Symposium Summary NALMS, Ohio Management Society (OLMS), and the Indiana Management Society (ILMS) welcomed more than 400 attendees from throughout the U.S., Canada, and 4 other countries to Cincinnati, Ohio, October 30 – November 2 for NALMS’ 38th International Symposium.

he week started on Tuesday with concurrent a busy day of ten workshops and sessions offered Tthree field trips. New workshops this by the Water year included Advanced Phytoplankton Management , Introduction to R for Aquatic Association of Research, Lanthanum Modified Bentonite, Ohio, the parent and Lake Management Best Practices. organization of The field trips took attendees to a local OLMS. Special water treatment plant, the Thomas More sessions Biology Field Station, and to a couple of included large U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data sets and research facilities. long-term Attendees were welcomed on monitoring, Wednesday by plenary sessions from Army Corps Craig Williamson, the Ohio Eminent water quality Scholar of Ecosystem Ecology at Miami activities, University, and Amina Pollard, lead of the paleo- U.S. National Lakes Assessment for the , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Phoslock, Following her presentation, Dr. Pollard and molecular and the National Lakes Assessment techniques for HABs. program were presented the Friends of Not even pouring rain could take human form on Halloween NALMS Award. deter some dedicated runners in the during the NALMS Exhibitor Reception. The three-day technical program annual Clean Lakes Classic. Of the included approximately 180 oral approximately 30 runners registered for presentations and 25 poster presentations. the race, two-thirds braved the elements Wednesday’s program included for a run along the Ohio River.

6 Winter 2018 / NALMS • LAKELINE President Frank Brown making opening A wet Clean Lakes Classic 5K this year. remarks.

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Dr. Craig Williamson giving a plenary presentation on Lake Browning.

Our annual awards festivities were We also took a moment to look ahead held in the art deco splendor of the Hilton to the 2019 NALMS Symposium where Cincinnati Netherland Plaza where the we’ll reconvene on the shores of Lake accomplishments and contributions of Champlain in Burlington, Vermont. The NALMS members and other worthy 2019 symposium will be hosted by the recipients to lake management were New England Chapter of NALMS. recognized. The Secchi Disk Award, the Thank you to all who attended this year’s Society’s most prestigious award, given symposium! We look forward to seeing to a member who has made extraordinary you next November in Burlington for contributions to the goals and objectives NALMS 2019! Past president Julie Chambers and incoming of the Society was bestowed upon Gertrud president Sara Peel with her new gavel. Nürnberg.

Winter 2018 / NALMS • LAKELINE 7 Thank you to our sponsors! Benthica Sequoia Scientific, Inc BioBase by C-MAP SOX Erosion Solutions Sustaining Sponsors BioSafe Systems Turner Designs Aquarius Systems Brandt Vertex Water Features NorthEast Aquatic Research Canary Systems, Inc. White River Alliance Cruise Planners YSI, a Xylem brand Contributing Sponsors Dredge America Earth Science Laboratories Thank you to the Ohio Lake Management Freese and Nichols, Inc. Environmental & Cultural Research Society and the Indiana Lakes SOLitude Lake Management Logic, LLC Management Society and the 2018 Wenck Associates, Inc. EnviroScience, Inc. symposium host committee! Eureka Water Probes Sponsors Fluid Imaging Technologies David Culver, Chair EnviroScience, Inc. Fondriest Environmental, Inc. Eugene Braig, Co-chair Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber, Inc. Gold Systems Sara Peel, Co-chair Gantzer Water Resources GreenWater Laboratories Suzanne Gray, Program Committee Co- HAB Aquatic Solutions HAB Aquatic Solutions chair Miami Conservancy District Heartland Dredging Doug Kane, Program Committee Co-chair Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Hull & Associates, Inc. Jeff Schloss, NALMS Conference District In-Situ Coordinator Ohio State University School of Jones Fish & Lake Management Philip Forsberg, NALMS Director of Environment and Natural Resources Kasco Marine Programs and Operations Ohio Water Resources Center KISTERS North America Alyssa Anderson, NALMS Director of PhycoTech, Inc. Motz Enterprises Marketing and Membership Restorative Lake Sciences Onset Marty Hilovsky, Sponsorship Committee Vertex Water Features Optimal Fish Food Co-chair Water Resource Services OTT Hydromet Dana Oleskiewicz, Sponsorship PhycoTech, Inc. Committee Co-chair Thank you to our exhibitors! Phytoxigene Chris Lorentz, Local Arrangements Precision Measurement Engineering, Inc. Committee Chair Abraxis, Inc. Premier Materials Technology, Inc. Sarah Powers, Volunteer Committee Chair Airmax, Inc. Princeton Hydro, LLC Joe Bischoff Applied Biochemists Environmental Management, Heather Buck AQUA DOC Lake & Management Inc. Bret Henninger Aquarius Systems Seametrics Matt Rayl Aquatic Control SePRO Corporation

NALMS 2017 by the Numbers

415 Final number of full-conference attendees. 81 Number of attendees from Ohio. 29 (Indiana) Largest attendance from a state other than Ohio. 43 Number of U.S. states and districts represented. 6 Number of countries represented. 39 Number of students in attendance. 11 Number of students who received travel grants through the Eberhardt Memorial Student Fund. 51 Number of technical sessions. 177 Number of oral presentations. 25 Number of poster presentations. 46 Number of exhibitors. 31 (registered) / 19 (rain-soaked participants) number of competitors in the Clean Lakes Classic. 798 Distance in miles, as the crow flies, between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Burlington, Vermont, site of the 2019 NALMS Symposium.

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