The River Mile Network
An Education Program of the National Park Service
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Happy Autumn!
Wow! There are lots of exciting events happening this fall and lots of things to learn. Take a look below!
Janice Elvidge
Executive Director
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The River Mile Community Gathering
Conservation of North American Crayfishes
Wednesday September 22, 2021
3:30 to 4:30 PM Pacific Time
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Presenter:
Christopher A. Taylor
Lead Scientist and Curator of Crustaceans
The North American crayfish fauna is the richest in the World. When coupled with their significant ecosystem impacts, the conservation of this unique fauna should be of upmost importance.
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Chronolog: citizen science, monitoring, education, interpretation, and more!
The Forest Service Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Community of Practice (FSCCS)
Webinar
Wednesday September 15, 2021
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM Eastern Time
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Presenters
Jake Rose, Coordinator, Chronolog
Laura Brennan, Biologist, National Park Service
Join the US Forest Service for an introduction to Chronolog, a photo point monitoring tool that utilizes repeat photography at a fixed location to monitor landscapes (and potentially change) through time!
Questions: Stacie Bender, SM.FS.fsccs@usda.gov
Join The webinar
PHONE 1-636-352-2946
Code: 113 083 738
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Public Meeting Notice for the Washington Invasive Species Council
Thursday, September 16, 2021
9:00 am to 3:00 pm Pacific Time
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The agenda is available online.
Please note that this is an online meeting and you are encouraged to register in advance. Registration is available on Zoom. When registering, it is not necessary to disclose your name unless you plan to testify. Instead you can simply register as “anonymous”.
Testimony, correspondence, and questions about the board materials should be directed to Wyatt Lundquist, Board Liaison, at wyatt.lundquist@rco.wa.gov.
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The Powerful Connection Between Education, Climate, and Justice: Town Hall Webinar
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
2:00pm to 3:30pm Pacific Time
Organization:
Join NAAEE for a hopeful and engaging Town Hall Webinar with Governor Jay Inslee from Washington State and a number of other leading educators focused on climate literacy, climate justice, and education. Continue Reading...
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North American Association for Environmental Education
50th Anniversary Conference
October 12-15, 2021
Virtual
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The conference will celebrate the power of connection and the profound, restorative role of the natural world in our lives. Together, we’ll reflect on all we’ve learned about the power of environmental education to bring people of all backgrounds and disciplines together to solve our most pressing problems and to create more just and sustainable communities.
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Pacific Northwest Citizen Science Summit
October 26 and 27, 2021
9:00 am to Noon Pacific Time
Virtual
Calling all citizen scientists and program managers! Several regional agencies and organizations have partnered to convene the first-ever Pacific Northwest Citizen Science Summit.
Do you participate or manage a project or program that engages community members to collect and analyze information? Whether it is a small or large effort and regardless of the focus we want you to attend a landmark event to discover opportunities to collaborate and amplify cumulative impacts.
The overall objective of the summit is to connect citizen science practitioners and managers for the purpose of creating partnerships and synergies between projects. By working together, we will be more effective than working alone. Specifically, the summit has the following goals:
- Bring awareness of existing programs and share successes
- Enhance communication and collaboration between programs
- Share strategies and tools for starting and maintaining a program or project, participant retention and the benefits of launching new programs
- Highlight best practices and data standards
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Facilitate a discussion about formalizing PNWCitSci.org as an organization to host future summits
The event will be held between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on October 26th and October 27th, 2021 via Zoom webinar.
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The River Mile Network Opportunities |
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Join the Crayfish Study and Contribute Valuable Data!
The River Mile Network under the supervision of Dr. Eric Larson, University of Illinois, is pleased announce that our new online data collection forms are ready for use!
Data from this project will help inform researchers about the species distribution throughout the Columbia River Watershed and beyond.
The project leaders are especially interested in locating and identifying species below Dry Falls in Eastern Washington AND in the Okanogan River region. They believe there is an undescribed species of crayfish in those places which have not been documented (geolocated and photographed for identification). You and your students may be the first to record new species of crayfish!
Join the study by completing the on-demand virtual crayfish training. For those in Washington, Oregon or Idaho, once you have completed the virtual on demand training you can be added your state permit. The permit allows for year-round data collection.
Without the research permit data may be collected May 1 to October 31 in Washington with a valid state fishing license and in waters open to crayfish fishing.
Anything you can do to help researchers will be of benefit!
