On Saturday 10th Feb 2024, the Merri EstuaryWatch volunteers partnered with the Glenelg Hopkins CMA to help deliver a highly enjoyable and informative Water Quality Monitoring workshop with students from South West TAFE Warrnambool.
Ten students from the Diploma of Conservation and Ecosystem Management were introduced to the EstuaryWatch Citizen Science program including monthly monitoring responsibilities, the importance of instrument calibration and the role that this captured data has on the management of our critically important intermittently closed estuaries.
Volunteers Karen Wales, Tom Sheehan and Liz Carey ran through specific monitoring techniques at our Stanley Street site, followed by the student’s getting hands and undertaking water quality testing on their own water quality samples.
Glenelg Hopkins CMA’s Senior Estuary Officer Jarred Obst said “That was a fantastic day! Karen, Liz and Tom were amazing with the students, and I was so proud to see them delivering such accurate and informative information about the monitoring they do and the importance of the EstuaryWatch program. The students would have got a huge amount out of the day”.
