Andrea Paine 11/08/2022 Monitoring Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Concludes Stellar Season With the help of over 30 volunteers from across Southeast Michigan, HRWC’s annual Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Program concluded its… Read More »
Paul Steen 10/14/2022 Monitoring Thirty Years of Bugs and Citizen Science Part 2 HRWC is celebrating 30 years of River Roundups, our macroinvertebrate monitoring program! In 1992, a group of pioneering staff and… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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,… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »