Using On-line Data and Tools for Your Watershed

The second run of the Capacity Building Workshop on “Using On-line Data and Tools for Your Watershed” is being held on Friday, August 7 at Parkland College in Champaign, IL.

The registration deadline is July 27, and there are a few spots still available.  The workshop is intended for planners, technical analysts, or outreach coordinators who will apply this information to their watershed work.  Please join us!

 

Chicago participants provided wonderful feedback on how the workshop went.  Those of you already signed up for the August 7 workshop have much to look forward to, and we invite more of you to attend.

Feedback From Participants

What did you like about this workshop?

hands-on activities; excellent handouts

very helpful to have one-on-one tutorial assistance

interactive components; being able to actually click and explore helps process the information

excellent speakers who made following along very easy and understandable

D2M workbook is awesome and should help a lot; the binder is a great resource

learning about the ways to use excel to help quantify data and give a visual representation

How will you apply this material
to your watershed work?

The outreach track will be useful to educate our residents.

We are now more familiar with using the data to make it more accessible and understandable to the general public.

This material will help me continue the planning and implementation process in local watershed planning.

It will make it easier to quantify our base-line data.

This material will be useful for us to identify impaired waters.

What I learned will help me in obtaining and working through available data.

This could add another useful layer of information when reporting current conditions.

 

Registration:

To register for the August 7 workshop, please e-mail Alison Meanor at ameanor@prairierivers.org  or phone her at (217) 344-2371.  Indicate whether you will attend the Technical Track or the Outreach Track for your afternoon session: 

Technical Track

    *      Practice putting data and maps into Excel-based tool for use.

    *      Create informative maps/resources for your watershed group.

    *      Input monitoring data and images of an area.

    *      Create a customized water quality monitoring template.

    *      Use data to calculate monitoring needs.

 Outreach Track

    *      U.S. EPA’s Non-Point Source (NPS) outreach tool box

    *      download Public Service Announcements and customize them for your needs

    *      websites made easy

    *      available on-line watershed tools

 A detailed article describing this workshop is in the previous post:
“Register Now for PRN’s Summer Workshop“

Pay your $15.00 workshop cost the day of the event, or make your check payable to Prairie Rivers Network and mail it to:

Prairie Rivers Network
ATTN:  Alison Meanor
1902 Fox Drive, Suite G
Champaign, IL 61820

This workshop is a part of our continuing efforts to build capacity in Illinois watersheds.
Funding is provided through an IEPA and U.S. EPA CWA 319 grant.