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Greetings, fellow water monitors!
The 2024 Maryland Streams Roundtable will be held both virtually and in-person from 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. on February 26. RSVP now to reserve your spot! Space at the USGS Water Science Center is limited to the first 50 responses, so let us know and we’ll save your seat!
The deadline to register and to send your mappable site data has been extended until Wednesday, February 21. Registration for the Roundtable is free, but please RSVP to Andy Becker at andy.becker@kci.com or 410-891-1767 with your choice of either virtual or in-person attendance and indicate whom from your organization will give a presentation. Active participation from all groups in attendance is vital to the success of the Roundtable.
About the Roundtable
The Maryland Water Monitoring Council’s Maryland Streams Roundtable fosters collaboration and cooperation among Maryland’s varied stream monitoring efforts. This gathering will provide an excellent opportunity to learn where monitoring is being done and what's being sampled. The Roundtable is intended for professionals, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions monitoring streams throughout the state. This is an opportunity for you and your group to tell your colleagues what and where you will be monitoring in Maryland’s streams in 2024.
For those choosing the virtual option a link will be sent to attendees a few days prior to the Roundtable. If capacity is reached, preference will be given to those people giving presentations on their monitoring locations.
Each presenter will give a short 5 to 10-minute PowerPoint presentation that includes an overview of study design, parameters sampled, and the types and locations of stream monitoring activities planned for 2024. There will also be plenty of time for discussion and questions. If you would like your sites added to a map (public and internet accessible) of all 2024 sampling locations across the state, fill out the data template (Excel) available for download with the required information (e.g. site ID, coordinates, monitoring type, and contact information) for each site and email the completed spreadsheet to Andy Becker at KCI Technologies (see above). Please send Andy your mappable data no later than close of business on Wednesday, February 21. Click here to view last year's Roundtable Map.
We will collect all this information and display these data on one large map so that attendees can locate areas of overlap and identify potential opportunities for collaboration.
A detailed agenda for the entire day will be sent to all registrants prior to the Roundtable.
Feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues whom we may have missed.
If you have any questions, please contact the MWMC at mwmcsecretary.dnr@maryland.gov.
Thanks and we look forward to seeing you on February 26!
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