Imagine a pristine, 52-acre glacial lake serving as a unique living laboratory for studying water quality and climate change. Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences will have access to just such a 13,000-year-old lake and more thanks to a recent agreement with the Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation to form an environmental research and education consortium at Lake Lacawac in the Pocono Mountains.
The agreement includes plans to construct a new research laboratory in Lacawac Sanctuary.
The sanctuary is a 545-acre nature preserve, ecological field research station and public environmental education facility in Wayne County that boasts over a mile of undisturbed shoreline on Lake Wallenpaupack, eastern Pennsylvania’s largest recreational lake. Preservation and research within Lake Lacawac and its surrounding watershed is critical because the upper Delaware River watershed serves more than 15 million people in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware and has been the focus of many public policy and research groups concerned with the environment.