Maryland Stream Waders

Training Sessions

Volunteers agree to participate in a one day training session and then spend about two more days during the March-April sampling window collecting aquatic invertebrate samples from stream beds.

Training consists of four basic parts: classroom instruction, GPS familiarization, actual sample collection practice (Bring your waders!), and choosing your watershed to sample, as illustrated below.

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DNR's Chris Millard provides classroom instruction in basic stream ecology, benthic macroinvertebrates and Stream Waders sampling methods to volunteers at Wor-Wic Community College.

 Chris Millard leading classroom portion of Stream Waders training at Wor-Wic community College
GPS training at Centreville

Volunteers at Centreville Middle School learn the use of the GPS units to determine the site location.

Trainees at Frostburg State University's Appalachian Laboratory learn how to collect a sample...
from start...Frostburg team collecting D-net sample ... to finish.Frostburg team transferring sample from seive bucket to sample pail
Volunteers at Wor-Wic Community College pore over the watershed maps and choose sites to sample.
Volunteers at Wor-Wic Community College pore over the watershed maps and choose sites to sample.
Trainees come from many places....
Trainees at Fair Hill session -- another cold and windy day. college students examining their D-nets.
Trainees at Fair Hill session -- another cold and windy day. College students at Centreville training examining their D-nets in order to compare their effectiveness in doing "the riffle shuffle".
Several Wor-Wic trainees are sampling to support the Maryland Coastal Bays Program Several Wor-Wic trainees sampled to support the Maryland Coastal Bays Program.
Maria Tysiachniouk of St Petersburg, Russia practicing D-net sampling at Fair Hill training. Maria Tysiachniouk of St Petersburg, Russia practicing D-net sampling at Fair Hill training.

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