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Researchers measure reservoir silt October 29, 2007
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Mark Jakubauskas, a research associate professor for the Kansas Biological Survey, and Frank "Jerry" deNoyelles, KU ecology professor and associate director, survey bank erosion Friday at Kanopolis Lake southwest of Salina. Sedimentation has many top Kansas officials concerned about the future of Kansas' reservoirs, which are filling up with silt.
Frank "Jerry" deNoyelles, KU ecology professor, navigates through the waters of Kanopolis Lake. DeNoyelles is part of a team from the Kansas Biological Survey that is measuring silt accumulation in Kansas reservoirs.
Scott Campbell, associate director of the KU Field Station & Ecological Reserves for the Kansas Biological Survey, pushes a boat off the banks of Kanopolis Lake.
Frank "Jerry" deNoyelles, KU ecology professor of the Kansas Biological Survey, launches a boat off the banks of Kanopolis Lake southwest of Salina. DeNoyelles is part of a team of researchers that is measuring the silt filling up Kansas reservoirs.
Frank "Jerry" deNoyelles brings his boat to shore on the eroding banks of Kanopolis Lake southwest of Salina.
Frank "Jerry" deNoyelles, left, an associate director of Kansas Biological Survey, navigates a boat as Mark Jakubauskas, a research associate professor, monitors a computer displaying data collected in real-time from an instrument that measures sediment on the bottom of Kanopolis Lake. The team uses the $70,000 fish-finding equipment coupled with GPS to survey the bottom of Kansas' reservoirs, which are filling up with silt.
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