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Unseen Intruders: Microplastics in Our Rivers

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If you are curious about plastics pollution, especially microplastics, this webinar provides a helpful overview.

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Empowering People: Trash Monitoring Along the Schuylkill River

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Did you hear about how the community along the Schuylkill River helped identify hotspots for trash in the river and along the banks?

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Advancing freshwater science with sensor data collected by community scientists

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Oviedo-Vargas, D., M. Peipoch, S.H. Ensign, D. Bressler, D.B. Arscott, and J.K. Jackson. 2024. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, early online access.

A group of students installs a tree shelter in the streamside buffer at their school.

Volunteer-Led Tree Planting Engages Students in Stewardship

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How one community’s action project is teaching students about water, trees, and wildlife and how to care for them.

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Starting a Watershed Organization

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Learn how the Little Lehigh Watershed Stewards started a watershed organization in their rapidly developing community and you can too.

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Volunteering With Scientists Changed How I Advocate for Clean Streams

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Carol Armstrong shares how knowledge she gained from collecting high-quality data in streams empowered her as a clean-water advocate in her community.

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To Reduce Flooding and Water Pollution, Add Green Space

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Every park, every garden, every green space, no matter how small, gives rainwater the time and space to slow down and spread out.

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Earning a “Master’s” in Watershed Stewardship

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How Penn State Extension launched one of the most successful volunteer training programs in the U.S. and revived struggling local watershed groups.

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Looking Back at Earth and Its Fresh Water From Space

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All-star community science volunteers visit Goddard Space Flight Center and learn what NASA satellite data reveals about threats to streams.

Lawrenceville School Partnership for Student Water Quality Monitoring of Shipetaukin Creek

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Educators are partnering with The Lawrenceville School to create and implement opportunities for students to study water quality impacts on the school campus using EnviroDIY™ Monitoring Stations. Funded by: Fair…