LAKEWATCH Florida

The Florida LAKEWATCH program conducts and supports primary research on limnology and fisheries science. We are broadly interested in freshwater ecology and chemistry. In the past, the program has produced meaningful research on water quality (thanks for our extensive database generated by our volunteers) as well as fish population, plant communities, and bacteria levels in freshwater ecosystems within Florida and beyond. Under Dr. Lescord’s leadership, our current research activities have expanded our research scope to also include various pollutants and food web modeling. We are also actively collaborating with social scientists to learn more from our volunteers and inform other citizen science programs on how to recruit and retain their participants.