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Register now! Fourth Annual MiCorps Conference
October 20-21, 2008
Ralph A. MacMullan Conference
Center
Higgins Lake, Michigan
Register online! Visit our conference
webpage for the full conference program and information for how
to register online.
Registration deadline: Friday,
October 10, 2008
About the Conference
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.
Who Should Attend
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.
Special Training for Volunteer Monitors
On Monday, October 20th , MiCorps will offer special
training for volunteer monitors -- Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Search
and Identification. The training sessions will be held at the
MacMullan Conference center. The training is free of charge, but
space is limited. For additional information on the training
session, contact Paul Steen, psteen@hrwc.org , or call
734-769-5971.
For More Information
For
more information on the conference or volunteer training, please
contact Beth Johnson, MiCorps staff, Great Lakes Commission,
734-971-9135, ejohnson@glc.org . The conference program and
registration will be available soon on our conference website: http://www.micorps.net/conference
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