Streamwatcher Your Water
The StreamWatcher Your water. Your environment. Winter 2013 Your voice. STREAMWATCH MISSION Protecting and enhancing our watershed through chemical, physical, and biological monitoring, restoration, appropriate action, and education. Volunteers are the key! IN THIS ISSUE . SCIENCE DEPARTMENT STAFF PAGE 1 Nationwide Water Quality Portal Now Online Jim Waltman SBMWA Executive Director PAGE 2 Announcements What’s Bugging You - How does road salting affect waterways? Amy M. Soli, Ph.D PAGE 3 What’s Bugging You, continued Science Director August and November Bacteria Monitoring Results Erin McCollum Stretz PAGE 4 Summer and Fall 2013 Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Results StreamWatch Program Coordinator PAGE 5 View Our Data Nicholas Ho Resources for StreamWatchers GIS Specialist Upcoming Dates to Remember ———————————————— NATIONWIDE WATER QUALITY PORTAL NOW ONLINE STONY BROOK-MILLSTONE SEE YOUR DATA ON A NATIONAL SCALE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION You have worked long and hard to collect your StreamWatch data—now what? J. Seward Johnson, Sr. There is a new website available to the public to see your data put on display. A Environmental Center project that has been in development for years by the National Water Quality 31 Titus Mill Road Council, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the US Geological Survey, the Pennington, NJ 08534 Water Quality Portal is now available online. Released last year, it provides “one- stop shopping” for access to water quality data collected across the country by Phone: (609) 737-3735 Fax: (609) 737-3075 national, state, and local government agencies, utilities, academia, and nonprofit www.thewatershed.org organizations—including the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association! Rather than visiting multiple websites, you can find physical, chemical, and bio- For questions about how to get logical data all in one place.
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