Tony Thorpe
Tony Thorpe has been the coordinator/program manager of the Lakes of Missouri Volunteer Program (LMVP) since 2001. The LMVP is a community science endeavor that since 1992 has collected over 20,000 water samples at over 300 lake locations across the state of Missouri. The samples are analyzed in the Aquatic Ecology laboratory at the University of Missouri. He has been on the Board of Directors for the Lake of the Ozarks Watershed Alliance since its creation in 2006 and is currently the Region 7 director at the North American Lake Management Society. He earned his MS at the University of Missouri by examining the relationship between heterotrophic bacteria in lakes and measures of trophic state.
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