<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="font-family:Arial">MIT Sea Grant is seeking participants for a new</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Water Quality and Invasives Monitoring Program for Teachers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><i><span style="font-family:Arial">Open to:</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial"> High School Teachers, Informal Educators</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Arial"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Arial">TO APPLY: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dER0RGwyaWxyb2pobnRoS05paEJBUVE6MQ#gid=0" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Fill out enrollment form here.</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="font-family:Arial">About the Program</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Arial">This new program builds on the framework of the successful Massachusetts Water Resource Authority Water Quality School Program. The program is designed to help teachers gain access to materials and training in water quality concepts, tools, materials and techniques so that they can bring student groups into the field and have classes participate in water quality monitoring. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Arial">Through this program, MIT Sea Grant hopes to support a community of educators who are interested in citizen water quality monitoring. </span><span style="font-family:Arial">Upon enrollment, you become eligible to attend program trainings, and subsequently become eligible to borrow test kits from one of our two lending libraries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="font-family:Arial">About the Trainings</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-image:initial">Each intensive half-day training is designed to train high school teachers to perform basic water quality tests with their students. Participants learn to assess water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, nitrates, salinity, turbidity and total coliform bacteria. Participants will also learn to identify several species of non-native and invasive shore crabs. </span><span style="font-family:Arial">After successfully completing the training, teachers will be eligible to borrow kits from our lending library of water quality testing kits, at the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center site or the Jones River Landing site.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><b style="line-height:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">About the Kit Lending Library Sites</span></b><span style="line-height:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b style="line-height:12pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.gloucestermaritimecenter.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(90,69,196)">Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center</span></a></b><span style="line-height:12pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="line-height:12pt;font-family:Arial">Maritime Gloucester is a grassroots nonprofit organization, located in Gloucester Massachusetts, on the northern coast of the state. The center got its start in 1999 and was initially dedicated to the preservation of Gloucester's maritime industrial history. In more recent years Maritime Gloucester has become the region's leader for hands-on learning about marine science and environmental stewardship.</span></p>
<p style><b><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.jonesriver.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(90,69,196)">Jones River Watershed Authority</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><br>
The Jones River Watershed Association is a non-profit, member-based organization established to protect, enhance, and restore the natural resources of the watershed though advocacy, protection of sensitive riparian lands, habitat restoration, and infrastructure improvements</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br>
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