[SEMCO] Water Quality Teacher Training Program - MIT Sea Grant

[Rachel VanCott]

*MIT Sea Grant is seeking participants for a new*

*Water Quality and Invasives Monitoring Program for Teachers*

*Open to:* High School Teachers, Informal Educators


TO APPLY: Fill out enrollment form
here.<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dER0RGwyaWxyb2pobnRoS05paEJBUVE6MQ#gid=0>

*About the Program*

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.


Through this program, MIT Sea Grant hopes to support a community of
educators who are interested in citizen water quality monitoring. Upon
enrollment, you become eligible to attend program trainings, and
subsequently become eligible to borrow test kits from one of our two
lending libraries.

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*About the Trainings*

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. 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.

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*About the Kit Lending Library Sites*

*Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center<http://www.gloucestermaritimecenter.org/>
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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.

*Jones River Watershed Authority <http://www.jonesriver.org/>*
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

MIT Sea Grant College Program
617-253-5944
vancott at mit.edu
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