It is officially the end of our fall water quality monitoring season! While this year looked a bit different than water testing in the past, we were still able to have an amazing time testing with elementary and middle schools all around the Nisqually Watershed. Our efforts allowed us to […]
Water Quality Monitoring
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Hear all about the 26th Annual Student GREEN Congress from our AmeriCorps volunteer Brandon Bywater. On March 22, 2018, over 500 students from all over the South Puget Sound area descended upon The Evergreen State College for the 26th annual Student GREEN Congress (SGC). The SGC is the culminating experience […]
On October 19th, 47 classes with more than 900 students participated in Water Quality Monitoring Day in the Nisqually Watershed. Each class monitors for 8 basic WQ Parameters: Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature, Fecal Coliform, pH, Turbidity, Nitrates, Total Solids, and Biochemical Oxygen Demand. These test results are shared with local, county, […]
Each school year, thousands of students participate in two water quality monitoring events hosted by the Nisqually River Education Project (NREP). The citizen science effort has been ongoing for over 25 years and helps to identify areas of the watershed that have poor water quality. NREP focuses on salmon recovery, […]