This 4 day workshop is designed to provide participants the programmatic and technical methodologies to teach and conduct stream and watershed monitoring. It is designed for anyone with a reasonable science background interested in technical, aquatic, and riparian ecosystem monitoring programs.
Ecosystem Monitoring Methods
Physical Chemistry
The water quality basics; pH, temperature, alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, turbidity.
Nutrient Chemistry
Colorimetric and advanced lab techniques for phosphorus, chlorine, and nitrogen; making and using standard solutions and waste disposal.
Macroinvertebrate Inventory
Identify benthic macroinvertebrates; field collection, sorting techniques, basic identification and key use; calculate indices to interpret stream health.
Stream Flow
Learn an easy and accurate method to calculate in-stream flow rates.
Hydrology
An introduction to channel forming processes – sinuosity, gradient, and entrenchment
Riparian Vegetation Assessment
Identify and analyze riparian vegetation communities; biodiversity, cover, stability, and function; plant ID, native and invasive plants, woody debris recruitment for streams.
Habitat Assessment
Quantitative in stream habitat assessment; gather streambed, large wood, bank stability data from which a qualitative evaluation can be made.
Watershed Connections
Curriculum Integration
Scheduling interdisciplinary projects, and watershed education in a school setting. Choosing the monitoring parameters and project goals that fit your existing curriculum.
Community Resources
Identify and make use of community resources. Involve students and volunteers in meaningful stewardship, political action, citizenship and careers.
Student Watershed Research Project (SWRP)
With eighteen years of development, refinement and practice, the SWRP program offers and excellent model for providing quality assurance to citizen data collection and watershed analysis activities.
The SWRP program is long term riparian and aquatic monitoring program that couples watershed education with the collection of high quality data. SWRP coordinates long term stream monitoring in the Portland/Vancouver Metropolitan area while offering training and technical assistance to teachers and citizen monitoring projects in other areas.
Over the past eighteen years, SWRP has involved more that 18,000 students in long-term monitoring of local watersheds. We have trained over 250 classroom teachers and 80 agency, nonprofit, and community representatives. The 4th edition of our manual published in 2003 is available for purchase.
The Student Watershed Research Project is a self funded program of Portland State University’ Environmental Sciences & Management Programs.
Instructors
The pool of instructors for the workshop come from a wide array of professional backgrounds and interests, providing a well balanced educational opportunity
Instructors include SWRP staff, classroom teachers, research scientists and agency personnel representing institutions including:
• Portland State University • U.S. Geological Survey • Macroinvertebrate Researcher and Environmental Consultants
Registration fee includes
• /Riparian and Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring: A Manual of Field and Lab Procedures, 4th Edition (2003)
Stream Insects of the Pacific Northwest by Patrick Edwards/
• Handouts and Methodology Updates
• Use of equipment, supplies, lab areas for the workshop
• Morning snacks, lunches daily
• Carpooling to field sites
Lodging not included
Also available:
Graduate credit ESR 510 ? 28 Professional Development Hours
Workshop Registration Fee
$500 by July 26th 2010
$525 after July 26th, 2010
$575 with graduate credit
Contact SWRP for Information
www.swrp.esr.pdx.eduPhone: 503-725-2343
Fax: 503-725-9040
maryanns@pdx.edu
