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

Katelyn Tabling at the Sustainability Expo

A Day in the Life – Outreach Team!

One of the overarching goals of our Outreach Team is to make the work that ALLARM does, and resources for community science, accessible and relatable. In each project the team works on, we endeavor to share all of the wonderful things our employees, volunteers, and…

2025 Student Open House!

Hiring for the next school year is in full swing... so what better way to engage with interested students than to hold an Open House Event! This was my first time being able to help with this student-run event and I am so happy I…

Westmoreland Data Interpretation

On Thursday, March 20th, I had the privilege of attending a virtual Westmoreland Stream Team Data Interpretation Meeting, along with my colleagues Jill Arriola (Staff Scientist), Lindsay VanFossen (Water Quality Technician), and fellow Watershed Coordinator Emma Spinelli ‘25. This virtual event, aimed at informing the…