I started off with ALLARM as a curious sophomore at Dickinson College, looking to connect with an academic group of like-minded individuals. Once I got an offer from Director Julie Vastine to become a Watershed Coordinator, I knew that this space would be a pivotal…
Working with ALLARM for my first week has been one of the highlights of my week. I was able to get a taste of all the hard work that goes into ALLARM. I listened to two meetings…the first one being a Stream Team Open Call.…
The Chesapeake Bay Forum, an annual event attended by individuals with a like-interest in protecting and improving the health of our watershed, took a unique spin this year to cater to pandemic safety precautions, and was entirely virtual. Instead of travelling to West Virginia to…
On November 9th, 2020, ALLARM held a stream team workshop with York County’s Master Watershed Stewards. This training session went through our stream team manual and the chemical tests our volunteers do to show step-by-step demonstrations on each chemical test, which includes the conductivity, nitrate-nitrogen,…
On October 6, 2020 I was fortunate enough to represent ALLARM by presenting in a session in the Pennsylvania Conservation District Watershed Specialist Webinar series alongside Julie Vastine and Shante Toledo. This event (replacing the in-person conference conditions) marks the 20th year of the Conservation…
On September 30th, ALLARM was invited by the Allegheny County Conservation District to lead a Data Interpretation Webinar as a part of their “advocate for your watershed” series. Julie Vastine, ALLARM's Director, and Suzanne Hartley, ALLARM's Assistant Director, led the webinar with the goal of…
Isabel: On August 31, ALLARM hosted their first virtual chemical training workshop for Lackawanna and Luzerne Master Watershed Stewards who are participating in ALLARM’s Stream Team program. It was an exciting milestone because adapting to online workshops allows us to continue training new volunteers even…
Event: Stream Team Refresher Training ALLARMies: Julie Vastine, Suzanne Hartley, Hayat Rasul, Hiba Aoid, Isabel Ruff On July 15, 2020, ALLARM hosted a virtual refresher meeting for Stream Team volunteers. After suspending volunteer monitoring for four months due to the pandemic, this meeting was…
Columbia Stream Team Virtual Data Explorer Meeting Participants: Hiba Aoid '21, Rachel Krewson '20, Karan Shakya '20, Helen Schlimm On March 26, 2020, Community Science Specialist Helen Schlimm along with three watershed coordinators Rachel Krewson, Karan Shakya, and myself, held a virtual Zoom meeting with…
The zoom Data Interpretation meeting on April 4th, 2020 with the Johnston’s Run Revitalization volunteer monitoring group was bittersweet for me in my final days as a Watershed Coordinator at ALLARM. As the first group I helped to train when I joined ALLARM, Johnston’s Run…
