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The AU Office of Sustainability’s annual Sustainability Picnic celebrates the community’s actions towards sustainable living while calling attention to the work that still needs to be done towards goals for Nature, Economy, Society, and Wellbeing.
Freshwater mussels, also known as bivalves, are a type of mollusk, along with snails. Alabama has the greatest diversity of freshwater mussels in the United States with 181 total species.
Villosa iris. Photo credit: Alan Cressler (Flickr)
Rainbow (Villosa iris) are found in the Tennessee River Basin, and favor shoal habitats. Its periostracum varies from yellow-brown with green rays.
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Thanks to our friends and workshop sponsors at Legacy, Partners in Environmental Education, AWW’s Mona and Sydney along with Dr. Bill Deutsch got to travel down to Prattville in late June for an Alabama Rivers Educator Workshop. Alabama Rivers Educator Workshops focus on curriculum based on the book, Alabama Rivers: A Celebration & Challenge by Dr. Deutsch.
Continue reading “Alabama Rivers Educator Workshop in Prattville”We were excited to host the 2023 AWW Annual Meeting at the beautiful Lake Guntersville State Park! We gathered with Monitors, Trainers, Board Members, program partners and new friends to celebrate the accomplishments of our AWWesome Volunteers throughout the last year.
On Friday, June 23, 2023, AWW Staff trained a new group of water chemistry and bacteriological monitors on the shores of beautiful Lake Guntersville. We also had the pleasure of recertifying several of our long time volunteer monitors.
Continue reading “Training on the Shores of Beautiful Lake Guntersville”Congratulations to our 2022-2023 AWWard Winners! Thank you all for your dedication, enthusiasm, and incredible contributions to the AWW Program. You are an integral part of our team!
Continue reading “2023 VOLUNTEER AWARDS”AWW Staffers Mona and Sydney were up in beautiful Florence, AL in early November to train the AWWesome staff from the Lauderdale County Extension Office and a former 4-H AWW student monitor who is now a teacher using AWW with her own students!
On August 19, AWW Staffers Mona and Sydney headed to Prattville to conduct a Water Chemistry and Bacteriological Monitoring Field Day in partnership with Alabama Watershed Stewards (AWS).
Continue reading “AWW Monitoring Training on Autauga Creek!”July 1 marked the midpoint of the year and, as we enter the second half of the year, just in case your New Year’s Resolution was to be very consistent with your Alabama Water Watch monitoring, this is a good point to check out your data. You can make sure all the data you have collected has been entered and is appearing in AWW Water Data.
This is an excellent time to ask yourself how you have progressed towards reaching your monitoring goals. Have you gone out as frequently as you had planned? If you wanted to add a new sampling site, did you do it? If you have not achieved your mid-year goals, take some time to reflect, and consider why, so you can adjust accordingly.
Congratulations to our 2021-2022 AWWard Winners! Thank you all for your dedication, enthusiasm, and incredible contributions to the AWW Program. You are an integral part of our team!
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