Here’s a fantastic class that happening in the San Francisco Bay Area that you’ll want to attend if you’re interested in ecological monitoring:
Basins of Relations: Starting and Sustaining Watershed Groups. It’s being taught by Brock Dolman, a fantastic instructor who will keep you entertained, engaged, enlightened and inspired:
This four-day intensive residential training is [...]
Today is World Water Monitoring Day, the kick-off for an awareness program for water quality monitoring. Participants will collect data between now and October 18, and report it via the web site by December 18. The web site also provides resources for teachers and event planners.
If you don’t have your own monitoring [...]
The latest edition of The Volunteer Monitor is available
— this is one of my favorite publications (blogged earlier here) and is essential reading for anyone interested in citizen science.
This edition features a beautifully written report by Eleanor Ely from last year’s citizen science conference, “Volunteer Monitoring and the Democratization of Science”. And it’s [...]
Here’s a terrific 20-page booklet for anyone interested in getting more involved with local watershed work: Basins of Relations: A Citizen’s Guide to Protecting and Restoring Our Wetlands:
The pages are packed with great information about steps to take for specific problems, resources, and ideas for further organizing and investigation. It’s also an excellent resource [...]
Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) is an organization at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which engages in citizen science watershed monitoring AND helps other groups start their own programs.
Their monitoring of Pennsylvania waterways resulted in detailed databases on pH and alkalinity in Pennsylvania streams. They’ve also created watershed atlases depicting land use, population [...]
There’s an incredible amount of citizen science being done by local groups, people who are involved in doing environmental research in their communities. I tend to not cover those groups much here; it feels, frankly, overwhelming…but I need to start, because the projects I usually post about here are really the tip of the iceberg.
One [...]
