A publication of the North American Lake Management Society LAKELINEVolume 33, No. 4 • Winter 2013 Coastal Lakes Permit No. 171 No. Permit Bloomington, IN Bloomington, 47405-1701 IN Bloomington, PAID 1315 E. Tenth Street Tenth E. 1315 US POSTAGE US MANAGEMENT SOCIETY MANAGEMENT NONPROFIT ORG. NONPROFIT NORTH AMERICAN LAKE AMERICAN NORTH Winter 2013 / LAKELINE 1 2 Winter 2013 / LAKELINE AKE INE Contents L L Published quarterly by the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) as a medium for exchange and communication among all those Volume 33, No. 4 / Winter 2013 interested in lake management. Points of view expressed and products advertised herein do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of NALMS or its Affiliates. Mention of trade names and commercial products shall not constitute 4 From the Editor an endorsement of their use. All rights reserved. Standard postage is paid at Bloomington, IN and 5 From the President additional mailing offices. 2013 NALMS Symposium Highlights NALMS Officers 6 President 12 2013 NALMS Awards Terry McNabb 17 2013 NALMS Photo Contest Winnters Immediate Past-President Ann Shortelle 2013 NALMS Election Results 18 President-Elect Reed Green Secretary Coastal Lakes Sara Peel Fresh, Salt, or Brackish: Managing Water Quality in a Treasurer 20 Michael Perry Coastal Massachusetts Pond NALMS Regional Directors 23 The Coastal Lagoons of Southern Rhode Island Region 1 Wendy Gendron Region 2 Chris Mikolajczyk Region 3 Imad Hannoun 28 Climatic Influence on the Hydrology of Florida’s Coastal Region 4 [vacant] Region 5 Melissa Clark Dune Lakes Region 6 Julie Chambers Region 7 Jennifer Graham 32 Tenmile Lake: Life and Limnology on the Oregon Coast Region 8 Craig Wolf Region 9 Todd Tietjen 36 Cleawox Lake, Oregon: The Coastal Sands of Cultural Region 10 Frank Wilhelm Region 11 Anna DeSellas Omission Region 12 Ron Zurawell At-Large Jason Yarbrough 45 Nitinat Lake – A British Columbia Tidal Lake Student At-Large Lindsey Witthaus LakeLine Staff Editor: William W. Jones 49 Student Corner Advertising Manager: Philip Forsberg Production: Parchment Farm Productions 52 Literature Search Printed by: Metropolitan Printing Service Inc. ISSN 0734-7978 ©2014 North American Lake Management Society 4510 Regent Street Suite 2A Madison, WI 53705 (All changes of address should go here.) Permission granted to reprint with credit. Address all editorial inquiries to: William Jones 1305 East Richland Drive Bloomington, IN 47408 Tel: 812/334-3485 [email protected] Advertisers Index Address all advertising inquiries to: Philip Forsberg Aquarius Systems, Inc. 48 NALMS PO Box 5443 On the cover: PhycoTech 51 Madison, WI 53705-0443 “Swamper’s Lake” by Jeff Spence, the first SePRO IFC Tel: 608/233-2836 place Peoples’ Choice award in the 2014 Fax: 608/233-3186 Vertex Water Features 31 [email protected] NALMS photo contest. Winter 2013 / LAKELINE 3 From Bill Jones the Editor LakeLine encourages letters to the editor. e’ve had an unusually snowy Do you have a lake-related question? Or, from the other as Elise Torello and and cold December thus far have you read something in LakeLine Rhonda Smith tell us in their article. No Where in southern Indiana. As a that stimulates your interest? We’d love state is in the news more during hurricane Wisconsin native, I to hear from you via e-mail, telephone, or season than Florida. The frequency of still look forward to postal letter. hurricanes wreaks havoc with Florida’s winter each year. For coastal dune lakes. Antonio Yaquian and those of you living Coastal lakes were again mentioned in James Jawitz have studied the hydrology where you are not the winter 2010 LakeLine (Vol. 30, No. 4) of several coastal lakes on Florida’s favored with snow, issue on Northwestern Lakes but we’ve panhandle and they report on one, Camp let me offer several never featured them in an issue…until Creek Lake. reasons for my joy: now. The coastal lakes of Oregon were (1) shoveling snow Coastal lakes are often formed by formed some 6,000 years ago due to is a much better and satisfying exercise ocean sand washed ashore that blocks rising sea levels that pushed sand dunes than driving into town to the gym; (2) a a stream discharging into the sea. This inland impounding coastal streams. In pot of homemade savory soup tastes so sand plug creates a lake behind it that addition to describing the history and much better on a cold winter’s day; (3) can last for many years, long enough limnology of Tenmile Lake, Joe Eilers the heat from the wood-burning stove for a freshwater, lacustrine system to also reports on the colorful challenges feels fantastic; and (4) they don’t call it a establish. The plug is assailed from he