Alliance for Aqautic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)
As a Storm Water Coordinator at ALLARM from 2015-2016, I worked with the local community to raise awareness of the impacts that storm water runoff have on the ecosystem. I organized, planned, and facilitated various community-oriented workshops to promote pollution reduction strategies. For example, this year I particiated in two rain barrel workshops. The first was the construction of the event which involved Dickinson students. I presented information about ALLARM, stormwater, and the benefits of using a rainbarel (see video). The second event involved comunity members that were going to use these rain barrels. The presentation included similar information.
In addition, I led a tours of LeTort Spring Run to Dickinson students and community members. I focused on the health of the stream, prevalent stormwater issues, and the history of the creek. Another tour I led was located at the Mully Grub, a tributary to the LeTort Spring Run. The audience was a local high school, and I taught them about past ALLARM research on the water quality of this stream, and the restoration efforts used to mitigate urban pollution.
ALLARM's mission is to use citizen science to work with communities and provide assistance to watershed groups to help build their ability to address their local water quality concerns. Shale gas extraction is a problems in Pennsylvanian communities, and through ALLARM I visited Butler and Bradford county to speak with volunteer water quality monitors. This provided me experience to interact with communities and hear their first-hand stories about how hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has impacted their lives.
Adopt a Storm Drain Campaign
I am a watershed coordinator at the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) which is a non-profit organization affiliated with Dickinson College. I helped organize and facilitate the "Adopt a Storm Drain Campaign" which was implemented in collaboration with the Borough of Carlisle. This campaign helped the city meet requirements neccessary for the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer (MS4) Program.
I designed this Adopt a Storm Drain Poster, which were hung around the Dickinson campus and downtown Carlisle in order to find volunteers to adopt a local stormdrain and ensure it is free of litter and debris once a week.
