2025 Workshop Recap
By Sydney Zinner
2025 was another busy year for AWW Staff, Volunteer Trainers, and Monitors! We appreciate the time and effort our Volunteer Trainers, Monitors, workshop participants, and program partners dedicated to making this another successful year of monitoring trainings and professional development opportunities.
Take a look at the brief recap below, and be on the lookout for more details in our 2025 AWW Annual Reporting coming in February 2026!
Nature Journaling with BraveHeart Center for Place and Purpose
By: Amy Zvonar
BraveHeart Center for Place and Purpose (BCPP) and Alabama Water Watch (AWW) journeyed to nearby Kreher Preserve and Nature Center (KPNC) on a warm, fall day in November to practice the art of nature journaling. Read on to discover how we used the journaling prompts “I notice”, “I wonder”, “It reminds me of”, to engage with the natural world!
Recap: 4-H AWW Professional Development Workshop
By: Amy Zvonar
Alabama Cooperative Extension Agents make a splash with 4-H AWW training!
Making a Splash: Water Education Made Easy with 4-H Alabama Water Watch is an initiative to engage extension agents across the state in teaching AWW’s water resources programming. 14 extension agents (and a classroom teacher!) took advantage of this new workshop and discovered how easy and valuable it is to incorporate water lessons into their outreach efforts.
RECAP: Understanding & Advancing Your Monitoring Data Webinar Series
In 2025, Alabama Water Watch Staff continued the webinar series, Understanding and Advancing Your Monitoring Data for Bacteriological and Water Chemistry Monitoring.
Protected: 2026 Volunteer Awards: Call for Nominations
Celebrating Cedar Creek
Watershed stewardship is not all in the “big” wins and success stories. Stewardship can be practiced daily through appreciation and the simple act of noticing and sharing what is around you.
Celebrating Water is an effort to encourage us to share the wonders that water brings to us through photos, poems, art, writing, or however you like to share the waters you cherish. If you have a Celebrating Water moment to share, email us at awwprog@auburn.edu!
Enjoy this story about Cedar Creek in Butler County, Alabama!
Continue reading “Celebrating Cedar Creek”Recap: AWW @ Destination STEM Event on Auburn’s Campus
By: Sydney Zinner
AWW was invited to participate amongst 60+ other exhibitors from around Alabama in the Auburn University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics’ 2025 Destination STEM Expo!
“Destination STEM Expo is an interactive experience where sixth through ninth grade students explore Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Students enjoy the freedom to see, touch, hear, and smell the many wonders of science!”
AWW Recipient of Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation Award
Alabama Water Watch was the recipient of the 2025 Gulf Coast Marine Environmental Leadership Award
Celebrating Clean Water with the Girl Scouts
Watershed stewardship is not all in the “big” wins and success stories. Stewardship can be practiced daily through appreciation and the simple act of noticing and sharing what is around you.
Celebrating Water is an effort to encourage us to share the wonders that water brings to us through photos, poems, art, writing, or however you like to share the waters you cherish. If you have a Celebrating Water moment to share, email us at awwprog@auburn.edu!
Enjoy this story about a Girl Scout troop practicing watershed stewardship!
Continue reading “Celebrating Clean Water with the Girl Scouts”