Weekly Update
November 18, 2009
StreamWatch volunteer appreciation party
Announcements
Party pictures…
Click here to see more pictures of the volunteer appreciation party. And if you missed our demonstration of the new sampling protocol, you can watch it Here.
Fall sampling is over…
Thanks to everyone who sampled streams this fall! The winter monitoring season will be from December 15 – February 15, but we’ll be sampling only a few of our sites. We’ll be in touch with the monitors who should sample their sites this winter.
Fall certification…
Congratulations to Nicola McGoff, who became a certified monitor during the fall season.
November anniversaries…
Congratulations to the following volunteers, whose volunteer anniversaries are this month. Thanks so much for your work.
Nancy Friend – 7 years
Allen Hard – 7 years
Marjorie Siegel – 7 years
Bob’s Bug Facts…
(brought to you by Bob Henricks)
Mayflies use their gills for a number of things. Gills are used primarily to absorb oxygen from the water. In addition, burrowing mayflies flutter their gills to maintain their burrows. Mayflies in slow moving water flutter their gills to increase the flow of the water, better enabling them to draw oxygen out of the water. Some flatheaded mayflies use their gills as “suction cups” to help them cling to rocks. This flathead genus, Epeorus, is commonly found in a lot of our streams in the spring.
Thank you for volunteering with StreamWatch!
Rose Brown, Program Manager
StreamWatch
434.962.3527
P.O. Box 181
Ivy, VA 22945
Email Rose
www.streamwatch.org