About ALLARM's blog
Welcome to the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring’s (ALLARM) blog! The ALLARM team has a number of fun adventures working with communities and volunteers interested in assessing the health of their streams. The goal of our blog is to share our experiences and bring you on our journey. We hope you learn more about community-based science and the amazing work taking place in Pennsylvania and New York. If you would like to learn more about ALLARM, go to dickinson.edu/allarm and follow us on social media @ALLARMwater!
Address: Dickinson College/ALLARM
P.O. Box 1773
Carlisle, PA 17013
Tel: (717) 245-1565
Email: allarm@dickinson.edu
Volunteer Monitoring
Something New on the Horizon for Mountain Creek Trout Club
At the heart of ALLARM’s mission is the goal of providing communities with the right tools and resources to collect and interpret data on their local waterways. It is this goal that drives ALLARM to connect with volunteer water monitors across the state and Chesapeake…
Johnston’s Run Revitalization Council is Ready to Upload Their Own Data!
On September 25, ALLARM conducted a virtual training workshop for members of the Johnston’s Run Revitalization Council (JRRC). The goal of the workshop was to teach volunteers how to upload the data they collect directly into the Chesapeake Data Explorer (a centralized data repository) instead…
Looking Beyond 2025 for the Chesapeake Bay
You are Here The Chesapeake Bay watershed encompasses 64,000 square miles within six states (PA, DE, MD, NY, VA, WV and DC), accommodating over 18.5 million people and 3,600 plant and animal species (What is a Watershed?, n.d.). Within it's bounds are over 100,000 tributaries, such…