| 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 | Little Smoky |
| Secretary | Breda Muldoon | Environmental Consultant | Edmonton |
| Director | Dörte Köster | Environmental Consultant | Edmonton |
| Director | Jay White | Aquality Environmental Consulting | Edmonton |
| Director | Stephanie Neufeld | EPCOR | Edmonton |
| Director | Brendan Ganton | Lakeland College | Vermillion |
| Director | Wendell Koning | Limnologist | Calgary |
| Director | Jennifer Kerr | Limnologist | Edmonton |
| Director | Devon Shouldice | GIS Specialist | Calgary |
| Director | Melissa Logan | Environmental Specialist | St. Albert |
| Director | Rosemarie Ferjuc | Wetland Ecologist | Calgary |
| Staff: Executive Director | Bradley Peter | ALMS | Edmonton |
| Staff: Program Manager | Brittany Onysyk | 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.
Brittany Onysyk, Program Manager
Growing up in a rural setting in Alberta, Brittany developed a great adoration of the environment. She has fond childhood memories camping around the province, and spent many summer days at lakes in the greater Edmonton region (especially Miquelon!). Having a deep appreciation for the environment and a desire to conserve it, Brittany graduated from the University of Alberta in 2018 with a B.Sc. in Environmental & Conservation Sciences, majoring in Land Reclamation. Brittany has held various field-based positions throughout the province, and is looking forward to expanding her knowledge on lake ecosystems as the Program Manager at ALMS. When she’s not out on the lake, you’ll find her out exploring with her dogs!
Kurstyn Perrin, Program Coordinator
Kurstyn’s love for lakes began as a child, by spending many summers at her family cabin at Pigeon Lake and by camping a lot around Alberta. 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 the winter programs and then became a LakeWatch Technician in the summer, and learned lots about freshwater and invasive species monitoring. You will find her in the new role as the Indigenous Community Based Monitoring (ICBM) Program Coordinator, leading our new water quality monitoring program working with Indigenous communities residing in the oil sands regions of Alberta. She is looking forward to continuing her work in aquatic ecosystem management and connecting with new communities across Alberta.
Kirsten Letendre, LakeWatch 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 started with ALMS in fall 2022 to support their winter programs and is now looking forward to exploring the province and learning more about Alberta’s amazing aquatic ecosystems as a LakeWatch Technician this summer.
Maddie Koning, LakeWatch Technician
Maddie has always enjoyed recreating on Alberta’s lakes. Her favourite outdoor activities include hiking, swimming, paddleboarding, and cycling. Her enjoyment of Alberta’s natural systems and lakes has grown into a passion for conservation and sustainability. Maddie graduated from The King’s University in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies, with a concentration in Social Sciences. Her coursework involved learning and researching the social dimensions of resource management. Maddie looks forward to learning more about Alberta’s aquatic ecosystems, and connecting with passionate Lakewatch volunteers.
Sarah Klimchuk, Recreational Water Technician
Sarah recently graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. Although she was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Sarah has been admiring the beauty and adventure within Alberta lakes and mountains throughout her life from Sylvan Lake to Sulphur Skyline Trail. Sarah began working with ALMS as an intern in 2021 for a research project with the University of Alberta, and took on the role of Recreational Water Technician in 2022. Sarah is excited to be back as Recreational Water Technician this summer and looking forward to working with Beach Operators, volunteers, and beach-goers this season to support and promote safe, healthy, and fun recreational water use!
Brandon Coull, Recreational Water Technician
Brandon’s interest in freshwater ecology began by spending his summers at Lac Sante fishing and boating. He always preferred spending his time outdoors and that led him to a career in biology. He went to the University of Alberta where he graduated with a B.Sc. specializing in ecology and conservation in 2022. Bandon focused his studies on freshwater communities and worked in a lab sampling streams across Alberta while in school. He is eager to start his job as a recreational water technician and is excited to see what the summer holds.
Jordyn Lajeunesse, Satellite Technician
Jordyn’s passion for the outdoors developed growing up in Saskatchewan, spending most of her time at the lakes. She was immersed in numerous activities, including camping, fishing, and other water recreational activities. She continues pursuing outdoor activities like backcountry camping, hiking, and exploring Alberta’s vast nature. She graduated from MacEwan University in 2023 with a B.Sc. majoring in Biology and looks forward to focusing on working with the community and freshwater ecology. She will be working on the Satellite project as a technician in the summer. She looks forward to learning more about algal blooms and using satellite imagery as a visualization tool to understand better algal bloom dynamics and how this varies across Alberta lakes.
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).