Making Community Connections

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Making Community Connections

• Research Projects With ALLARM Partner Groups

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The Alliance for Aquatic Resource
Monitoring(ALLARM)

• Works with communities to provide tools for them
  to undertake watershed assessments
• Provides Dickinson students with opportunities to
  participate in community-based research

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ALLARM theWatershed Semester

• Facilitate connections with ALLARM partners and
  students for research projects
• Provide opportunities for applying research to
  community concerns and needs
• Assist with year-long research projects

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Shermans Creek Conservation Association

• Perry County, north of Carlisle
• Rural watershed,increasing development pressure
• Active monitoring program

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Project Ideas

• Assist with research for Rivers Conservation
  Plan land use, cultural, recreation, water
  quality
• Watershed resident survey
• Where have all the hellbenders gone?
• Work with state forest on hemlock woolly adelgid
• Oral histories in cooperation with High School
  history club

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Codorus Creek Improvement Partnership

• City and County of York
• Urban and rural/suburban
• Activist Orientation

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Project Ideas

• Industrial discharge impacts
• Rivers as economic development/neighborhood
  revitalization
• Impact of industrial development vs.
  farms/residential
• Army Corps of Engineers - comparison with LA
• Effectiveness of CCIP Outreach Programs

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Ridge Valley Streamkeepers

• Bedford County
• Rural Watershed
• Potomac Drainage
• Active monitoring program
• Exceptional value waters

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Project Ideas

• Macroinvertebrate study comparing exceptional
  value and high quality waters
• Working with The Nature Conservancy on endangered
  species projects
• Studying effects of Concentrated Animal
  Operations
• Studying conversion of land use from farms to
  forests
• Economic issues - employment, retirement

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Antietam Watershed Association

• Waynesboro, Franklin County
• Rural with pockets of development
• Strong connections with local government and
  business
• New Monitoring Program

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Project Ideas

• Comparative study of two branches - different
  land uses
• Outreach with Mennonite farmers on water quality
  issues
• Success of new riparian buffers (6 miles)
• Bacteria
• Stormwater runoff