Training Workshop Description
DRAFT SUBJECT TO REVISION

Workshop attendees are asked to dress for the weather.
If it rains, we get wet!

We will be wading for the biological assessments so
be prepared to get wet from the knees down, (Boots, creek shoes
no bare feet please!)  We may be hiking and covering rough terrain
along stream banks.  Be ready for that!

Bring a map of your area of interest that shows roads and streams. 

Bring a sack lunch.  

Workshop Agenda (Draft version 1.0)

1. Introductions (20:00)
2. project background and mission(20:00)  
3. "State of the River Basin" (20:00:
4. volunteer organization and project logistics (20:00)
5. Map Exercise and matching volunteers to watersheds (free-for all)
6. (morning break)(30:00 for both 5-6)
7. Monitoring Protocol Lecture 
    1-Basics of Habitat Assessment (30:00)
    2-Basics of Biological Monitoring (10:00)
    3-Basics of Chemical Testing and Sample Collection (10:00)

8. Lunch (Brown Bag) Presentation by host institution (45:00)

After Lunch we travel to a stream site.  
We usually use a creek or wetland no more than waste deep! 
(4th order-6th order)
Lake training will be dockside.

At the creek we have three workstations.            
1. Habitat Assessment 50:00
2. Biological Monitoring 50:00
3. Chemical Testing and Sample Collection. 50:00

Volunteers will rotate between the three stations. at 45 
minute intervals with 5 minutes to rotate.

After the field exercise, Monitoring volunteers will be asked
to return to the meeting facility for equipment check out and
"graduation". 

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