and assisted Itasca Waters with the Itasca County lake monitoring program.

Topic Description: Our region and state are well-known for iconic, high-quality waters. Some people have reported seeing decreases in water quality and unwelcome changes in algae and plants in lakes. This presentation explores these concerns and the data that help us understand how lakes might be changing. An exploration of the factors that might lead to changes in our lakes is also discussed.