Tuesday Night Lecture Changes & Special Rate at the Okoboji Writers’ Retreat!
Lakeside
Weekly
TUESDAY NIGHT LECTURE SCHEDULE CHANGES
Please note the schedule changes, next week we’ll be hearing from Jed Siegwarth of the Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery for an update on the paddlefish reintroduction!
Return of the Paddlefish
with Jed Siegwarth
WILDWEDNESDAY
Next week:
Hidey Holes!
5 PM
Mahan Hall
The Okoboji Writers’ and Songwriters’ Retreat
SPECIAL RATE FOR FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE!
The event will take place from September 28th to October 1st, 2025, at the historic Iowa Lakeside Laboratory on the shores of West Lake Okoboji, offering writers and songwriters a unique blend of education, creativity, and community.
Scholarships are also available to assist writers from all backgrounds.
COFFEE & GROUNDS
Join our facilities manager, Matt Fairchild, on Tuesdays at 8:30 AM at the Waitt Lab to help manage our 147 acres of land! Work hard, make friends, & learn about native ecosystems while helping to restore Lakeside to its original prairie & oak savanna landscape. No experience required!
Coffee, snacks, & conversation to take place afterwards, around 9:30-10 AM, on the Waitt Lab deck.
Questions? More information? Call Matt at 712-260-1474
CLAMP
Cooperative Lakes Area Monitoring Project
Summer is almost here and CLAMP will be starting to sample in June!
Since 1999 this citizen science program has relied on the help of volunteers like YOU to collect samples for testing at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory’s water quality lab. This information is used to monitor the health of all the different lakes in the area & to inform decision makers like those at the Department of Natural Resources.
Boat not needed to join!
Contact megan-vigdal@uiowa.edu or ashley-scheve@uiowa.edu for more information!
Looking for a fun way to spend time in nature? Try our Treasure Hike! For all ages. Follow the map around campus to put the pieces together! Maps are available beginning Memorial Day weekend and can be found by the map in the parking lot, or in Waitt Lab.
Iowa Lakeside Laboratory is located on the homelands of several Indigenous nations including the Báxoǰe (Iowa), Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), Póⁿka (Ponca), Dakota/Lakota/Nakoda, and Sahnish/Nuxbaaga/Nuweta (Three Affiliated Tribes) and acknowledges the sovereignty and traditional territories of these people, the treaties that were used to remove them, and the histories of dispossession.
Mitakuye Oyasin – We are all related.
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