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
Restoration Monitoring on the Yellow Breeches
On July 3, the ALLARM team hosted a workshop at the Yellow Breeches Creek with Cumberland County project partners to go over the Community-Based Restoration Monitoring Protocol. This protocol, which has been in development for the past few years, is aimed at assessing the effectiveness…
Training the Northern Tier Stream Team
On Friday, June 14th, ALLARM staff Jules Vastine (ALLARM director), Isabel Ruff (Volunteer Monitoring Specialist), Crosby Wilkin ‘26, Uyen Bui ‘27, and myself embarked on a three-hour road trip to Susquehanna County to visit ALLARM’s Northern Tier Stream Team for their third in-person training. The…
What’s Up With the pH Dropper Bottles?
ALLARM’s manuals and procedures are curated to make sure volunteers are consistently getting good quality results from their water quality testing. One of the trainer tips used by our volunteers, and highlighted in our Stream Team manual, which may often being overlooked is the angle…