by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 23, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science
The Missouri Stream Team program is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Through this program, an estimated 80,000 volunteer citizens have helped monitor the quality of Missouri’s water streams. And with recent reports showing (often high) levels of mercury in...
by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 8, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, Interviews
Meet Chris Riggert, a Stream Team Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program Coordinator. He has the longest job title at the Missouri Department of Conservation…and boy does he LOVE his job. He works closely with volunteers (citizen scientists) to monitor and...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jan 21, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science
In an effort to learn more about the fascinating and growing demography of folks known as Citizen Scientists, Michael and I created an online Citizen Science Survey. Consider participating in the brief, online survey. The results will be shared with participating...
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 21, 2008 | Blog, Citizen Science, Ocean & Water Projects, Projects & Activities, Shad
Karen Laverty of PBS affiliate WGBH dropped me a line about a brand new NOVA show premiering on Tuesday 11/25 on PBS. “Ocean Animal Emergency” shows ocean mammals being rescued from the wild, tagged (see left; photo credit: Doug Hamilton) and released or...
