The LakeSuperiorStreams.org project (formerly called DuluthStreams.org before broadening its scope to include the larger Western Lake Superior
Region) received a Technical Excellence Award in recognition of
"Outstanding Research in Stream and Lake Restoration, Protection
and Management" from the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS)
at the 25th Anniversary Banquet and Awards Ceremony at the Annual
NALMS International Symposium Lake Effects: Exploring the Relationship
between People and Water held in Madison, Wisconsin, November 9-11, 2005.
NRRI researchers Rich Axler and Elaine Ruzycki presented related papers
entitled:
Duluthstreams to Lakesuperiorstreams: Making stormwater and stream
data come alive for limnologists, citizens, students, resource agencies
and decision-makers
Authors: Rich Axler (NRRI-UMD), Marnie Lonsdale (Duluth
Stormwater Utility), Cindy Hagley (Sea Grant-UMD), George
Host (NRRI-UMD), Bruce Munson (Education-UMD), Jane Reed
(NRRI-UMD), Jesse Schomberg (Sea Grant-UMD), Norm Will
(NRRI-UMD), Elaine Ruzycki NRRI-UMD), Jerry Henneck (NRRI-UMD),
Nate Meyer (Extension-UM), Todd
Carlson and Jerry Walker (Duluth Stormwater Utility).
and
Estimating sediment and nutrient loads in three Western Lake Superior
streams: Continuous turbidity monitoring versus spot sampling and modeling.
Authors: Elaine Ruzycki, Rich Axler, George Host, Jerry Henneck, Norm Will
(all NRRI-UMD) and Joe Mayasich (WLSSD).
 LakeSuperiorStreams is a collaborative project between NRRI, Sea Grant, the
Education Department and Facilities Management at UMD, the City of Duluth,
WLSSD, MPCA, the South St. Louis County Soil & Water Conservation District
and involves 14 other organizations that now form a Regional
Stormwater Protection Team (RSPT). The website LakeSuperiorStreams.org incorporates real-time water quality data from 5 area streams, interpretive
information, curricula, case studies and a site design toolkit with the
goal of educating contractors, consultants, developers, realtors, students,
teachers, homeowners, agencies and decision-makers about the
environmental and economic links between our watershed activities, our streams
and Lake Superior.
Read a pdf
of the abstract (10 KB pdf file).
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