Please join the National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC) for a webinar on a new fantastic tool and website, http://macroinvertebrates.org/. Pre-registration is required.
Volunteer Monitoring: Macroinvertebrates.org
Presented by:
- Marti Louw, Carnegie Mellon University
- Tara Muenz, Stroud Water Research Center
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University with Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Stroud Water Research Center, and Clemson University have officially launched www.macroinvertebrates.org, the online Atlas of Common Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Eastern North America. The expanded collection includes features nine orders of aquatic insects plus other benthic macroinvertebrates commonly used in water quality biomonitoring and environmental education, with 150 taxa total. In this webinar, Marti Louw and Tara Muenz will provide an overview of how this National Science Foundation funded project used a participatory design process with an interdisciplinary team of entomologists, educators, designers, and learning researchers in cooperation with regional volunteer biomonitoring organizations involved in water quality assessment. Additionally, they will demonstrate site features and functionality and cover how this open educational resource can be used to support macroinvertebrate identification training with volunteers and students to improve confidence, accuracy, and engagement.
The webinar will also be recorded. So if you are interested in the topic but cannot join live, register anyway. All registrants receive a link a pdf of the presentation as well as the webinar video on YouTube. You can always check back on the Council’s webinar page for historic webinars.
