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2022 Workshop Highlights and Looking Forward To 2023

290 monitors were certified or recertified in 2022 by Volunteer Trainers and AWW Staff around Alabama. It’s been a wonderful and busy year!

Over 700 folks completed* our online courses, marking a great first full year of using them for our Monitoring Trainings! *Completion is defined as individuals who completed the entire course with 80% accuracy or above.

Here are some of the highlights from AWW Staff Trainings. 2023 dates are listed at the end of this post and can be found on the AWW Events Calendar.

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America’s Amazon Reading List

The America’s Amazon Poster, originally produced in 2016, has been updated in late 2022 to reflect current aquatic biodiversity in Alabama.

The following is a suggested reading list to learn more about Alabama’s unmatched aquatic biodiversity:

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Mid-Year Check-in for AWW Water Monitors

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.

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Exploring Our Living Streams Workshop in Pell City

In late July 2022, AWW teamed up with Benjamin Moore Company (yes – the paint people!) to host an Exploring Our Living Streams (EOLS) Educator Workshop to teach educators how to help their students learn about stream biomonitoring and watershed stewardship.

The EOLS workshop was held at Benjamin Moore’s facility in Pell City, Alabama, which included a wonderful outdoor classroom and access to Fishing Creek in the Coosa River Basin.

Read more about the workshop and Benjamin Moore’s environmental education program below!

Paul Tomaszewski with Benjamin Moore and AWW Staff Sergio RuizCordova kick off the workshop at the Outdoor Classroom at Benjamin Moore’s protected wetland and wildlife area. Photo credit: Mona Dominguez
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Green Infrastructure Tour of Auburn University

“Green infrastructure is an approach to water management that protects, restores, or mimics the natural water cycle. They are effective, economical, and enhance community safety and quality of life. It means planting trees and restoring wetlands, rather than building a costly new water treatment plant.” – American Rivers

Select stops from the June 2022 AU Campus Green Infrastructure Tour. Diagram by Sydney Zinner
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