Conference web page, with agenda and registration: www.micorps.net/conference2007
Registration deadline has been
extended until 5 pm tomorrow, Tuesday, October 9, 2007!
The third annual Michigan Clean Water Corps
-- MiCorps -- conference is an excellent opportunity for volunteer monitoring
program leaders, citizen volunteers, and water resource professionals to gather
and share ideas about volunteer monitoring.
The conference will feature presentations from regional experts and provide training for both beginning and advanced monitoring programs. Conference sessions will address such topics as fundraising; managing and using your data; designing a monitoring strategy; outreach and collaboration; E. coli monitoring; and monitoring Michigan’s lakes.
In addition, representatives from MiCorps and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will review trends in water quality in Michigan and discuss the role that volunteer monitoring data plays in supporting water quality protection efforts in Michigan. Peter Jackson, Volunteer Monitoring Coordinator for U.S. EPA’s Midwest Region 5, will present the keynote address. He will provide a regional perspective on volunteer monitoring and discuss key issues facing volunteer monitoring programs, including program sustainability and volunteer retention.
Three optional training sessions for volunteer monitors will be offered on Monday:
There is no charge for these training sessions, but space is limited. The full conference program will take place on Tuesday, October 16th.
For more information about the conference, and to view the conference agenda and registration, please visit our conference web page: www.micorps.net/conference2007.
For more information, please contact Beth Johnson,
MiCorps staff, Great Lakes Commission, 734-971-9135, ejohnson@glc.org or visit our conference website www.micorps.net/conference2007.
*****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 MiCorps program, please visit http://www.micorps.net.