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Welcome to the April 2009 edition of the MiCorps Monitor, our first online-only issue! That's right, the MiCorps Monitor is now paperless. As always, this edition is full of updates and information on the activities and individuals of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps). Browse the articles below, or go directly to the full newsletter online.
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Fourth Annual MiCorps Conference: Celebrating our Volunteers
The fourth annual Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) conference was held October 20-21, 2008 at the Ralph A. MacMullan Conference Center in Higgins Lake, Michigan.
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Volunteer Stream Monitoring Gains Steam across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
The Central Upper Peninsula Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program began in the spring of 2007 with the goals of training volunteers to collect baseline water quality data and increasing stewardship of aquatic resources through community involvement and education.
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Volunteer Stream Monitoring Grants Awarded for 2008
The MiCorps program is pleased to announce its support of four organizations under the 2008 Volunteer Stream Monitoring Grant Program, totaling nearly $50,000 in grant funds.
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Highlights from the Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program (CLMP)
Ralph Vogel has been collecting lake data for 35 years through the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s volunteer-based Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program (CLMP).
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The Volunteer Corner: An Interview with John Sanchez
and Roy Tassava (CLMP)
For the first installment of the Volunteer Corner, we caught up with volunteers John Sanchez and Roy Tassava, experienced team leaders of the Tip of the Mitt Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program.
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Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Five Year Watershed Assessment Cycle
In 1997, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) formed a water quality monitoring strategy that established a five year cycle in their monitoring of Michigan’s watersheds.
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MiCorps Updates
As with most things, change is to be expected. This, too, is true of the MiCorps team.
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Discussion Topic: What do you (want to) monitor?
Since MiCorps began, there has been discussion about what types of monitoring MiCorps should support. This question actually has several implied questions within it.
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