Paul Steen 07/18/2022 River Roundup Thirty Years of Bugs and Citizen Science HRWC is celebrating 30 years of River Roundups, our macroinvertebrate monitoring program! In 1992, a group of pioneering staff and volunteers… 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 »
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,… Read More »
Kate Laramie 04/26/2021 Events A Successful River Roundup Eighty volunteers joined HRWC’s Spring River Roundup on Saturday, April 17, sampling macroinvertebrates (small aquatic bugs) at 42 sites along… 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 »
Niklas Krantz 06/13/2018 Lakes Volunteers on the Lookout for Exotic Aquatic Plants Lake monitoring in Oakland County! For 14 years, HRWC has worked with lake residents across Michigan through the Cooperative Lakes… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 02/19/2018 News to Us News to Us This edition of News to Us shares articles on HRWC’s annual Stonefly Search, the recovery of Michigan raptors and a… Read More »
Ric Lawson 02/07/2017 Adopt-A-Stream 2016 Results Are In! (at least some of them) In January, HRWC staff and volunteers got together to celebrate another successful season of data collection. Call it a Water-Nerd-Fest,… Read More »
Paul Steen 12/14/2016 Adopt-A-Stream River Roundup Results Reviewed: October 2016 Aquatic insect sampling on the Huron River and its creeks Thanks to 154 volunteers who contributed approximately 600 volunteer hours, the… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 04/21/2015 News to Us News to Us HRWC’s work has been highlighted in some news recently covering volunteer stream monitoring and the significance of water to Michigan’s… Read More »
Jason Frenzel 07/11/2014 Adopt-A-Stream Measuring a Stream Have you ever found yourself in the shower or washing the dishes thinking to yourself, “Self, I wish I knew… Read More »
Paul Steen 05/10/2010 General HRWC MiCorps volunteers gather water data across Michigan The Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) is a state program that trains and uses volunteers to collect ecological information from streams… Read More »