Training Watershed Stewards in the Carlsbad Hydrologic Unit

Help Monitor Watershed Quality
Training Description
Training Details:

Help Monitor Watershed Quality!

Are you looking for opportunities to "make a difference" in your community, while enjoying the outdoors and meeting new people?

The Watershed Stewards Training is designed to demonstrate the interrelationship of watershed health, beauty, recreation, economics and citizen behavior; and provides residents with a vehicle to get involved individually & collectively to protect and improve our environment and its natural resources through the monitoring of water quality. Dawson Sampling

The Watershed Stewards Training is a program where citizens are trained to help monitor the health of their environment and watershed. You can help your city to gather information that will provide vital data to make better decisions about water quality.

By participating, you can become a part of your local conservancy's effort to perform water quality assessments in your local watershed.

We are currently looking to establish monitoring groups for each of the creeks within the Carlsbad Hydrologic Unit. See My Watershed to determine in which watershed you live.

Training Description

The Watershed Stewards Training is designed to get you involved. Each day is hands-on, working collaboratively, exchanging ideas and learning new skills. Sessions are designed around a discussion format.

The WST is a three-day training that compliments the Stream Team model by providing participants with a tour of the Agua Hedionda Creek watershed from the headwaters to the ocean. Measuring Dawson Creek

Day 1: Take a tour of the Agua Hedionda Creek from its headwaters to the coast. See first hand what a watershed is and how different land uses affect the services that natural systems provide to keep our waters clean.
Day 2: Learn how to test water quality using physical guidelines, chemical tests and biological sampling.
Day 3: Learn how to sort the benthic macro invertebrates (technical term, bugs) and determine water quality by the presence and concentration of the different species in the samples you collect.

Training Details

Training locations:
On the Agua Hedionda Creek (Vista, San Marcos, Carlsbad)/ Discovery Center at Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation
At the Dawson Reserve in Vista
At CSU San Marcos science laboratory

Upcoming Training:
Training 1: Completed.
Training 2: March Training Completed.
Training 3: July Training Completed.
Training 4: Oct. Training Completed.

No Training Scheduled at This Time!

Training costs:
Free to residents, employees, educators and students in the Carlsbad Watershed. (Cities of Oceanside, Vista, San Marcos, Escondido, Solana Beach, Encinitas and Carlsbad.)

Registration and contact:
Online registration

Contact:
San Diego Stream Team, sdstream@yahoo.com