{"id":30082,"date":"2018-08-22T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=30082"},"modified":"2022-08-04T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:07:10","slug":"hoosier-riverwatch-recruiting-more-citizen-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/hoosier-riverwatch-recruiting-more-citizen-scientists.htm","title":{"rendered":"Hoosier Riverwatch Recruiting More Citizen Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoosierriverwatch.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hoosier Riverwatch (HRW)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a citizen science water quality monitoring program, runs mostly on volunteer power. Overseen by the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/idem\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the program is expanding and training new citizen scientists who share the desire to pass on cleaner water and more outdoor opportunities for future generations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom the beginning, the inspiration was the promotion of citizen stewardship for our shared water resources,\u201d explains<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brady Hagerty<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, IDEM&#8217;s digital media manager, on behalf of the Hoosier Riverwatch team. \u201cThis continues to be accomplished through educational workshops, websites and a newsletter; providing monitoring equipment and supplies; maintaining an online database; and so forth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Hagerty, the vision for Hoosier Riverwatch began in 1991 with the conversations and shared interests of two state agencies\u2014IDEM and the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/dnr\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014and various grassroots citizen groups. For the first two or three years, efforts to secure funding for the project failed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eventually, in 1995 the project finally took off when the team had enough funds from CINergy and the Indiana General Assembly to purchase a van and supplies. In 1996, federal grant funds from IDEM were sufficient to pay a single staff member. Today, HRW is part of the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/idem\/cleanwater\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IDEM Office of Water Quality\u2019s<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/idem\/cleanwater\/2338.htm\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watershed Assessment and Planning Branch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Smarter outreach, better results<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The HRW mission is to increase public awareness of water quality and related issues, and outreach via citizen science is one of its best tools. Program volunteers train to monitor water quality in the more than 100,000 miles of ditches, drainage ways, streams, and rivers that criss-cross the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30078\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30078\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_learning-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"riverwatch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_learning-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_learning-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_learning-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_learning-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_learning-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_learning-940x627.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Instructor Mary Cutler speaks with her students during a Hoosier Riverwatch workshop in Battleground, Indiana. (Credit: IDEM\/HRW via communication with source)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhile the dynamics of Riverwatch fluctuates somewhat with economic and educational pressures, it continues to maintain its popularity in the state,\u201d remarks Hagerty. \u201cIt enjoys recognition outside of the state, for a variety of reasons. It continues to hold its own with the help of tech-savvy, social media staff at IDEM.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In many parts of the country, programs like HRW provide invaluable assistance to government agencies tasked with scientific monitoring of water, since there&#8217;s far more monitoring than staff can handle alone. HRW plays a similarly important role in Indiana, so the program works to get its citizen scientists ready for the work in the hope that the team will love getting involved and help share HRW&#8217;s messaging for years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cScarcity of monitoring resources is an issue everywhere, so citizens are a great asset,\u201d adds Hagerty. \u201cInitial training is a seven to eight-hour training workshop. There are also training sessions on advanced topics, refresher training and more in-depth training for volunteer instructors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Training citizen scientists<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HRW training for volunteers generally lasts for a whole day. During that time, participants learn how to measure dissolved oxygen, nutrients, pH, temperature and turbidity in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30079\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30079\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_pH-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Riverwatch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_pH-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_pH-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_pH-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_pH-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_pH-940x627.jpg 940w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_pH.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">A Hoosier Riverwatch volunteer studying a stream\u2019s pH level. (Credit: IDEM\/HRW via communication with source)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt works well; concepts are not difficult to grasp,\u201d details Hagerty. \u201cThey care about the environment, so they enjoy the work immensely, and are a great multiplier for paid staff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants also cover chemical monitoring, data analysis and reporting, habitat assessment, macroinvertebrate identification and watershed and pollution sources. By monitoring three major parameters of waterways, their biology, chemistry, and habitat, citizen scientists are better equipped to help determine water quality and get \u201cthe big picture\u201d of stream health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll monitoring efforts are done by the volunteers,\u201d Hagerty states. \u201cThe sampling portion of HRW follows the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GREEN (Global Rivers Environmental Education Network) program<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> initiated at Michigan State University in the late 1960s to early 1970s by Dr. William Stapp. The GREEN program and HRW utilize low\/appropriate technology; thereby forgoing the expenses associated with laboratories or paid labor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trainees also learn about the connections between the benthic community and water quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVolunteers identify aquatic macroinvertebrates they have collected from the streams,\u201d remarks Hagerty. \u201cThese are identified rather broadly into taxonomic orders or families and then released again back to the stream. Professionals, on the other hand, preserve a sample and later identify and count them down to genus, species, and the other five classifications (taxonomy). Volunteers may count them if they wish, but the database only records and calculates them as being present or absent. Locations of macroinvertebrates found is a function of the sampling site being studied.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30080\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30080\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_macroinvertebrates-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"riverwatch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_macroinvertebrates-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_macroinvertebrates-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_macroinvertebrates-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_macroinvertebrates-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_macroinvertebrates-940x627.jpg 940w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Hoosier_Riverwatch_macroinvertebrates.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Hoosier Riverwatch volunteers collect macroinvertebrates from Burnett\u2019s Creek in West Lafayette, Indiana. (Credit: IDEM\/HRW via communication with source)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants also learn how to identify invasive species, both plant and animal, such as Asian carp and zebra mussels and invasive aquatic plants elodea and hydrilla.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cInvasive species can be noted during field sampling events, but volunteers are not expected to respond further to the invasive species as part of the HRW program,\u201d clarifies Hagerty. \u201cInvasive plants, algae, animals, insects and even diseases are not uncommon in Indiana. There are other initiatives in the state that spearhead such issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HRW participants<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoosierriverwatch.com\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enter their data online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so they can share their information with IDEM and each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVolunteers are trained and can conduct calculations of the data using training manuals and datasheets,\u201d comments Hagerty. \u201cHowever, the online database will do the calculations for them once they have properly entered the data (which is their reporting component). Participants are also encouraged to further analyze and share their findings locally, to track trends or show comparisons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once training is over, participants are certified to borrow testing kits from HRW sites, and can monitor the rivers and streams they choose. Ideally, by selecting sites that matter to them, volunteers are more engaged, producing better results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are many beautiful, breathtaking and refreshing places to see in Indiana,\u201d remarks Hagerty. \u201cGetting out to a small stream may help you find your little corner of paradise. Such contact usually leads to better stewardship and even the youngest among us can learn to care for the things we come to value.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information about Hoosier Riverwatch, including how to get involved, visit their website: https:\/\/www.in.gov\/idem\/riverwatch\/.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Top image: Riverwatch instructors and volunteers celebrate after their training workshop. 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