UMD interns get training in marcro invertabrate water monitoring June 18-19

UMD volunteer staff and interns accompanied Professor Joe Schiller and some graduate students of Clarksville, TN into the field to learn about insects and bugs that live in the water. We resampled many streams that Schiller had sampled during his graduate work at the University of TN in Knoxville during the first big round of strip mining occuring in the late 60's and 70's. These included streams north of Lafollette in the Stinking Creek drainage and drainages within the New River Basin. We got to use d-shaped kick nets and YSI digital chemical water monitoring equipment. This two day training helped us develop our water monitoring protocal which we based on an existing North Carolina protocal. We decided to use this protocal because it provides a more complete sampling of the creek.