Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday we’ll read about a family of rabbits first experience of rainfall and their first day of spring.

The workshop portion of this event is full. Please join us for the expo from 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM and visit our outdoor stations with various topics!

Join us for an engaging workshop and expo event to learn how to manage stormwater runoff on your property.  A short classroom session will be followed by a local site visit where participants will learn how to read the landscape and discuss ways to slow down rainwater and promote infiltration into the soil.  Attendees will also learn about recent updates to LSPA’s Watershed Wise program and will hear from a participant about the changes he made to his landscape.

Following the earlier sessions, we will host an expo between 10:30 am - 12:00 pm. Stop by during this time period to visit outdoor stations on topics including native plants, permeable pavers, soil health and organic lawns, erosion control materials, NH LAKES LakeSmart program and more!

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Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday we will be investigating the plants and flowers blossoming at the beginning of June, and finding flowers of our own!

Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday we’ll be investigating the amazing world of insects and the many critters that live beneath our feet, can be found crawling on plants, and flit about in the air around us.

Join us at LSPA’s Water Quality Lab housed at Colby-Sawyer College to kickoff the 2026 monitoring season. Come meet the interns, tour the lab, review equipment procedures, and learn about any updates.

Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning join us to learn about the special relationship between butterflies and flowers and how each one helps the other!

What causes cyanobacteria to grow in lakes, and what does their presence mean for lake health and the people who use these waters? This talk will explore the science of cyanobacteria, why they grow, how they interact with lake ecosystems, the potential risks they pose. Dr. Trout-Haney will also discuss the unanswered questions scientists are still working to understand.

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Join fellow invasive watch volunteers for a training session on invasive species prevention and what species we need to keep an eye out for in our local lakes. Plant specimens will be available for attendees to look at. Current volunteers and anyone interested in learning more about identifying aquatic plants is welcome to attend! 

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Since joining LSPA as a Burkehaven Fellow in 2025, Alyssa Spencer has transformed important water quality data into tools and resources that have been instrumental in the success of projects aimed at improving water quality throughout the Lake Sunapee Watershed. Her work has included mapping septic failure data, modeling water quality risks in the watershed, and creating a new water quality database to analyze and visualize LSPA’s 40 years of water quality data. Her work beautifully communicates key messages about science in a way that is intuitive and engaging for audiences. We hope you will join us to hear more about her work, and how it has enhanced our ability to use our data to inform our community and our actions.

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Get your feet wet and join us for a field experience! Nick Baer, Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Colby Sawyer College, will lead us on a day of fun and learning about how fish are surveyed in streams using electrofishing. This is a hands-on experience so please come dressed to be outside, bring rain boots or waders if you have them (we will have extras), a snack and water.  This program is appropriate for adults and kids age 14 and up. Space is limited, register early.  We will begin at the Center for Lake Studies, then travel to a nearby tributary.

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LSPA Annual Meeting
July 18, 3:00 PM
LSPA’s Center for Lake Studies, 63 Main St, Sunapee, NH
Guest Speaker: Jeffrey Schloss, Emeritus Professor at UNH

Reception for Members
July 18, 4:30 PM
LSPA’s Center for Lake Studies, 63 Main St, Sunapee, NH

All are welcome! Click here to RSVP.