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Join us for an evening discussion on how microplastics affect our environment and ourselves, and how we can conduct field samples to add to data gaps for a more recent environmental threat we are now facing.
Then, all participants are invited to the Wildwood Crest beach on Saturday, June 18th, and Sunday, June 19th, 8am-11am to practice microplastics sampling, where you will make your own sifter and submit scientific data. All ages are welcome, children must be accompanied by an adult. Please meet in front of the Wildwood Crest Library by 8am, and we will walk to the beach as a group.
New Jersey's waters are a valuable and vulnerable resource. For the past 21 years, the AmeriCorps New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors Program has played an important role in raising awareness of how human activities can affect water quality, especially in the most densely populated state in the nation. Each year, a new group of 20 Watershed Ambassadors engages with community members, channeling awareness into action. That’s approximately 400 members who have devoted themselves to protecting New Jersey’s water resources.
The AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors Program is administered by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water Monitoring and Standards. The goals of the program are to promote watershed stewardship through education and direct community involvement, and to monitor stream health through performing visual and biological assessments. Individual AmeriCorps members are assigned to each of New Jersey's 20 watershed management areas (WMAs) to serve as "Watershed Ambassadors" to their watershed communities. In addition to the 20 full-time Watershed Ambassadors, 3 part-time Source Water Protection Ambassadors are assigned to a region in Northern, Central, and Southern NJ. The Source Water Protection Ambassadors serve 900 hours from September – May, conducting education and stewardship projects that relate to sources of drinking water.
AmeriCorps is a national service initiative that engages more than 70,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet critical needs in education, public safety, health, homeland security, and the environment. Created in 1993, AmeriCorps is a part of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which engages more than 2 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service each year. For more information on the national AmeriCorps program, please visit their website at www.americorps.gov
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AGE GROUP: | 18 or older | 15-18 Years |
EVENT TYPE: | Natural History | Education |
TAGS: | watershed ambassadors | watershed | nature | microplastics | environment | conservation | beach |