A K-12 education program that provides watershed education and community science, specifically in water quality monitoring for K-12 students and their teachers. The primary objective of WA is to increase awareness and knowledge of watershed issues in youth across the basin. The program began in 2002 as stream monitoring program and has since expanded to include a floating classroom research vessel program in which students gather limnological data and a fish dissections of bycatch from a lake trout research project to assess the absence/presence of microplastics. In the stream monitoring program, there are three tiers of data collection to engage learners of all ages.
Program name
Lake Champlain Sea Grant
Location
Various sites across the Lake Champlain basin in New York and Vermont
State
Vermont
Purpose
Students take chemical, physical and biological data to engage in stream monitoring (mostly) and conduct lake monitoring.
Project Topics
Naturalist/Stewardship
Species Monitoring/Conservation/Phenology
Microplastics/Debris
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