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Donate to Castle Lake!

Help students learn Limnology! Help summer crews at Castle Lake gain valuable field experience; help maintain the Castle Lake lab for summer research and monitoring. Help perpetuate research at Castle Lake and the 45+ year dataset. Your help is very much needed!

Please consider making a monitary contribution to the project. Castle Lake has been vital to the study of limnology and over 40 Ph.D. and Master's theses, and has been the topic of numerous articles, reports, conference proceedings, and posters.

Your contribution is tax-deductable; you are funding education, research, and science, for the students of tomorrow.

Make checks payable to: Friends of Castle Lake

And sent it to:

Castle Lake Limnology
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
University of California at Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

Thank you for your support!

Driving Directions to Castle Lake

Castle Lake is located in the Shasta National Forest of northern California, about 8 miles southwest of Mt. Shasta City (41.13' N, 122.22' W).

• I-5 northbound, travel to Mt. Shasta City and take the Central Mt. Shasta City exit. At the end of the off-ramp, turn left back over the freeway.

  From I-5 southbound, drive to Mt. Shasta City and take the Central Mt. Shasta exit. Turn right.

• At the stop sign, turn left on Old Stage Road. The fish hatchery should be straight ahead of you.
• Keep to the right at the first fork.
• Continue passing golf course on left and afterward Lake Siskiyou on right.
• After crossing the dam, take a sharp left turn. There is a sign beforehand pointing to Castle Lake, approximately 7 miles up the road.
• Once you arrive at the Castle Lake parking lot, look for a trail near the bathrooms leading around the right side (north side) of the lake.

  The lab is located about 0.25 mile down the trail. You can't miss it.

  If you cross the outflow of the lake, you are going in the opposite direction.

Website Acknowledgments

The creation of this website has been an ongoing collaborative effort by many people. We would like to thanks those who have made contributions.

Contributors

Cigdem Alemdar: phytoplankton and zooplankton photos
Jacquelyn Brownstein: photos
Jim Elser: original hypercard stacks where some content in the foodweb section was used
Brooke Eustis: geological GIS maps, photos
Annie French: photos
Ali Ger: original drafts in foodweb and research sections, photos
Crissy Gilbert: photos
René Henery: original draft in the foodweb and research sections, Castle Lake Newsletter, photos
George Malyj: point of contact, photos
Erich Marzolf: original hypercard stacks where some content in the foodweb section was used
Erik Runquist: photos
Ted Swift: website editing, photos
Dave Waetjen: website administration, original drafts in the foodweb, geography, and research sections, news additions, photos