From: Daniel J. Willis [djwillis@ufl.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:29 PM
To: Charles Kristofek
Subject: UF IFAS LAKEWATCH Irma

Chuck,

As you are aware we lost 40% of our LAKEWATCH budget for this fiscal year.
So, we have had to make some decisions on how we can continue the program under our current budget. We have decided not to cut any lakes from our program. 
However, we are not going to add any new lakes to our program. We would like all of our volunteers to go out each month and complete the water 
clarity test (secchi) and fill out the data sheet appropriately (observations).  We would like you to sample the nutrients (TP and TN) and 
algae (chlorophyll) every other month including water clarity and the data sheet requirements. 
This will allow us to monitor the clarity every month and get 6 months of nutrients samples instead of 12 months allowing us to cut our cost 
and still get a lot of usable data on many lakes. Please just put you data sheet for the months you are not sampling nutrients in one of the 
sets of samples you have sampled. I would like to say that this is only temporary. We are going to lobby hard for our funding to be reinstated, 
so we can go back to the monthly sampling next year.

I thank you for all the work you have done and are doing for the Florida LAKEWATCH program and wanted to let you know I really appreciate 
the time and effort you spend sampling the lake(s).

Please respond to this e-mail, so I know you received it.


Sincerely,

Dan


Daniel J. Willis
Coordinator of Research Programs and Services LAKEWATCH University of Florida School of Forestry and Resource Conservation Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
7922 NW 71st Street
Gainesville, Florida 32653
352-392-4817
1-800-525-3928
lakewat@ufl.edu
djwillis@ufl.edu
fax: 352-392-4902