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: 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 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 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...
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 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...
Changing the Nutrient Management Game For Aquatic Professionals by Landon Wiet, Vice President MetaFloc being utilized to treat external and internal sources of nitrogen and phosphorus Major challenges to nutrient management Identifying all nutrient loads from...
5 Factors Influencing Pond Muck Decomposition and How to Optimize It by Patrick Goodwin, M.S., CLM & Deborah Lee, Natural Lake Biosciences Senior Microbiologist Lake aging, a process by which organic muck accumulates due to incomplete decomposition, leads to...
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...
3 Reasons Why OST ™ Will Change Fisheries Management Forever by Patrick Goodwin, M.S., CLM The standard two-step aeration procedure in fisheries management hasn’t changed in 60 years: Bottom-diffused aeration plus a series of surface aerators. The bottom-diffused...
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