Join us for an upcoming Regional Lakes Meeting to discuss road salt before the winter season approaches. We'll share a brief update with key points from our salt management plan and you'll also hear about new equipment that the Town of Sunapee recently purchased to calibrate and more precisely control the amount of salt being applied.

This is a great opportunity for members of lake and pond associations across the region to share ideas, concerns, and to learn more about what's being done in other local towns too. Please come willing to share lessons learned and wins for your waterbody related to road salt.

Click here to register. A Zoom link will be provided for those who are unable to attend in person.

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 wish farewell to the warm days of summer and welcome fall and all of the special things it brings.

This erosion control field day is designed for code compliance officers, public works personnel, town boards that approve plans and service professionals working in soils, erosion control, water quality and stormwater system designs.  Click here to view a brochure for the event.

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Come aboard with LSPA for an excursion on the MV. MT. Sunapee II under the light of the full moon. We’ll enjoy the late summer views around Lake Sunapee on this cruise, our annual fundraiser for LSPA’s education programs. Complete with trivia (and prizes!), refreshments, and a cash bar, it’s an evening you don’t want to miss! Cruise will be from 5:00 - 7:00pm, with a 4:45pm board time.

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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 morning join us to fly with the raptors and find out what hawks, falcons and more are migrating south and why.

Join Dr. Jess Trout-Haney of Dartmouth and LSPA Burkehaven Fellow Maura Beatty for a look at LSPA’s collaborative cyanobacteria monitoring and research this summer.

Jess and Maura will share what we’ve learned about measuring and tracking cyanobacteria populations in Lake Sunapee. This work has allowed us to establish standardized monitoring protocols and strengthen our research collaborations. The resulting datasets provide essential baseline information for better understanding the drivers of cyanobacterial blooms and the role of cyanobacteria in the lake’s food web.

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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 morning join us to traverse the magnificent world of mushrooms. With their variety different colors, shapes, and more there’s so much to explore!

Instructors from UNH T2 (Technology Transfer Center) will be spilling some hot tea about an icy topic: liquids and treated salts for winter operations! In this session, they'll discuss misconceptions and gossip about materials to help reduce chlorides in anti- and de-icing operations, and give you the straight truth about adding new materials to your winter operations toolbox (want some sugar with that?). They'll review how they work, when they work, and how to increase your program's efficiency and effectiveness, including even cost-effectiveness, while being aware of your environmental footprint. 

This workshop is geared for municipal attendees and private contractors. 

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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 morning join us to examine the wide variety of nuts and seeds in our area and where they come from.

This Growing Up WILD workshop is designed for educators and caretakers of children ages 3–7 who want to spark curiosity and wonder about the natural world. Through fun, hands-on activities and shared discussion, participants will explore ways to connect young children with nature through play, stories, art, music, and movement. The workshop will highlight how to integrate science and environmental concepts into early childhood learning in developmentally appropriate ways, both indoors and outdoors. Participants will leave with practical ideas and confidence to bring wildlife and nature exploration into everyday classroom routines, childcare settings, and family playtime.

All participants will take home their own copy of the Growing Up WILD curriculum book and receive a certificate for completing this 3-hour professional development workshop.

Growing Up WILD is part of the Project WILD family: www.projectwild.org.

COST:  $40, Instructions on how to pay will be emailed to you after you register. 

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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 morning join us for a pumpkin palooza, a celebration of the pumpkin from its seed to its stem.

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 New Hampshire’s bats and their awesome attributes.

Prepare your teams & equipment for winter with a full day "Snowfighters' Seminar" with UNH T2!  We'll review best practices & innovations in winter operations including equipment and anti-icing & de-icing options as well as information and resources to support calibration.  Discussion will include how salt works - and how it doesn't work - brine, liquids, and pre-treat & pre-wet options, as well as determining application rates from awareness of pavement and air temperature, weather forecast, and other variables.  We'll also discuss winter safety, as well as driver wellness and defensive & safe driving. 

This training is geared for private snow contractors. Emphasis on parking lots, sidewalks, and commercial site maintenance. 

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**Please note the date has changed from October 14 to October 28.

Join Burkehaven Fellow, Maren Elvidge as she shares findings from her research on septic systems within the Lake Sunapee watershed. Her work identified areas that may be particularly vulnerable to impacts from a septic system failure. During this presentation, Maren will explore what the research uncovered and how these findings can help guide future watershed protection strategies and inform LSPA’s educational efforts to safeguard soil health and water quality. Come learn what’s happening beneath the surface—and how understanding septic system risks can help us better protect the future health of Lake Sunapee.

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