Thank You CLAMP-ers! & There’s still time to register for the OWSR!
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THANK YOU TO OUR CLAMP VOLUNTEERS!
Our volunteers & staff celebrated a successful 2025 season with a presentation from Director, Mary Skopec on the post-2024 flood recovery data. CLAMP has been collecting data on the Iowa Great Lakes area since 1999, which would not be possible without our dedicated citizen scientists.
If you are interested in volunteering in 2026,
email Megan at megan-vigdal@uiowa.edu
UPCOMING Little Sioux River Events
Group Paddle with Dr. Jim Pease (Prof. Emeritus ISU) – Registration Required
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.
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.
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
Doing some spring cleaning?
We’re always accepting donations of:
Gently used furniture
Appliances
Cold weather children’s clothing
Recreation equipment
Text or call 712-759-4227 to arrange a donation!
LAKESIDE LAB TREASURE HIKE
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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