Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Acid rain monitoring volunteers -- April 11


Dr. Clark recently received this message from Water Resources Research

Center, University of Massachusetts, requesting help in an environmental monitoring project.. Please see the contact information below if you are able to participate.
We need your help. There are several sites that still need volunteers for ARM Sunday, April 11th, 2010 throughout Massachusetts. It's a great way to explore Massachusetts water bodies and help with valuable research at the same time.

What does sampling entail? We will send you a sampling bottle with instructions on how to get to your site and how to collect the sample, and then you will deliver the sample to the nearest volunteer sampling lab. That's
it! Please contact Beckie Finn, esfinn AT tei.umass.edu, 413.545.5979, for a list of sites that need coverage.

What does sampling entail? We will send you a sampling bottle with instructions on how to get to your site and how to collect the sample, and then you will deliver the sample to the nearest volunteer sampling lab. That's
it!

The Acid Rain Monitoring Project (ARM) began at the Water Resources Research Center, University of Massachusetts, in 1983. The project's mission was initially to develop a comprehensive picture of the sensitivity of Massachusetts surface waters to acid deposition, and later evolved to determine long-term trends in this sensitivity.

Our database represents the full water chemistry record beginning with the start of the project in March 1983. Samples were collected monthly in 1983 and 1984, semiannually in 1985 and 1986, and quarterly from 1986 to 1993.  Current samples are collected semiannually. More than 40,000 records from nearly 5,600 lakes and streams are contained in the database. For more information, visit our website: http://www.umass.edu/tei/wrrc/arm/index.html

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