Education and Outreach
One initiative of the Water Temperature Working Group is to educate members of the public about the effects of climate change on their local watersheds, and engage a diverse audience in watershed conservation. Here is a collection of photos of photos and stories documenting outreach activities of group members since 2016.
Bethel students study their watersheds
The Androscoggin River Watershed Council has been engaging high school students at Gould Academy and Telstar High School in watershed conservation and providing hands-on training in our water temperature protocol since 2016. Students from Gould Academy have contributed long-term continuous temperature data in brook trout streams to our online database. Here, 2 students mix epoxy to create an anchor for a water temperature logger.
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Cobscook Community Learning Center
Since 2016, the US Fish & Wildlife Service has hosted hands-on annual protocol workshops to train new group members in our protocol. More and more students and classrooms are becoming involved with this project. In 2018, a class of 16 students from the Cobscook Community Learning Center attended hands-on training at Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge. Students helped biologists install epoxy-anchored temperature loggers to monitor water temperature at recently restored road crossings in alewife habitat.
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Trout Unlimited Involvement
Since 2017, 3 chapters of Trout Unlimited and a representative of Fly Fishers of Maine have joined this effort. Their knowledge of high-value brook trout streams has been invaluable to help us fill database gaps in small coastal streams and inland tributaries. Alewife, brook trout, and salmon all may utilize or pass through the streams monitored by these fishermen. In this photo, a volunteer with TU-Sebago learns to install a logger with epoxy anchor. Thank you for your efforts!
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Water Temperature Working Group At An Event Near You
Look for a WTWG member at an event near you! Since 2016, members of NOAA, IF&W and USFWS have tabled at events like the Common Ground Fair (Unity, ME), Maine Spring Live (Gilsland Farm, Falmouth) and Thinkers and Tinkers Expo (Dexter, ME) to educate the public about stream science.
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Fish Friends
4th graders at Falmouth Elementary School have been raising Atlantic salmon in the classroom for over a decade. The US Fish & Wildlife Service has visited this classroom at least once annually to teach students about restoration efforts for Atlantic salmon, and has been monitoring temperatures at their release site since 2016. Last year, USFWS visited the classroom to show the students how to use the Interactive Catchment Explorer, and showed students how to download data from the temperature logger on salmon release day.
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