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Ric Lawson 07/09/2022 Monitoring Twenty Years of Volunteer Water Sampling

Chemistry and Flow program grows and changes HRWC’s Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Program (“Chem and Flow”), formerly the Water Quality…

Andrea Paine 05/03/2022 Monitoring Digital Data Collection

HRWC upgrades its Huron River monitoring programs When the pandemic hit just prior to the launch of the 2020 field…

Paul Steen 04/28/2022 Lakes How to Stop Loving our Lakes to Death

Monitoring and management is key Michigan is the land of 11,000 lakes. Indeed, our state is nearly overflowing with lakes,…

Paul Steen 01/26/2022 Adopt-A-Stream Fall 2021 River Roundup Results Reviewed

The 2021 River Roundup was a great success– we had many volunteers serve on teams that visited streams across the…

Kate Laramie 10/12/2021 Monitoring Fall River Roundup – A New Normal?

Fall River Roundup marked an exciting milestone as HRWC’s first monitoring event open to new volunteers since the start of…

Kate Laramie 03/25/2021 Monitoring 2021 Stonefly Search Results and Stories

Like all events held during the pandemic, this year’s Stonefly Search in January looked a little different. Volunteers met in…

Kate Laramie 11/09/2020 Monitoring River Roundup 2020 Wrap up

The fall River Roundup was a great success thanks to a dedicated group of veteran volunteers and a little extra…

Paul Steen 10/23/2020 Monitoring Swimming in Plastic Redux

Microplastics are prevalent, but mysterious Plastic is a part of life for 21st century humans. What happens when plastic items…

Andrea Paine 10/20/2020 Monitoring Lights, Camera, Analyze!

HRWC pilots low-cost spectrophotometer to analyze water pollution Around this time of year, neon green algal blooms begin to form in Lake Erie, undermining recreation,…

Kate Laramie 04/07/2020 Monitoring Stoneflies in the Snow!

This year’s Stonefly Search was a great success, with 145 volunteers (!) coming out on a Saturday to hunt for…

Pam Labadie 02/20/2020 Monitoring Working with impact, Downriver chemistry and flow monitoring

GROWING VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT FOR DOWNRIVER MONTIORING Through New Recruitment Strategies and Working Partnerships A special excerpt on HRWC’s Chemistry and…

Anita Daley 10/16/2019 Monitoring Citizen Scientists Take to the Streams

We had a great turnout last Saturday for our 2019 Fall River Roundup with 155 volunteers spreading out to 46…

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