This third annual event
was designed to introduce water monitoring to 50 6th grade school
children from the Williamsburg-James City County school system. The
event consisted of two keynote speakers - Mr. Ralph White, the
Richmond City Parks Department Naturalist and administrator of the
James River Park system, and Mr. Dennis Slade, the Environmental
Affairs Director for Infineon Technologies Richmond of Sandston
Virginia. Mr. White discussed the importance of Citizen Monitoring and
the role that school children can play in monitoring the environment,
and Mr. Slade talked about the critical importance that clean fresh
water plays in the production of computer memory chips. Infineon
Corporation is an international maker of computer memory chips and was
recently recognized as an "Exemplary Environmental
Enterprise" in Virginia.
The school children also
toured four stations and received hands on training in water quality
monitoring, benthic invertebrate identification, fish shocking, and
the "Chesapeake Bayscape".
The Richmond event
organized by Tracy Hancock with the USGS is one of three Virginia
Water Monitoring Day events held today. The other Virginia events were
held in the Upper Tennessee River basin, and in the Roanoke River
basin.
Maps
and data from Virginia for World Water Monitoring Day 2004
Maps
and data from Virginia for World Water Monitoring Day 2003.
Maps
and data from Virginia Water Monitoring Day 2002.
