Rain Barrel Workshop
August 14th 9am-12pm Betterton Beach, MD
Here are our current volunteer opportunities:
Sassafras Samplers Water Quality Testing. We have tidal testing, which involves spending a few hours monthly on a boat on the River from spring through fall and non-tidal testing, which involves visiting two sites once each month. The RIVERKEEPER will provide all the training and equipment you'll need to be an active tester.
Advocacy. We need volunteers to read the local papers and notify us of regular and special meetings of the Kent and Cecil County Commissioners, Planning Commissions, and other agencies, where issues that may affect the Sassafras River watershed are to be discussed. We also need volunteers to attend those meetings.
Outreach. We have an educational information booth that we take to public events in Cecil and Kent Counties.
Publicity. We always need help with event planning and publicity.
If you are interested in water quality monitoring and testing, you will need to attend our three hour equipment training on Saturday February 28th, 2009 from 9 AM to 12 Noon at Washington College. The training will introduce the new equipment that our Sassafras Samplers will be using to sample the non-tidal streams of the watershed, as well as the main stem tidal portions of the river. You will also get a chance to pick the streams you would like to sample over the next several months. Please join us at the Room S110 in the Toll Science Building on Campus Avenue for a few hours to go over the new procedures. Call 410-708-3303 to signup or if you have any questions.
Another form of water quality monitoring is collecting the bugs that live in the bottom or benthic habitat of the stream. By counting the amount of bugs as well as the different kinds, we can figure out the health of the stream. In order to do this kind of monitoring you must attend a one day training given by Maryland's Department of Natural Resources. The Sassafras RIVERKEEPER plans on attending and forming a team of volunteers to test the bug populations in the Sassafras, so if you are interested in joining her please sign up! The training will be held on Saturday, March 7th from 8:30-3:30 in Colora, MD. Click Here for more information and directions to the training.
Due to popular demand, there is going to be an additional equipment training being held on Saturday March 21st from 9 AM to 12 Noon at Washington College. This training will be the same format as the one on February 28 in which we will learn how to use the new water testing equipment that the Sassafras Samplers will take out into the field this upcoming sampling season. The training will be conducted in Room S110 in the Toll Science Building on Campus Avenue in Chestertown. Please Call 410-708-3303 to sign up or if you have any questions.
Sign up online or call 410-708-3303 today!