This summer, we’re proud to partner with the Iowa Cancer Consortium to promote sun safety and skin cancer awareness! Through their Sun-Safety Community Project, we were able to receive 3 GALLONS of sunscreen for community use!
Sunscreen is available at the entrance to Waitt Lab, the Dining Hall, & in our Environmental Education Classroom!
“Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the U.S. Many types of skin cancer cannot spread (metastasize) to other organs, but some types of skin cancer are deadly. The deadliest form of skin cancer is called melanoma. Iowa has the 5th highest incidence rate of melanoma in the country, and our rates are growing faster than other states” (Iowa Cancer Registry, 2024)
Visit the Consortium website for more information & resources on Cancer in Iowa: Iowa Cancer Consortium
Learn more about melanoma & how to protect yourself from the sun’s rays: Sunblock Uncovered
This program is made possible by the Iowa Cancer Consortium, the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, and the Melanoma Program at the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.
TUESDAY NIGHT LECTURE
Please note the schedule changes, tomorrow (7/22) 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
Hidey Holes!
5 PM
Mahan Hall
July Little Sioux River Events
Prairie, Savanna, and Woodland: Critters of the Little Sioux River with Dr. Jim Pease (ISU Emeritus)
Friday, July 25th at 4:30 PM at Clay Co. Heritage Center
Paddle with Pease!
Saturday, July 26th – Meet at Riverside Park Access by 9 AM for a 5 mile paddle on the Little Sioux!
Prairie, Savanna, and Woodland: Critters of the Little Sioux River with Dr. Jim Pease
Sunday, July 27th at 2 PM at Sanford Museum
Whose Poop is in the Water? with Dr. Claire Hruby (Drake)
Monday, July 28th at 7 PM at Iowa Lakeside Lab in Mahan Hall
Kirchner Cabin Archaeology with Dr. Mark Anderson (Sanford Museum)
Monday, July 28th at 6:30 PM at Sanford Museum
Field Notes
Arrival at Lakeside
by MF Charles (2025 Writer-in-Residence)
Erasures in the robin’s egg skys
ragged voids where the sun’s bright
could not pass, cast grey spotlights
sweeping along
on all below
slow raindrops nail the sky to the tin roof
dripping over the eaves
onto the porch of long rough boards
oily wetness collecting in the crevasses
at my door
an empty eye of a knot-hole marks
nonjudgmentally
my comings and goings
The sun pokes through from the west
eager and sharp
around the corner of the Brown Motel
onto the greensward
two youngling maples like a henge
lead shadows pointing
into the west.
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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