{"id":29993,"date":"2018-08-14T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T17:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=29993"},"modified":"2025-01-13T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:04:46","slug":"meet-the-stream-team-mvuuf-citizen-scientists-keep-a-watchful-eye-on-daytons-wolf-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/meet-the-stream-team-mvuuf-citizen-scientists-keep-a-watchful-eye-on-daytons-wolf-creek.htm","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Stream Team: MVUUF Citizen Scientists Keep A Watchful Eye on Dayton\u2019s Wolf Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Named for wolves that were once spotted in the area during the pioneer era, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wildlife.ohiodnr.gov\/wolfcreek\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wolf Creek<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Dayton, Ohio is a waterway nearly 20 miles long, a southeast flowing tributary of the Great Miami River. Wolf Creek is one of the \u201cfive rivers\u201d referred to in the name of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metroparks.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five Rivers MetroParks-<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Dayton, Ohio\u2019s premier park system. Five Rivers MetroParks was founded in 1963 with the goal of preserving green space for future generations. The \u201cfive rivers\u201d in its name refer to the Miami River, Stillwater River, Mad River, Twin Creek and Wolf Creek which run through the region. The area has many citizen scientist volunteers that help assess water quality in selected areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One such citizen scientist group is the Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (MVUUF) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montgomerycountymd.gov\/DEP\/water\/clean-water-montgomery\/stream-health\/stream-wildlife-SH.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stream Team<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which has been evaluating stream habitat quality at Wolf Creek since 2012. The MVUUF group views environmental sustainability as one of its key service commitments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gary Courts, Past MVUUF Environmental Action Group Chairman, tells the story of the creation of the Stream Team. \u201cAbout six years ago an Environmental Action Group was formed as a subgroup of our Social Action Group at Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship,\u201d he recalls. \u201cAmong the projects that we took on was to organize a \u2018Stream Team.\u2019 Two of us, Alice Diebel and I, attended a training workshop sponsored by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcdwater.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miami Conservancy District<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and were certified as Miami Valley Stream Team Volunteers. A MVUUF member who is a retired MetroParks administrator suggested that we undertake ongoing monitoring of Wolf Creek at a site in Wesleyan MetroPark, one of the Five Rivers MetroParks, and we have been certified to monitor at that site for the past six years. After our training, we are certified as Ohio Level 1 Qualified Data Collectors. The data that we collect and process is then submitted to the Miami Conservancy and Five Rivers MetroParks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29991\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29991\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_sample-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"stream team\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_sample-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_sample-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_sample-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_sample-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_sample-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_sample-940x529.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Gary Courts (blue cap), Jerry Jenkins (behind Gary) and Shelia Adams, long time members of the MVUUF Stream Team. (Photo credit: Alice Diebel)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The protocol used by the Stream Team comes from the Conservancy&#8217;s Volunteer Stream Monitoring Training Manual. Each monitoring session consists of a habitat assessment, a chemical assessment and a biological assessment. \u00a0\u201cThe habitat assessment involves completing the Citizens Qualitative Habitat Evaluation Index that was developed by the Ohio EPA. For the chemical assessment, we do these tests: dissolved oxygen, E. coli, pH, 5-day biological oxygen demand, upstream-downstream temperature change, nitrates and turbidity. \u00a0For the biological assessment, we use the kick-seine method to sample macroinvertebrates in the stream,\u201d says Courts. \u201cAfter Alice and I were certified as official volunteer stream monitors, Miami Conservancy gave us a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/hach-stream-survey-test-kit.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hach Stream Survey Kit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This kit has served us well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reports generated by the Stream Team also include waterway qualities such as substrates, flow depth, riparian vegetation and stream shape. \u00a0The biological monitoring component also consists of sampling for the presence and abundance of benthic macroinvertebrates as an indicator of the presence or absence of pollutants.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29990\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29990\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"stream team\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/stream_team_1-940x705.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">(Wolf Creek in summer. Credit: Lori Balster)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the MVUUF Stream Team did a study at their designated site at Wolf Creek in Wesleyan Metropark on Saturday, July 7, 2018. \u00a0The chemical tests indicated good water quality, though the habitat assessment and biological values were only fair. Only a few macroinvertebrates were netted which might indicate an insignificant sample size. Some of the stream species found included: caddisfly larvae and water penny, which are intolerant of pollution, along with damselfly nymphs and some clams or mussels, which are moderately intolerant of pollution. In a previous report, riffle beetles were found, which are pollution intolerant, and also blood midges, which are very tolerant of pollution. The biological assessment for that report was also fair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MVUUF Stream Team will continue to monitor Wolf Creek in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Top image: Wolf Creek, bridge view at Wesleyan Metropark. (Credit: Lori Balster)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers of the MVUUF Stream Team have been monitoring Wolf Creek water quality, habitat and biological characteristics for several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,49,510],"tags":[574,930,929,928,103,109,742,927,503,926],"class_list":["post-29993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-newsfeed","category-rivers-streams","category-water-quality","tag-citizen-scientists","tag-five-rivers-metroparks","tag-miami-valley-conservancy","tag-mvuuf","tag-news-2","tag-news-ticker","tag-ohio-epa","tag-stream-team","tag-water-quality","tag-wolf-creek"],"remote_post_permalink":false,"remote_post_featured_image":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meet The Stream Team: MVUUF Citizen Scientists Keep A Watchful Eye on Dayton\u2019s Wolf Creek<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Volunteers of the MVUUF Stream Team have been monitoring Wolf Creek water quality, habitat and biological characteristics for several years.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/meet-the-stream-team-mvuuf-citizen-scientists-keep-a-watchful-eye-on-daytons-wolf-creek.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet The Stream Team: MVUUF Citizen Scientists Keep A Watchful Eye on Dayton\u2019s Wolf Creek\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Volunteers of the MVUUF Stream Team have been monitoring Wolf Creek water quality, habitat and biological characteristics for several years.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/meet-the-stream-team-mvuuf-citizen-scientists-keep-a-watchful-eye-on-daytons-wolf-creek.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Environmental Monitor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-08-14T17:36:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-13T17:04:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ridgeway_wildllife.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"3264\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2448\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lori Balster\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lori Balster\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/meet-the-stream-team-mvuuf-citizen-scientists-keep-a-watchful-eye-on-daytons-wolf-creek.htm#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/meet-the-stream-team-mvuuf-citizen-scientists-keep-a-watchful-eye-on-daytons-wolf-creek.htm\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lori Balster\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc098253ffd6cd9f653771a15dbd57df\"},\"headline\":\"Meet The Stream Team: MVUUF Citizen Scientists Keep A Watchful Eye on Dayton\u2019s Wolf Creek\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-08-14T17:36:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-13T17:04:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/meet-the-stream-team-mvuuf-citizen-scientists-keep-a-watchful-eye-on-daytons-wolf-creek.htm\"},\"wordCount\":673,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/meet-the-stream-team-mvuuf-citizen-scientists-keep-a-watchful-eye-on-daytons-wolf-creek.htm#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.fondriest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/ridgeway_wildllife-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"citizen scientists\",\"Five Rivers Metroparks\",\"Miami Valley Conservancy\",\"MVUUF\",\"news\",\"news ticker\",\"Ohio EPA\",\"Stream Team\",\"water quality\",\"Wolf Creek\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Newsfeed\",\"Rivers &amp; 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