We hope you will join us for the 2020 Macatawa Watershed Annual Meeting. The meeting will include Hope College student research presentations, a report of FY20 accomplishments from the MACC and Project Clarity and an update on Lake Macatawa water quality monitoring from the GVSU Annis Water Resources Institute.

All are welcome to attend and there is no cost. Registration is required by noon on November 13 and is limited to the first 100 participants. We will send a confirmation email with the Zoom connection information.

Student research presentations will include:

Surveying the presence of heavy metals in Lake Macatawa sediment samples
Kaylee DeRoo, Helen Holt, Christian Lundy, and Jacob VanderRoest

Determination of heavy metals and pesticides accumulation in Earthworms, Lumbricus rubellus, collected from the Macatawa watershed
Dominic DeVito, Erin Kahn, and Madison Kerber

Assessment of Macro Plastic Pollution in Storm Drain Discharge due to Rain Events in the Holland Area
Kaelyn Lagerwall, Kate Kay, and Alex Vasquez

Presentation Abstracts