Mid-Atlantic Volunteer Monitoring Conference Nears

The Mid-Atlantic Volunteer Monitoring Conference is an opportunity for volunteer monitors to learn and to share. Held every other year throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, the conference draws volunteer monitors from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington DC. The purpose behind this biennial conference is to provide a setting where volunteer monitors can all come together to share their ideas and accomplishments and also to learn new techniques to achieve their goals of watershed protection.

The host venue for the 2009 conference is Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. ALLARM, the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring, based at Dickinson College, is organizing the conference. " We're providing the venue... we were chosen because of our location in central PA. Dickinson College is easily accessible to volunteers from the rest of EPA Region 3 as well those from Pennsylvania", said Jinnie Woodward, Assistant Director of ALLARM.

Again, registration for this conference is free to the first 150 participants, after that the cost is $35/person. Click here to register.