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Celebrating our Volunteers : The Fourth Annual MiCorps Conference October 20 - 21, 2008 The fourth annual Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) conference will feature presentations from volunteers from across the state of Michigan . We will celebrate the amazing work that is being done by the MiCorps volunteers to protect Michigan 's lakes and streams. In addition, the conference will include presentations and training from regional experts, MiCorps staff and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Optional training for volunteers will take place on Monday, October 20 (see below), which is free of charge. The full conference program will take place on Tuesday, October 21 st . Linda Green, University of Rhode Island (URI) Cooperative Extension, will be our keynote speaker. Linda is a nationally-recognized leader and educator who has worked in the area of volunteer monitoring for over 20 years. She has been Director of the URI Watershed Watch program since 1988, a science-based volunteer water quality monitoring program that generates virtually all of the state's lake water quality monitoring data. She is also active on a regional and national scale with volunteer monitoring and has represented the volunteer monitoring community on the National Water Quality Monitoring Council since 1997, and cochairs its Collaboration and Outreach workgroup. For more information, see the complete conference program. The conference is intended for volunteer monitoring program leaders, citizen volunteers, water resource professionals, and others interested in the health and protection of Michigan’s rivers, lakes and streams. All volunteer monitoring programs are invited to showcase their monitoring efforts by presenting a poster or display during our Conference Reception on Monday evening. If you would like to display a poster about your program or organization, please contact Beth Johnson, MiCorps staff, Great Lakes Commission, 734-971-9135, ejohnson@glc.org . Special Training for Volunteer Monitors On Monday, October 20th, MiCorps will offer a special training workshops for volunteer monitors - Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Search and Identification. See the conference program for additional details on the training workshops. Please note that you may register for the free training session only, without attending the full conference. The workshops will be held at the MacMullan Conference center. The training is free of charge, but space is limited. For additional information on the training sessions, contact Paul Steen, psteen@hrwc.org, or call 734-769-5123. The conference registration fee is $35 and includes lunch on Tuesday, breaks and all conference materials. Dormitory-style lodging is available at the MacMullan Center at a rate of $35.50 for a double room and $60 for a single room (both include breakfast on Tuesday). Monday night dinner is also available at the MacMullan Center for an additional cost of $16.50. Please visit our online registration page to register for the conference and to reserve lodging. If you cannot register online, please contact Matt Doss at the Great Lakes Commission for assistance (734-971-9135, mdoss@glc.org).The registration deadline is Monday, October 10, 2007. For more information, please contact Beth Johnson or Matt Doss , MiCorps support staff, Great Lakes Commission, 734-971-9135. ***The Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) was created through an executive order by Governor Jennifer M. Granholm to assist the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in collecting and sharing water quality data for use in water resources management and protection programs. For more information about the DEQ's Water Bureau, please visit their website: www.michigan.gov/deqwb.*** |
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