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Fish community assessments (via electrofishing) can be done using a wearable backpack
shocker, a towable platform such as a tote barge, or an electrofishing boat.
Macroinvertebrate community assessments are done by dipping/jabbing around diverse habitats
in streams, or by kicking in riffles with a net (which will look very familiar
to Riverwatch volunteers), and then by sieving and subsampling what was
collected. The sample is then returned to the lab for
sorting and identification.
Download the PDF version of Riffles & Pools for the full article.
It is crucial for your own
safety and well-being to realize that the natural world around us is
ambivalent. This means that as much as we may love and enjoy water and the
natural environment that we work or recreate in, such feelings are not/cannot
be returned. We all need to recognize the raw power that nature contains and
that it is neither benevolent, nor malevolent towards us as humans. Trees,
wind, water, rocks, soils, storms, and the plants and creatures which dwell
therein are lovely in their own way. But they are to be respected, if only
because they just are and they act in their own way regardless of whether or
not we happen to be present (except for that one spider that guards the
bathroom door in the cabin I sometimes stay at; I am pretty sure it has it in
for me).
Download the PDF version of Riffles & Pools for the full article.
A Hoosier Riverwatch Basic Training workshop will
introduce you to hands-on water quality monitoring methods. You will learn
about aquatic habitat and practice chemical and biological assessment techniques.
Each workshop is held both indoors and outdoors unless weather or water
conditions permit otherwise. All interested persons age 18 and over are welcome
to attend. Once trained, certified educators
are qualified to teach these methods and topics to their students.
This autumn, two half-day advanced workshops will focus on E. coli sampling and introduce the Hoosier Riverwatch online database. Participants must have completed
a full-day, basic training workshop prior to signing up for an advanced
workshop.
Download the PDF version of Riffles & Pools for the full article.
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