Get Your Students Testing Water Quality

The time has come for the Bronx River Alliance / GLOBE NY Metro's fall water quality monitoring training with Peter Schmidt. If you are interested in becoming an environmental steward, or if you have an interest in the Bronx River's water quality, spend a day learning the basics of becoming a citizen scientist. Students, teachers, community residents, and any other interested parties, are invited to participate. The agenda is full of hands-on learning:

• 8:00: Show up and enjoy coffee and bagels.
• 8:15-9:00: Introductions, overview of GLOBE, and answer the question; “Why GLOBE and the Bronx River Alliance?”
• 9:00-9:30: Look at the river (on map); discuss watershed, concept of “moving target”, triangulation.
• 9:30-10:00: “Which thermometer”, importance of protocols and calibration, calibrate thermometers.
• 10:00-10:10: Take a break.
• 10:15-12:00: Introduce and perform two protocols: dissolved oxygen and salinity. Learn protocol, review what we are testing for and its significance, talk about reasonable values and ranges, and run through calibration and review quality control.
• 12:00-1:00: Make your own sandwiches for lunch.
• 1:00-2:00: Introduce and perform two protocols; pH and nitrates.
• 2:00-3:00: Go to the river and run through the full series of tests.
• 3:00-4:00: Enter data into the GLOBE data base.

Space is very limited. Contact Peter Schmidt, Associate Director of GLOBE NY Metro at (718) 997-4268 or peter.schmidt@qc.cny.edu to sign up.