If you are unable (or can’t wait) to attend an in-person classroom training session we have videos available. Each video is about 15 minutes or less in duration, and designed to be viewed in the order presented here. Please contact Elizabeth if you have any questions about the topics presented or about becoming a volunteer water quality monitor.
Following completion of the online classroom portion of the training, and you think this something you’d like to try, you can review the field training videos to get a better idea. Or if it is springtime (when our field training takes place in April and we’ll have monitoring equipment available), please contact us to make arrangements to come participate in a field session where you will get your supplies or we can put you in contact with a local coordinator in order to determine a good site for you.
For field training sessions, volunteers are provided with written manuals that are theirs to keep. Monitoring techniques are demonstrated, then volunteers practice the procedures until they are comfortable. After learning all of the procedures required for your site, you will be sent home with your monitoring supplies, or the contact information of your monitoring partner with whom you’ll share equipment (sorry – only 1 set per site). We will be setting up field sessions on a series of Saturdays in April – participation in only one is required. Additional sessions may be added if needed.
2024 New Volunteer Classroom Training Online Videos (click on the blue text to launch):
- Introduction
- What is a watershed
- Basic Introduction to Limno-ocean-ology
- Water quality monitoring
Please complete the Volunteer Confirmation form to let us know whether you plan to participate in a field training session or not by clicking here.
We’ll also need a Volunteer Waiver form completed, but we’ll get you a paper copy of that when we do the field training, and get you your monitoring manual and other materials.