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Fixing Sediment Phosphorus
Fixing Sediment Phosphorus 3 Important Factors to Consider When Addressing Internal Phosphorus Loading in Lakes By Patrick Goodwin, M.S., CLM Figure 1. Modified illustration of phosphorus loading from Gibbs & Hickey 2018 Internal phosphorus (P) loading from...
Keeping Your Lake Safe: All About Swimmer’s Itch
Keeping Your Lakes Safe: All About Swimmer’s Itch Biology, Detection, Risk Factors, and In-lake Management Options for Swimmer’s Itch By Patrick Goodwin, M.S., CLM Figure 1. Picture of cercariaea (Public Health Image Library) Biology Swimmer’s itch...
Cyanobacteria 101
Cyanobacteria 101: Solving A Dangerous Problem Toxins, Classification, Dominance, Key Thresholds, and Solutions for Lake Managers By Patrick Goodwin, M.S., CLM The final and ultimate stage of eutrophication is when cyanobacteria dominance becomes permanent in a lake....
Golden Algae: The Hidden Fish Killer
Golden Algae, The Hidden Fish Killer Prymnesium parvum is responsible for many fish deaths, but there are solutions. By Patrick Goodwin, M.S., CLM The toxic golden algae Prymnesium parvum has been documented and implicated in numerous large-scale fish kills worldwide,...
Muck Digestion Products: Take competitors’ claims with a grain of salt
Muck Digestion Products: Take competitors’ claims with a grain of salt The results are in, are all muck digesters the same? By Landon Wiet At Natural Lake Biosciences, we believe in real science that produces real results. That’s why our MuckBiotics has earned the...
Utilizing Copper with Biological Products
Optimizing Copper-Based Algaecide Applications with Biological Products Enhance water quality with bacterial solutions alongside copper treatments. By Patrick Goodwin, M.S., CLM Copper-based algaecides are commonly used in aquatic management as a low-cost method to...
Midges Love Muck
Midges Love Muck A Win-Win Approach to Solve Multiple Lake Issues By Patrick Goodwin, M.S., CLM Figure 3. Sediment from the pond in Figure 1. It’s a fact: midges love muck. Aquatic midges find their breeding paradise in pond muck, where the soft, mucky sediment...
Revolutionizing Lake Health: Why Oxygen Saturation Technology Beats Aeration Every Time
Revolutionizing Lake Health: Why Oxygen Saturation Technology Beats Aeration Every Time by Patrick Goodwin, M.S., CLM Oxygen management is one of the most common water quality restoration techniques used worldwide. This is because restoring deep water dissolved oxygen...
Effects of Biocatalysts on Cattail Treatments
Effects of Biocatalysts on Cattail Treatment by Gray Turnage (Mississippi State University), Paul Tseng (Mississippi State University), and Michael Frett (Natural Lake Biosciences) Background After treatment with herbicides, decaying plant material in U.S. water...
Product Photo Contest
Time to get your cameras ready! Its time for our photo contest. Rules: To participate, simply take a photo featuring Natural Lake products or our company swag and share it on social media using the hashtag #Naturalakeproduct2023. Don’t forget to tag us so we...Pond Turnover & Oxygen
How does a lake receive Oxygen? Lakes receive oxygen from the atmosphere and through photosynthesis. Atmospheric oxygen is added from wind moving across the surface area of a lake. With more wind, more oxygen is added to the lake from the atmosphere. However, as...Lake Water Clarity and Color: Sources and Management
Water clarity and color facts Water clarity is how cloudy the water is and is determined by how far downlight can penetrate through the water column. Watercolor is when light hits dissolved or suspended material in water, and certain wavelengths of light are reflected...Aquatic Midges: The Overlooked Menace of Lakes
When we think about midge flies, it’s often in reference to “black swarms” in someone’s backyard that are in such high densities it limits recreational activities or, worse, cause economic damage by destroying light fixtures or property paint. This alone warrants...
Lake Recreation Contest
Lake Recreation Contest Rules: Share your best lake recreation or fishing photos on social media (or email), and be sure to tag @naturallakebiosciences. All entries must be received by September 24th. We will be accepting entries through, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,...
Golf Photo Contest
Send us your best golf course photo to win a $500 Amazon gift card! Rules: Photo submissions must be taken at a golf course with a water feature. Be sure to use the hashtag #Naturallakegolf and tag us when sharing your photos. The contest is open to all golf course...
PondZilla Pro Study
Pithophora Testing by Deborah Lee, and Michael Frett of Naturallake Biosciences Laboratories Research was conducted to measure how the addition of PondZilla Pro affects treatment efficacy of Pithophora when combined with copper algaecides. Abstract Pithophora is a...
Fishing Contest
Summer Fishing Contest Rules: Share your best fishing or fish photo on social media, and be sure to tag @naturallakebiosciences. All entries must be received by August 15th. We will be accepting entries through, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and email....
Where Does Muck Go?
This quite possibly could be the most common question we get here at Natural Lake Biosciences. Where does the muck go when MuckBiotics is used to break it down? While our scientists could spend hours talking about the technical details and complexities of this...