faced while working on the lake. “winter wonderland” because it is ugly. I both sides – by runoff from intense rain Limnologists often face similar challenges hope that you will find time to curl up in storms or snow melt from the land side, while in the field but I’ll wager that your favorite comfortable chair with this and by storm surges from the sea. People few of us have ever encountered a dead winter issue of LakeLine and forget about have described coastal lakes as having human body bobbing in the water! I’m the weather outside, whatever it might be. a split personality; sometimes they are glad to welcome frequent contributor, The annual NALMS elections were freshwater and sometimes they become Doug Larson, to these pages again and he held in the fall. In his firstFrom the brackish. This creates obvious stresses on doesn’t disappoint. Drawing on his nearly President column, we learn something the aquatic biota within coastal lakes and 50 years of history with Cleawox Lake about new President Terry McNabb and interesting management decisions. in Oregon, Doug assembled a detailed his vision and goals for our Society. We’ll start our journey in this issue and well-documented story of this lake. We next include highlights from with a Cape Cod coastal pond, travel Finally, we travel up to British Columbia warm sunny, San Diego, the site of 33rd down the Atlantic Coast, and then where glacial activity 10 to 15 thousand International NALMS Symposium. jump across the continent to travel up years ago carved out deep basins with Some 400 attendees were treated to the Pacific coast all the way to British classic fjörd morphometries. Rick Nordin a great program, fine weather, and a Columbia. Along the way you’ll be describes one of these, Nitinat Lake where chance to renew friendships and to make introduced to a variety of coastal lake the interplay between fresh and brackish new ones. We met the newly elected types and some really interesting stories. waters causes disruption to the lake’s NALMS Officers and recognized those Cape Cod has more than 900 ponds biota and to humans living nearby as well. who achieved noteworthy success with within five miles of the coast. Recorded In our Student Corner, Victoria projects. We also learned the identity of use of these ponds dates back to the Chraïbi, a doctoral student at the this year’s Secchi Disk Award winner. All Pilgrims. Ed Eichner describes one University of Nebraska, writes about her of these highlights are included here. of them, Cedar Pond. Inadvertent and experiences travelling to Austria to study The theme of this issue is “Coastal ill-advised management decisions have the resilience and adaptive management Lakes.” Ever since I first read about affected Cedar Pond for 175 years. In of stressed watersheds. We conclude this coastal lakes in the winter 1999 LakeLine nearby Rhode Island, a dozen or so “salt winter issue with Literature Search. (Vol. 19, No. 3-4) I’ve been fascinated ponds” dot a 20-mile-long stretch of that Enjoy! c by these dynamic and unique systems. state’s southern coast. Each is different 4 Winter 2013 / LAKELINE From Terry McNabb the President ow that I am two weeks into my to take over the region. Again we got was an enlightening experience. We have term at the President of NALMS, to visit hundreds of lakes and study the a very dedicated Board of Directors who Nmy first duty is to communicate impact of these species on these systems. donate their time, talent, and often their with the membership He brought me and a number of his grad money into making sure these things on this page. So here students to the Madison Lakes meeting in happen. We also have an excellent staff we go. the late 1970s that eventually lead to the that takes care of the key long-term and First, a bit of an formation of NALMS. In my professional day-to-day functions of our organization. introduction. I was career, this head start from the time I was As most of you know, we have just born in Madison, old enough to walk was a blessing and I moved our corporate status from Maine Wisconsin, to a have been lucky to make a career out of to Wisconsin where our headquarters is graduate student something I was taught to love from birth. located. The bylaws we were required at the UW in the While my Dad passed about 11 years to adopt to meet Wisconsin law spell 1950s. My dad received a Ph.D. in ago, one of the most remarkable things out a number of committees that the aquatic biology in that timeframe and was that happened was the outpouring of Society has to maintain and we did this working with many of the pioneers in lake multi-page letters to my Mom from grad at our annual board and membership management.