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Upcoming Event:
Yellowstone River Basic Training
September
23-24, 2005 - Billings
Are you a teacher in the Yellowstone River Watershed who wants to get
your students out into the field?
Join Yellowstone River Watchers and share monitoring ideas, review testing
procedures, learn how to incorporate YRW into the classroom, practice
using the database, and more!
Friday, September 23: 1pm – 5pm @ ZOO Montana
We’ll start with introductions, then find out why in the world
you would want to monitor water, what your monitoring goals are, methods
and protocols for water quality monitoring, and review testing procedures.
A representative from HACH will come to help with challenges, questions,
and how to’s for testing procedures.
Saturday, September 24: 9am – 2pm @ Billings West High
School
What’s the connection to your classroom? And how do you use the
new database? The database allows you to upload your findings, compare
results, and connect to the EPA’s STORET data. How can I start
using it and incorporating YRW with my students? These answers and more.
YRW Training
Registration Form.doc
The
main goal of Yellowstone River Watch is to increase students’ awareness, knowledge
and appreciation of Montana’s river systems through field study,
data collection and data analysis.
 History
of YRW: Billings science teacher John Miller founded the Yellowstone
River Watch in 1993. John’s dedication to watershed education,
coupled with financial and coordinating assistance from Montana Fish,
Wildlife
and Parks, the Montana Watercourse and Project WET Montana, has led Yellowstone
River Watch from humble beginnings to a watershed-wide water quality
education
initiative. Yellowstone River Watch has been responsible for introducing
hundreds of students to river systems and ecological concepts in real-world
scenarios. Dean Smith, a recently retired science teacher and long-time
YRW member, took over in 2001 as the main contact and coordinating agent
for Yellowstone River Watch.
Handbook: A resource
for teachers in the Yellowstone basin who are interested in sharing lesson
plans, data, information and resources with other teachers. View
the September 2004 (latest) version..
| Current Participating
Teachers: |
Town |
School |
Details |
| Lewis Gunn |
Emigrant |
Arrowhead School |
monitors 4x per year; 2x Yell. Nat’l Park |
| Kristin Long |
Livingston |
St. Mary's School |
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| David Pettit |
Livingston |
Sleeping Giant Middle School (7th grade) |
DO, pH, temp, conductivity, turbidity, substrate, riparian survey,
fecal coliforms, phosphate, nitrate, solids, macroinvertebrates |
| Robin Hehn |
Columbus |
Columbus High School |
Uses Vernier probes to measure DO, pH, temp, turbudity, nitrate;
will soon monitor macroinvertebrates |
| Norma Glock |
Columbus |
Columbus Middle School |
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| Cathy McGregor |
Belfry (Clark's Fork-tributary) |
Belfry School |
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| Joe LeFebvre |
Red Lodge (Rock Creek - Clark's Fork) |
Red Lodge High School |
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| Catherine Lynch |
Billings |
ZOOMontana |
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| John Miller |
Billings |
Billings West |
DO, pH, temp, conductivity, turbidity, substrate, riparian survey,
fecal coliforms, phosphate, nitrate, solids, BOD, macroinvertebrates |
| Marv Forquer |
Billings |
Billings Career Center |
DO, pH, temp, conductivity, turbidity, substrate, riparian survey,
fecal coliforms, phosphate, nitrate, solids, algae, macroinvertebrates,
salinity, chlorine, harness, iron |
| Murter family |
Hardin (Big Horn -tributary) |
homeschool |
DO, pH, temp, conductivity, turbidity, fecal coliforms, phosphate,
nitrate, macroinvertebrates |
| Bernie and Dorothy Smith |
Colstrip |
Colstrip High School |
long term project for monitoring coal-bed methane effects |
| Craig Knoche |
Forsyth |
Forsyth 7-12 |
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| Bill Tramp |
Miles City |
Washington Middle School |
DO, pH, temp, conductivity, turbidity, fecal coliforms, phosphate,
nitrate, solids, BOD, macroinvertebrates |
| Jean Hagler |
Savage |
Savage High School |
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Listserve: Yellowstone
River Watch members can choose to be a part of our email listserve.
Share
ideas, curricula, ask questions on using equipment and receive timely
news article links to events happening or affecting the Yellowstone
drainage.
Instructions for joining
the listserv
are on the Montana Watercourse About
Us page.
Instructions for removing your name are also on the same website.
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