Calendar of Upcoming Events

To add an event related to volunteer monitoring to the MiCorps calendar, contact Laura Kaminski: laurak@glc.org

January 2010

• Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Identification Course

Fridays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (starting January 19th)

North Central Michigan College, Petoskey, MI

Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council's Kevin Cronk will be teaching an aquatic macroinvertebrate identification course this winter at North Central Michigan College (BIO 297: Special Topics in Biology). Students will be taught to identify most aquatic insects, crustaceans and other macroinvertebrates found in Northern Michigan lakes and streams to the family level (exceptions include groups like oligochaets = aquatic worms). Course consists of weekly lectures and lab ID sessions, biweekly cumulative ID quizzes, four outdoor field trips for collecting specimens, and developing family-level collections.

Registration information is available at: www.ncmich.edu/studserv/regsteps.asp

Tuition fees vary depending on residency ($72 - $153 per credit hour): www.ncmich.edu/pay4college/calcul.asp. An additional course fee of $35 will cover the cost of field equipment, ethanol for specimen preservation, etc.

Please contact Kevin Cronk at kevin@watershedcouncil.org or (231) 347-1181 for more information.

 

April 2010

• 2010 Water Quality Monitoring Conference (hosted by the National Water Quality Monitoring Council)

April 25-29, 2010

Denver, CO

The conference will focus on the many facets of water quality and quantity monitoring for improved understanding, protection, and restoration of our natural resources and communities. View the Call for Papers for more specifics on themes and potential topics of interest.

For additional information as it becomes available, go to: http://acwi.gov/monitoring/conference/2010/index.html.index.

 

• 49th Annual Michigan Lake and Stream Associations (ML&SA) Conference

April 30 - May 1, 2010

Radisson Hotel, Lansing, MI

More information will be provided as it is available. Or, you can check the ML&SA website for updates at http://mlswa.org/.

Future Events and Conferences

For a broader list of events and topics of interest to the water resources community, visit the Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI) site: http://acwi.gov/monitoring/meetings.html.