BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures and Seminars,SMAST,SMAST Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Seminar Announcement Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences "Engaging Volunteers in Monitoring Water Quality and Cyanobacterial Bloom s" Elizabeth Herron Program Director, Watershed Watch at University of Rho de Island Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:30 - 1:30 pm SMAST E 101-103 and vi a ZoomAbstract: For nearly forty years volunteers in the URI Watershed Wat ch (WW) program have been monitoring lakes and ponds (as well as rivers, s treams, estuaries and salt ponds) throughout the state and adjacent areas, including southeastern Massachusetts. Scientist-led, state-certified and using established methods, the volunteer generated data have produced sign ificant and robust long-term data sets that encourage local actions and co mmunity stewardship. Responding to increasing local concerns, the US Envir onmental Protection Agency’s New England Regional laboratory created the Cyanobacteria Monitoring Collaborative (CMC), a unique collaboration with some NE volunteer monitoring/citizen science programs and other organizat ions to add cyanobacteria-monitoring to their toolboxes. This presentation will provide a brief overview of URIWW and highlight some of the keys to building successful programs. It will discuss the methods and tools from U RIWW and the CMC. Comprehensive resources designed to help other citizen s cience programs to get started, develop and grow will be shared. Join Meet ing https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97440069270 Note: Meeting ID and passcode req uired, email contact to obtain. For additional information, please contact Callie Rumbut at c.rumbut@umassd.edu\nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/ events/cms/engaging-volunteers-in-monitoring-water-quality-and-cyanobacter ial-blooms.php\nEvent link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97440069270 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Seminar Announcement

De partment of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences

"Engaging Volunteers in M onitoring Water Quality and Cyanobacterial Blooms"

Elizabeth Herro n

Program Director\, Watershed Watch at University of Rhode Island

Wednesday\, April 15\, 2026

12:30 - 1:30 pm

SMAST E 101-103 and via ZoomAbstract:

For nearly forty years volunteers in the URI Watershed Watch (WW) program have been monitoring lakes and po nds (as well as rivers\, streams\, estuaries and salt ponds) throughout th e state and adjacent areas\, including southeastern Massachusetts. Scienti st-led\, state-certified and using established methods\, the volunteer gen erated data have produced significant and robust long-term data sets that encourage local actions and community stewardship. Responding to increasin g local concerns\, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s New England Regional laboratory created the Cyanobacteria Monitoring Collaborative (CM C)\, a unique collaboration with some NE volunteer monitoring/citizen scie nce programs and other organizations to add cyanobacteria-monitoring to th eir toolboxes.

This presentation will provide a brief overview of URIWW and highlight some of the keys to building successful programs. It w ill discuss the methods and tools from URIWW and the CMC. Comprehensive re sources designed to help other citizen science programs to get started\, d evelop and grow will be shared.

Join Meeting

https://umass d.zoom.us/j/97440069270

Note: Meeting ID and passcode required\, e mail contact to obtain.

For additional information\, please contac t Callie Rumbut at c.rumbut@umassd.edu

Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/engaging- volunteers-in-monitoring-water-quality-and-cyanobacterial-blooms.phpEvent link: https://umass d.zoom.us/j/97440069270

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