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The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance welcomes Korin Doering and Chad VandenLangenberg to the team!
Korin Doering started with the Alliance on October 31 as the Winnebago Waterways Program Coordinator. Korin comes to Fox-Wolf with a background in aquatic invasie species and wetlands. She has a Master’s degree in Water Resources Management from UW-Madison and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from UW-Oshkosh. In addition to her career interests, she enjoys several hobbies, including: fishing year-round, hiking, biking, swimming, and growing food. Having spent many years fishing and enjoying the Winnebago Pool Lakes, she is excited to be working to protect and restore water resources close to her family’s home in Appleton.
If you are interested in learning more about the Winnebago Waterways Program or would like to know how to be involved, please contact her at: (920) 851-0948 or korin@fwwa.org.
Chad VandeLangenberg began as the NEWSC (Northeast Wisconsin Stormwater Consortium) and Lower Fox River Recovery Program Coordinator on November 7. Chad, an Appleton native, joins Fox-Wolf with 15 years experience working with shorelands, floodplain, farmland preservation, erosion control and large scale land development through his 15 years working with the Lacrosse County Zoning, Planning and Land Information Department. Prior to working with the county, Chad earned a Bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Management/Environmental Sciences from UW-Green Bay. Chad now lives in Greenville with his wife Stacy and three daughters, Tanisha (14), Alexis (12) and Sadie (9). Chad enjoys golfing, hunting, ice fishing and spending time at his cabin in Lakewood. Most evenings Chad can be found at the kitchen table doing homework with his girls or in his woodshop working on his next “project”. Chad is looking forward to meeting all of the partners working to advance watershed recovery in the Lower Fox River as well as all of the NEWSC member representatives.
If you are interested in learning more about Fox-Wolf”s Lower Fox River Recovery Program or the Northeast Wisconsin Stormwater Consortium, please contact Chad at (920)915-5767 or chad@fwwa.org.mful algal blooms.
The new monitoring project, in addition to characterizing the BUI status, will provide insight into the recreational risk associated with expanded use of the lower bay. It will also help with developing tools the community can use to manage that risk, provide supporting data for adapting predictive tools developed for Lake Erie to Lower Green Bay, and contribute to current research on algae bloom dynamics.
Algal blooms occur in the summer and early fall, when elevated nutrient levels, warm temperatures, and lots of sun-light fuel algae growth. Some are generated in the same spot where they appear, and some are moved in by wind and waves. Some contain photosynthetic bacteria (known as blue-green algae) which can produce toxic chemicals.
Blooms that contain these toxic chemicals are known as “harmful algal blooms” (HABs). Cyanobacteria may float on the surface, forming a scum or be distributed throughout the water. (There are many types of algae and not every algal bloom is a HAB.) Because of these variables, any monitoring strategy must be carefully designed.
The expertise of many project partners, including DNR, NOAA, USGS, UW-Milwaukee, and NEW Water, contributed to the development of the monitoring strategy. Implementation is a team effort as well, with weekly sampling occurring at sites already monitored by NEW Water and more intense monitoring led by UW-Milwaukee occurring at two nearshore sites paired with continuous monitoring buoys.
The algae monitoring project is a 3-year project funded by USEPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office with Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funds. The results are expected to be useful not only for the Beach Closings BUI but also for the Eutrophication or Undesirable Algae and Restrictions on Drinking Water BUIs. For more information about the project, contact Donalea Dinsmore, Great Lakes Quality Assurance and Beach Program Coordinator, at Donalea.Dinsmore@Wisconsin
