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SAVE THE DATE: OLA Conference Oct 14-15, 2022Reserve Friday, Oct 14 and Saturday, Oct 15 for our joint conference with the Nez Perce Department of Fisheries Resource Management. One day will be dedicated to celebrating sockeye salmon reintroduction and other issues focused on the Wallowa region. We will have the run of the lovely Wallowa Lake Lodge: please consider the Lodge and/or its cabins for accommodation. We’ll also make remote attendance via Zoom available. Our Call for Abstracts for presentations to fill the second day of our conference closes August 20, 2022. 2022 OLA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT: KATHRYN QUEENOur 2022 OLA Graduate Scholarship Recipient is Kathryn Queen. Kathryn (Katey) is an MS student at the Institute of Watershed Studies at Western Washington University working under the supervision of Prof. Angela Strecker. She is interested in high montane lakes, which are important features scattered across the Cascade Range. OLA's Scholarship and Outreach Fund
OLA's Scholarship and Outreach Fund supports research on Oregon's lakes and watersheds and public outreach activities.
Click on the button below to learn more about Katey Queen, about new opportunities, read about past award recipients and activities, and contribute to the Scholarship and Outreach Fund.
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Past Scholarship Recipients | OUR MISSION OLAs Mission is to promote the understanding, protection, and thoughtful management of lakes and watersheds in Oregon. To fulfill this mission, OLA holds lakes conferences and workshops, publishes the Lake Wise newsletter, advocates for lakes in the legislative arena, and offers graduate student scholarships. Lake Wise Newsletter, May 2022In this issue:
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RECENT EVENTS2021 Fall Conference SeriesThe Oregon Lakes Association held our Annual Lakes Conference as a series of online, Wednesday afternoon sessions this fall. Three sessions were included:
Presentations covered a wide range of topics including desert lakes, climate change, paleolimnology, remote sensing of cyanobacterial blooms, water quality modeling, and lake management (Agenda and Abstracts). Lake Abert in Lake County, Oregon (Ron Larson photo). Visit our Projects page to find out how OLA is advocating for Lake Abert and other waterbodies in Oregon EVENT ARCHIVESYouTube videos of our most recent events, the 2021 Careers in Freshwater Panel discussion and the 2021 Harmful Algal Bloom Stakeholder Meeting, are available for review. Archived meeting videos and presentation slides, including those from our online Fall 2020 Seminar Series, are available for OLA members within our meeting archives. Please consider joining OLA to gain access to our archives, get reduced conference registration rates, receive our triannual Lake Wise Newsletter, and gain access to the Newsletter archive. |