The Utah Lake Water Quality Study Science Panel is a disciplinary-based panel whose members have scientific expertise relevant to Utah Lake. The Panel identifies data gaps, provides recommendations to the Steering Committee, oversees research activities, and implements a process for independent peer review, among other responsibilities.
Next meeting
Science panel meeting
- TBD
Past meetings
2025
August 12-13, 2025
- Agenda
- Presentations (Page Descriptions Below)
- Water Quality Model Applications: Page 1
- Utah Lake Watershed Model Update: Page 18
- Utah Lake Water Quality Model Update: Page 33
- Technical Support Update and Next Steps: Page 86
- Technical Support Update: Stressor Response: Page 97
- Technical Support Update: Reference: Page 133
- Utah Lake Watershed Reference Condition Scenario: Page 153
- Evaluating Paleoecological Approaches for Utah Lake: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches: Page 162
- Technical Support Update: Literature: Page 191
- Technical Support Update: Weight of Evidence: Page 201
- Meeting Summary
- Video Archive
2024
September 4-5, 2024
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Charge Question Response Development and Next Steps (page 1)
- Sediment and Mass Balance Charge Questions (page 16)
- Technical Support Document Update (page 24)
- Weight of Evidence Approach Introduction (page 45)
- Weight of Evidence: Application for Transparent and Defensible Nutrient Criteria Development (page 56)
- Science Panel Update (page 120)
- Introduction to Implementation Planning (page 140)
- Meeting Summary
- Video Archive
June 20, 2024
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Charge Question Response Development and Next Steps (page 1)
- Technical Support Document Update (page 20)
- Mass Balance Analysis Update and Next Steps (page 46)
- Meeting Summary
- Video Archive
2023
June 29-30, 2023
- Agenda
- Presentations
- June 29, 2023
- June Sucker Program Recover Implementation Program Introduction (page 1)
- Overview of the June Sucker Recovery Program Ecosystem Monitoring Program (page 50)
- Determining the anthropogenic effects on eutrophication of Utah Lake Since European Settlement using Multiple Geochemical Approaches (Presentation unavailable)
- June 30, 2023
- Utah Lake Watershed Model Update (page 1)
- Introduction to the Lake Model Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis Approach (page 26)
- Mechanistic Model Stressor Response Analysis Approach (page 38)
- Project Orientation and Review of Technical Support Document (page 50)
- Meeting Summary
- Video Archive
- June 29, 2023
May 18-19, 2023
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Project Orientation and Technical Support Document (page 1)
- Stressor Response Analysis Update (page 9)
- Reference Conditions Analysis (page 58)
- Utah Lake Water Quality Model Update (page 82)
- Utah Lake Watershed Model Overview (page 140)
- Meeting Summary
- Video Archive
March 23-24-2023
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Technical Support Document Overview (page 1)
- SOD, Nutrient Fluxes, and Sediment Characteristics (page 17)
- Technical Support Document Overview (page 30)
- Sediment Diagenesis: The Missing Link (page 64)
- Overview of Utah Lake WASP Model Enhancements and Progress (page 121)
- Meeting Summary
- Video Archive
March 2, 2023
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Meeting Summary
- Video Archive
August 18, 2022 to February 23, 2023
- Meeting Outcomes
- Presentations
- Video Archive
- February 2, 2023
- January 26, 2023
- January 19, 2023
- January 10, 2023
- January 5, 2023
- December 22, 2022
- December 8, 2022
- December 1, 2022
- November 17, 2022
- November 10, 2022: Part 1 | Part 2
- November 3, 2022
- October 27, 2022
- October 20, 2022
- October 6, 2022
- September 29, 2022
- September 22, 2022
- September 15, 2022
- September 8, 2022
- August 18, 2022
2022
August 3, 2022
June 16, 2022
April 28, 2022
March 16, 2022
February 17, 2022
- Agenda
- Meeting Summary
- Presentations
- Video Archive
January 19, 2022–Joint Meeting with the ULWQS Steering Committee
- Agenda
- Meeting Summary
- Presentations
- ULWQS Charge Questions Reporting (page 1)
- Implementation Framework – Next Steps (page 14)
- Video Archive
2021
October 20, 2021
- Agenda
- Meeting Summary
- Presentations
- Historical Conditions Interim Progress Report (page 1)
- Macrophytes and Diatoms Interim Progress Report (page 11)
- Sediments Interim Progress Report (page 20)
- Fish, Aquatic Life, and birds Interim Progress Report (page 27)
- HABs Interim Progress Report (page 36)
- Criteria Development Interim Progress Report (page 47)
- Lake and Watershed Model Development (page 54)
- Video Archive
July 26, 2021
June 10, 2021
May 13, 2021
April 20, 2021
March 15, 2021
2020
December 14, 2020
November 4, 2020
Panel Call #18
October 28, 2020
Panel Call #17
October 21, 2020
Panel Call #16
September 18, 2020
Panel Call #15
August 28, 2020
Panel Call #14
May 28, 2020
May 21, 2020
2020 Science Panel Call #12
March 19-20, 2020
Science Panel Call #7
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Meeting Summary
March 3, 2020
Science Panel Call #11
January 23, 2020
Science Panel Call #10
Science Panel Call #10
2019
December 10-11, 2019
Science Panel Meeting #6
- Agenda
- Presentations
- December 10, 2019
- Utah Lake Sediment Nutrient Interactions
- Bioassays to Investigate Nutrient Limitation of Utah Lake
- Paleolimnology and Paleoecology of Utah Lake
- Approaches for Uncertainty associated with Consensus-based Decision Making and Mechanistic Modeling
- Numeric Nutrient Criteria Framework
- Utah Lake Model Development Update
- December 11, 2019
- Strategic Research Plan Development
- Recap Connections between Framework, Uncertainty, and Strategic Research Plan
- Data Characterization Analysis Plan Results and Discussion
- Update and Discussion on Conceptual Models
- Factors Affecting the Ecological Health and Integrity of Utah Lake
- Utah Lake Mass Balance Analysis Update
- December 10, 2019
- Meeting Summary
September 30, 2019
Science Panel Call #9
July 10-11, 2019
Science Panel Meeting #5
- Agenda
- Presentations
- An “omnics” approach to cyanobacteria ecology in Utah Lake
- Utah Lake food web and ecosystem research
- Phosphorus and algae growth in Utah Lake
- Utah Lake loading analysis
- Nutrient criteria framework, conceptual models, and data characterization analysis plan
- Utah Lake Sediment water nutrient interactions
- Data gaps analysis
- Overview of DWQ’s nutrient removal cost impact study
- Meeting Summary
June 13, 2019
Science Panel Call#8
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Meeting Summary
April 25, 2019
Science Panel Call #7
- Agenda
- Materials
- Presentations
- Meeting Summary
March 11-12, 2019
Science Panel Meeting #4
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Conceptual Model Update
- June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program
- Phosphorus in Utah Lake Sediments
- Phosphorus, grazers, and temperatures may intensify Utah Lake HABs
- Literature Review Update
- Uncertainty Guidance Development
- RFP Development
- Analysis Plan Update
- DWQ 2019 Draft Sampling and Analysis Plan
- Meeting Summary
February 8, 2019
Science Panel Meeting #3
2018
December 5, 2018
Science Panel Call #6
October 31, 2018
Informational Call on Science Panel Operating Principles
This informational call with the Steering Committee and Science Panel discussed proposed changes to the Science Panel Operating Principles document to further clarify management of conflicts of interest.