{"id":30595,"date":"2018-10-29T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=30595"},"modified":"2018-11-02T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:37:29","slug":"catching-up-with-the-flathead-lake-bio-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/catching-up-with-the-flathead-lake-bio-station.htm","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up With the Flathead Lake Bio Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, EM was able to speak with<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/flbs.umt.edu\/newflbs\/about-flbs\/people\/page-elements\/flbs-people\/people\/jim-elser\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jim Elser<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a limnologist who is Director of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/flbs.umt.edu\/newflbs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Yellow Bay, and the Bierman Professor of Ecology for the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umt.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Montana (UM)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Dr. Elser caught us up on some of the exciting work happening at FLBS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe like to call it the oldest year round freshwater field station in North America, we&#8217;ve been around since 1899,\u201d remarks Dr. Elser. \u201cWe have about 25 to 30 full-time, year-round employees. We have four tenure-track faculty members of the University of Montana who are housed here year round, many other research faculty, staff scientists, administrators, and educators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three things in the FLBS mission fuels what the team does: advanced research, sustained monitoring of the lake and the watershed, and education at all levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe get about half of our annual budget from external research grants and indirect costs from those, about a quarter of our budget from the state of Montana, and the other quarter of what&#8217;s left more or less comes from philanthropic giving,\u201d explains Dr. Elser. \u201cThere&#8217;s a lot of people who care about the lake and support what we do and give us some money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given the rich history of the lake and its role in the area, that&#8217;s no surprise. UM professor Morton Elrod founded the FLBS back when the lake was very difficult to access.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat was this time of the roving natural historian, the great naturalist, and back when he came up here, Missoula was probably a 2 or three-day journey,\u201d Dr. Elser describes. \u201cHe was also involved in laying out the boundaries of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/glac\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Glacier National Park<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; he would go up there in the summers and lead hikes. He was a sort of innovator in ecotourism, as we would call it now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30605\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30605\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-offers-some-unique-terrain-for-researchers-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Flathead Lake\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-offers-some-unique-terrain-for-researchers-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-offers-some-unique-terrain-for-researchers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-offers-some-unique-terrain-for-researchers-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-offers-some-unique-terrain-for-researchers-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-offers-some-unique-terrain-for-researchers-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-offers-some-unique-terrain-for-researchers-940x627.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">FLBS offers some unique terrain for researchers. Credit: Dr. Jim Elser, via communication.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Significance of monitoring Flathead Lake<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People in the region are driven to conduct research at FLBS for multiple reasons, but one of the main drivers is the lake itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s not just any lake; it&#8217;s the largest freshwater lake in the western United States,\u201d comments Dr. Elser. \u201cFlathead Lake is bigger than Lake Tahoe. It&#8217;s a big economic driver for western Montana.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, the lake has a high economic impact on the region in terms of real estate values and tourist dollars, and its water quality is extremely high. But that&#8217;s not the whole story for locals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI always think of it as sort of like it was when I grew up in New England,\u201d Dr. Elser describes. \u201cIn New England, we went to Cape Cod in the summer. That&#8217;s where you went. For western Montana or for a lot of this whole region, going to Flathead Lake in the summer is like going to Cape Cod for a New Englander. You did, your family did, and they did it for generations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team at FLBS has maintained a very standardized monitoring program of the lake that was set up in 1977.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe monitor the physical, chemical, and biological properties of Flathead Lake, especially focusing on nutrient dynamics and water quality,\u201d states Dr. Elser. \u201cWe also sample all the inflowing rivers, especially for nutrient budgets. We&#8217;ve also maintained, for a couple of decades, the research station on the middle fork of the Flathead River in the Nyack floodplain. We have a research cabin there, and a whole set of instrumented wells, so we do a lot of work on groundwater ecology and surface water\/groundwater interactions, and that kind of thing there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30601\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30601\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-boat-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Flathead Lake\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-boat-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-boat-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-boat-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-boat-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-boat-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_FLBS-boat-940x705.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The FLBS boat. (Credit: Dr. Jim Elser, via communication)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nutrient loading has remained one of the greatest challenges for the region surrounding the lake, and local authorities have been very successful dealing with that challenge\u2014in large part due to data from the biological field station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;ve only been here for three years, but back in the 1980s or so when signs of eutrophication were starting to appear, they had the data that were able to convince folks to do something about it,\u201d remarks Dr. Elser. \u201cA regional phosphate detergent ban was put in place, and sewage treatment plants in the major towns in the area were upgraded. So the lake has done pretty well, but we still have to worry about nutrients and septic systems now because people aren&#8217;t tied to wastewater treatment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Biological field stations in the era of climate change<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These days the FLBS team also works on sussing out the impacts of climate change on high elevation lakes in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30602\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30602\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_Glacier-National-Park-is-changing-600x421.jpg\" alt=\"Flathead Lake\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_Glacier-National-Park-is-changing-600x421.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_Glacier-National-Park-is-changing-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_Glacier-National-Park-is-changing-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_Glacier-National-Park-is-changing-940x660.jpg 940w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead_Lake_Glacier-National-Park-is-changing.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The landscape in Glacier National Park is changing. (Credit: Dr. Jim Elser, via communication)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe work on what I call the newborn lakes,\u201d explains Dr. Elser. \u201cThese are the lakes that are appearing as the glaciers retreat. In the last 50 or 60 years, a number of lakes have appeared in Glacier National Park where the glaciers used to be. So we&#8217;ve been we&#8217;ve been sampling those, and it&#8217;s quite a spectacular undertaking, and also a heck of a lot of work to get up there to some of those basins because they&#8217;re not served by trails or anything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus far, the team is just trying to characterize these nameless lakes\u2014but even that wouldn&#8217;t be possible without the biological field station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople wonder, what the heck is a field station?\u201d remarks Dr. Elser. \u201cPeople think about it as a tent in the woods with a microscope in it or something; we just don&#8217;t have the sense that field stations are a real gradient. I&#8217;ve been in field stations that are like that. And then there are other ones that are really well developed, and this is one of those.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Flathead Lake Bio Station is, truly, a hub of scientific inquiry in the region\u2014one that experts rely on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI always think, what is a field station about?\u201d queries Dr. Elser. \u201cI think of it as a piece of scientific infrastructure. Astronomers have big fancy telescopes and physicists have particle colliders. I think ecologists and environmental scientists have field stations. It&#8217;s sort of an investment in scientific infrastructure. There are things that just could not be studied or be discovered or be learned about without having this kind of facility available. It&#8217;s like a particle collider but for ecologists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Top image:\u00a0Flathead Lake Bio Station. (Credit: Dr. Jim Elser, via communication)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Flathead Lake Bio Station is a hub for ecological and biological research, not to mention lake monitoring and sensor technology design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":30598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32,8,49,1,510],"tags":[157,60,1188,1191,1187,1189,1186,1190,109,176],"class_list":["post-30595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-articles","category-lakes-reservoirs","category-newsfeed","category-rivers-streams","category-uncategorized","category-water-quality","tag-climate-change","tag-featured","tag-field-station","tag-flathead-lake","tag-flathead-lake-biological-station-flbs","tag-glacier-national-park","tag-jim-elser","tag-morton-elrod","tag-news-ticker","tag-top-story"],"remote_post_permalink":false,"remote_post_featured_image":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Catching Up With the Flathead Lake Bio Station<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Flathead Lake Bio Station is a hub for ecological and biological research, not to mention lake monitoring and sensor technology design.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/catching-up-with-the-flathead-lake-bio-station.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catching Up With the Flathead Lake Bio Station\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Flathead Lake Bio Station is a hub for ecological and biological research, not to mention lake monitoring and sensor technology design.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/catching-up-with-the-flathead-lake-bio-station.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Environmental Monitor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-29T13:38:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-11-02T14:37:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Flathead-Lake_Bio-Station.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2388\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1593\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Karla Lant\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Karla Lant\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/catching-up-with-the-flathead-lake-bio-station.htm#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/catching-up-with-the-flathead-lake-bio-station.htm\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Karla Lant\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/51170f7bfa3a05b94cea6f517ce4e79b\"},\"headline\":\"Catching Up With the Flathead Lake Bio Station\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-29T13:38:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-11-02T14:37:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/catching-up-with-the-flathead-lake-bio-station.htm\"},\"wordCount\":1104,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/catching-up-with-the-flathead-lake-bio-station.htm#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.fondriest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/Flathead-Lake_Bio-Station.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"climate change\",\"featured\",\"field station\",\"Flathead Lake\",\"Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS)\",\"Glacier National Park\",\"Jim Elser\",\"Morton Elrod\",\"news ticker\",\"top-story\"],\"articleSection\":{\"0\":\"Featured Articles\",\"1\":\"Lakes &amp; 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