Stream Assessment Training for Volunteers

The Great Swamp Watershed Association needs your help to protect the water resources we all share!

If you like spending time outside and wonder what it would be like to be a real citizen scientist—like Benjamin Franklin or Henry David Thoreau—then you should volunteer for GSWA’s Stream Team. Begin your journey by attending our Visual Stream Assessment Training.

This workshop will show you how routine visual stream assessment surveys are conducted on our streams and rivers, and how that data can provide critical information about our water resources and the local environment. Then, step by step, you will learn how to conduct an on-the-ground visual stream assessment—one of the most basic water quality assessment tools available to environmental scientists.

By the end of the workshop, your first real-world survey of stream health will be complete, and you will be ready to join the rest of GSWA’s Stream Team for future assessments later this spring.

A continental breakfast will be served. Ideal volunteers will be 15 years old or older. A portion of this event will be held outdoors and slppery conditions will be present..