| Position | Name | Affiliation or Profession | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chair | Mike Christensen | EPCOR | Edmonton |
| Vice-Chair | Kellie Nichiporik | Moose Lake Watershed Society | Bonnyville |
| Treasurer | Adam Norris | Environmental Steward | Edmonton |
| Secretary | Breda Muldoon | Environmental Consultant | Edmonton |
| Director | Dorte Koster | Environmental Consultant | Edmonton |
| Director | Jay White | Aquality Environmental Consulting | Edmonton |
| Director | Stephanie Neufeld | EPCOR | Edmonton |
| Director | Phil Sutton | Lake Steward | Edmonton |
| Director | Brendan Ganton | Lakeland College | Vermillion |
| Director | Wendell Koning | Limnologist | Calgary |
| Director | Devon Shouldice | GIS Specialist | Calgary |
| Director | Rosemarie Ferjuc | Red Deer River Watershed Alliance | Red Deer |
| Staff: Executive Director | Bradley Peter | ALMS | Edmonton |
| Staff: Program Manager | Caleb Sinn | ALMS | Edmonton |
| Staff: Program Coordinator | Kurstyn Cappis | ALMS | Edmonton |
| Staff: Program Technician | Kirsten Letendre | ALMS | Edmonton |
Bradley Peter, Executive Director
Bradley is the Executive Director of the Alberta Lake Management Society. Bradley completed a B.Sc. in Ecology in 2010 at the University of Alberta with a special interest in freshwater biology. Bradley has spent 12 years working on lakes and community based monitoring programs with a goal of improving our understanding and the management of lakes, reservoirs, and their watersheds. In his “spare” time Bradley loves to go bowling with friends.
Caleb Sinn, Program Manager
Caleb’s passion for freshwater ecology developed after spending many summers throughout his childhood at Gull Lake, exploring Alberta’s mountain national parks, and fishing in southern British Columbia. He graduated from the University of Alberta in 2019 with a B.Sc. double-major in Biology and Chemistry, and focused his studies specifically on community and freshwater ecology, environmental chemistry, and analytical chemistry. He also spent two years working on freshwater ecology projects ranging from mountain lake sampling to cyanobacteria monitoring and algal pigment analysis at the University of Alberta. Caleb was a LakeWatch technician in the summer of 2019, and looks forward to coordinating lake monitoring projects and public outreach across Alberta as the ALMS Program Manager.
Kurstyn Cappis, Program Coordinator
Kurstyn’s love for lakes began as a child, spending many summers at her family cabin at Pigeon Lake. She graduated from the University of Alberta in 2015 with a B.Sc. in Environmental and Conservation Sciences, with a major in Conservation Biology. In winter 2022, she joined ALMS to support its winter programs and then became a LakeWatch Technician in summer 2022, and learned lots about freshwater and invasive species monitoring. You will find her in a new role as the Program Coordinator, leading our new water quality program for Indigenous Community Based Monitoring in the Oil Sands regions. She is looking forward to continuing her work in aquatic ecosystem management and connecting with new communities across Alberta.
Kirsten Letendre, Program Technician
Kirsten’s passion for lakes started as a young girl spending her winters on McLeod Lake, ice fishing, and her summers on Pigeon Lake, camping, fishing and doing water sports. Her childhood passions continued into adulthood, and you can typically find Kirsten outside, near some body of water. She graduated from Grant MacEwan University in 2022 with a B.Sc., majoring in Biological Sciences. She has spent time working in a biology lab, working with orphaned and injured wildlife, and working on a fish monitoring study, looking at the health of fish in lakes across Alberta. Kirsten is looking forward to going out to various lakes in Alberta this winter for water monitoring and learning more about Alberta’s amazing aquatic ecosystems.
The members of the steering committee will continue to play a strong role in facilitating and tracking implementation actions. This includes any actions they were responsible for, as well as tracking other committees and sector’s actions and progress made towards achieving the plan’s outcomes. Ongoing communication is essential to successful implementation and achieving outcomes, therefore a regular reporting mechanism could be set up in order to provide regular evaluation of the plan.
Reporting is an essential component of any watershed management planning and implementation process. There are two main types of reporting that should be shared with stakeholders on a regular basis: implementation reporting & effectiveness reporting.
There is no limit to the number or types of lake management actions, but they typically fall into the categories on the right.
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The development of a lake watershed management plan provides the guidance needed to implement activities, but the plan cannot be static. Monitoring the performance of your management actions is essential to understanding whether your goals have been met, and whether further actions are needed. Monitoring and evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of a lake watershed management plan allows assessment of progress towards the goals and objectives of the plan, identification of problems and opportunities, and a collection of critical information required when performing a 5 or 10 year review of the plan.
What has the monitoring results of the plan and of the indicators shown? Is there a need to modify the plan? It is important that the lake watershed management plan does not just sit on a shelf. Information gaps should be addressed, action items need to be managed, completed, and evaluated to best address the needs of the lake. Always keep in mind the vision: if the actions taken are not bringing the lake closer to that vision, then the plan needs to be modified. Consider updating both the state of the watershed and the lake watershed management plans at regular intervals to make sure that the actions taken were achieving the desired outcomes and to evaluate what work still needs to be done.
Once a plan has been approved by all affected sectors and officially endorsed and released by the steering committee, then implementation can begin in full. Action projects can be large and comprehensive, or made smaller by staging projects over time or into modules that can be tackled one at a time. Fundraising is an issue that many community groups may find intimidating, but experience with programs such as the Pine Lake Restoration Program (see 
This graphic describes how the various committees and groups will work and interact together. The circle size depicts the approximate number of people involved, and the circles overlapping indicates that some individuals may reside in all of the circles and participate in multiple committees as part of the planning process. The technical committee is shown as an arrow, indicating that it is independent and has relatively few people, and yet it interacts with all of the groups. This graphic may look different depending on the lake and the people involved, and a detailed structure should be agreed upon and described in the plan’s Terms of Reference (Step 6).