Guest Blogger 03/14/2025 Monitoring Coral Reefs of the Forest My experience as a vernal pool monitoring volunteer As a lover of nature, I’d always been curious about the little… Read More »
Kelly McCabe 10/03/2024 Monitoring The Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Program Pilots New Innovations The HRWC Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Program’s twenty-third season was a year of experimentation. Volunteers took on new roles and… Read More »
Melina Pakey-Rodriguez 09/30/2024 Monitoring The Great 2024 Mussel Hunt (Newsletter Version) In summer of 2024, HRWC staff, interns, and volunteers embarked on an intensive mussel survey in the Huron River, declared… Read More »
Paul Steen 07/08/2024 Monitoring The Great 2024 Huron River Mussel Hunt! This summer the Huron River Watershed Council has been conducting a biological survey for freshwater mussels on the Huron River,… Read More »
Kelly McCabe 10/15/2023 Monitoring Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Season Wrap Up September marked the end of another great season of Chemistry and Flow Monitoring in the Huron River and Downriver watersheds…. Read More »
Andrea Paine 10/13/2023 Monitoring Partnering Across Lake Erie to Strengthen Volunteer Science Since 2020, the Huron River Watershed Council has collaborated with other watershed and river groups across the Michigan, New York,… Read More »
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 »