From the Vermont DEC Website:

Help us monitor for cyanobacteria blooms this summer by becoming a trained monitor! The official cyanobacteria monitoring season will begin on June 26. Monitors will receive a training from DEC staff on how to recognize and report blooms, and commit to monitoring a location on a lake every week for 12 weeks or more on the same day of the week.

Follow the directions below to register for an lake in the Memphremagog Watershed.

Contact peter.isles@vermont.gov

• Preferred training date (current scheduled dates are May 30, 2:30-4:00 PM; June 1, 12:00-1:30 PM; June 8, 4-5:30 PM; June 19, 4:00-5:30 PM). If none of these dates work, please indicate general availability (e.g. days of week, times of day)
• Your Name (first and last)
• Phone number
• Email address
• Waterbody and town
• Specific site that you want to monitor (e.g. boat launch on Joe’s Pond), or assigned site number for returning volunteers who have this information
• Latitude and Longitude of the site (it is easy to drop a pin on google maps to see lat/long)
• Whether you have been a volunteer cyanobacteria monitor before.