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Crayfish Study Data Collection Forms are Live! |
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We use Survey123, a tool in the ArcGIS suite of mapping software and applications for the collection and storage of data. The purpose of this technology is to collect real-time data without the need for additional GPS equipment.
We have 2 forms from which to choose. One form is shorter and requires less data. The other form is longer and has more required data and a variety of optional data choices.
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Practice Crayfish Data Collection and Submission
There is also a training data submission form for the Crayfish Study; it looks nearly identical to the real form, but data is not stored in the same database or map. You can use this form yourself and share it with your students so they can practice collecting and submitting data.
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Volunteer Opportunities with The River Mile Network
There are a number of volunteer opportunities to help The River Mile Network. As the network continues to grow it is getting harder for a few people to make everything happen.
- 2022 Crayfish Conference Chair
- Washington State Coordinator
- Watershed Facilitators
- Development Assistant--Finance
- Development Assistant--Online Library
- Development Assistant--Website
- Newsletter Editor
In addition, we are looking for persons or groups that are willing to test new materials.
If you are interested in helping The River Mile in any of the above opportunities, please E-mail us!
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Partners in Science:
Experience a Career Changing Opportunity —
and Get Paid to do it!
October 6, 2021
4:30-5:30 PM Pacific Time
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Washington Science Teachers Association (WSTA) and The Murdock Trust are joining to bring you an informational webinar on a fantastic PD.
Partners in Science: Experience a Career Changing Opportunity — and Get Paid to do it!
When was the last time you had a professional development experience that was specifically designed with the science teacher in mind? A professional development opportunity where you can see yourself as a scientist and an integral part of a scientific community? Where you get to experience the processes of science that we try to provide for our students?
The Murdock Charitable Trust recognizes the importance and value of science education and the importance of transformative experiences around science research and education. The Partners in Science Program has been such a transformative experience for over 600 science teachers for over 30 years.
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Pacific Education Institute
is Hiring!
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Recruitment Announcement: Eastern Washington FieldSTEM Coordinator
Recruitment Closes: Open until filled
Start Date: Negotiable
Job Description:
The FieldSTEM Coordinator, Eastern Washington region, is the point of contact for PEI, coordinating the implementation of FieldSTEM. This position is responsible for creating and maintaining partnerships with school districts, educational leaders, nonformal educators and local agricultural, natural resource and environmental science professionals to facilitate planning and implementation of FieldSTEM. This is a home or field-based position requiring travel within, but not limited to, the Eastern Washington region identified as Ferry, Stevens, Pend Oreille, Lincoln, Spokane, Adams, Whitman, Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties. PEI is a statewide organization headquartered in Olympia, Washington
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Water Research Webinar on Valuing Aquatic Ecosystem Health at a National Scale
Modeling Biological Indicators Across Space and Time
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
2:00-3:00pm Eastern Time
with an optional Q&A session from 3:00-3:15pm ET.
EPA's Office of Research and Development hosts the Water Research Webinar Series to share current research activities and results.
EPA estimates the benefits of preserving aquatic resources using the water quality index (WQI). The WQI focuses on metrics related to human use, such as recreation, but fails to fully capture aspects important to nonuse values of aquatic ecosystems, such as existence values. Stated preference surveys can quantify the nonuse values of streams and lakes but require an appropriate index of biological health to be able to measure and compare biological condition. Continue Reading....
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EPA Researchers Investigate Impacts of Wildfires on Water Resources
Published September 7, 2021
According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report, the world is getting warmer, and in the western United States, that translates into drought and significantly increased wildfire activity. In September 2020, western Oregon experienced unprecedented wildfires that dramatically affected people’s lives, infrastructure, and the environment, and impacted drinking water sources. Continue Reading...
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Climate change comes for a favorite summer pastime: fishing
As the West suffers another summer of drought and fire, fishing holes there and elsewhere are feeling the heat.
BY CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KHOLOOD EID
PUBLISHED AUGUST 27, 2021
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The Middle Fork of the Flathead River is born in the high rocky country of western Montana near the roof-ridge of the continent. At first, the river is little more than a shouting mountain stream. For the next 40 miles its waters run fast and headache-cold through green wilderness. The river gathers the snowmelt off Muskrat Pass and Slippery Bill Mountain and a half-dozen creeks, tumbling over eager westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout as it earns its reputation as one of the beloved waterways of the American West. Continue Reading...
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Practice Crayfish Data Collection and Submission
Use this form yourself, share it with your students and have them “collect” practice data and practice submitting using this Survey123 Training Form.
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