Area lake study, need help

[josh b.]

ALthough, that really does sound very interesting, and very applicable for divers, the research I am doing primarily concerns water clarity, temp, air temp, air conditions, water conditions (choppy, calm, etc) time of year, fish and plants (although not many people know different plant species) and maybe depth if I see anything interesting. In order to find specific relations between each (basics of ecology).

Unfortunately, I am not going to go through and calculate everybody's SAC rates, or what works for them or not.  I am collecting these pages for data with an associated journal.  Yes, you will all see the results, they will be mostly in graphs, but there should be a poster made that could possibly be at GUDC, depending on what I find. 

My purpose, is to graph all of this data, and interpret it to make specific lake models that may help determine water quality, and predict future lake changes.  My abstract is not quite written yet, so this may seem confusing, but the log book page data will greatly help my efforts.  The DNR also has information like this, but not consistent year-to-year collections, and especially not month-to-month, or week-to-week, like some of these lakes may be. 

Look forward to a graphical illustration of the information, and the results will be posted on here, as well as the thanks to the many divers' log book pages that will help in my efforts.  I don't see why a copy of my poster can't be put up at GUDC, so that, too, may be another area to see the results first hand...and maybe determine your next dive!

Josh