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
Kicking off the Summer Experience with Macros!
On June 14th, the ALLARM team packed up and headed north to Tunkhannock for a macroinvertebrate workshop with the Northern Tier Stream Team. There, we trained community members on our macroinvertebrate identification and collection protocol. The workshop kept its participants busy in the stream all…
Full-Circle Class Visits
After a relaxing and rejuvenating Spring Break, ALLARM’s student watershed coordinators sprung back into action by visiting Professor Benka-Coker and Professor Douglas’ ENST 162 classes to give presentations on ALLARM’s community science efforts. During the presentation, we introduced ALLARM as an organization to the students…
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…