CUAHSI Webinar Series – Integrating Citizen Science and Water Resource Work The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc. (CUAHSI), sponsored by the National Science Foundation is hosting an ongoing webinar series. The webinars will cover logistics and organizational requirements to manage successful citizen science projects, methods-focused sessions to share best practices […]
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Over 20 years of monitoring in Centre County, PA The Centre County Pennsylvania Senior Environmental Corps at ClearWater Conservancy (CCPaSEC) began monitoring streams in April 2002. The group had support from the Centre County Conservation District. Additionally, they partnered with numerous organizations including, watershed associations, and academic institutions. CCPaSEC volunteer scientist teams have monitored a […]
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Posted on January 31, 2023
Save Our Streams: 2022 Spotlight The Izaak Walton League’s Virginia Save Our Streams (VASOS) program wants to take a moment to reflect on the incredible progress made in 2022 monitoring waterways in Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay region. This year, VASOS welcomed 168 new monitors to the team, who joined to support the mission to […]
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Posted on January 30, 2023
Stream Team Soars in 2022: Expanding Reach, Enriching Experience, and Driving Data 2022 was a successful year for the Stream Team program! In the past year, ALLARM at Dickinson College expanded the program to three new counties: Clinton, Lycoming, and Susquehanna; this added 24 new monitors. In addition to expanding the geographic reach of the […]
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Posted on January 30, 2023
RiverTrends: A Wave of Success in 2022 The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay’s RiverTrends program had a successful year in 2022, delivering valuable results through its water quality monitoring program. The program trained 41 new volunteer monitors, and expanded its reach by adding 15 new monitoring sites across Virginia. RiverTrends has a dedicated team of […]
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Posted on December 30, 2022
CMC Shines on the NWQMC Webinar The CMC team leads, Liz Chudoba, Julie Vastine, Sam Briggs, and Peter Tango, recently presented on the National Water Quality Monitoring Council’s (NWQMC) webinar series. The NWQMC was created in 1997 as a vehicle for bringing together diverse expertise needed to develop collaborative approaches for monitoring and assessing our […]
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Posted on December 30, 2022
PFAS and Chloride Pollution at the MWMC Conference This December the Izaak Walton League of America’s (IWLA) Clean Water Team attended and tabled at the 2022 Maryland Water Monitoring Council’s (MWMC) conference in Linthicum Heights, MD. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) runs the conference every year as an opportunity for all stakeholders across […]
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Posted on December 21, 2022
Collaborative presentation at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum! With the announcement of this year’s Chesapeake Watershed Forum theme, “Nature in Your Neighborhood: Connecting Communities to the Outdoors,” the CMC team was excited to propose a session that would highlight the benefits of community based aquatic assessments. Water quality monitoring is a great way for a community […]
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Posted on November 21, 2022
Fall Training and Monitoring Recap The Izaak Walton League’s Virginia Save Our Streams program wrapped up the fall training and monitoring season with three recent events. We hosted a second training at Lake Anna State Park in Virgina to certify even more monitors in the area. A crew of new monitors in the area will […]
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