The purpose of this blog is to provide a place where trained Water Quality Monitors in the Missouri Stream Team program can post calendar items, requests for assistance from Stream Team AmeriCorps or other WQMs, site descriptions, WQM data results (if you like), pictures of your activities, or to muse and speculate with others about water quality in your watershed.
It is my hope that this site will attain a critical mass of germaine and relevent posts so that inactive water quality monitors can more easily find opportunities to use the skills the've learned at the WQM workshops, and that WQMs with active investigation sites can solicit help when wanted.
Know that you can post pictures, but that many folks may have painfully slow internet connections and that the larger the file size the longer it takes to load. The stonefly picture below is a thumbnail. If you click on it, you'll get the 1.42 megabyte jpeg. Cool, huh? Got a bug you don't know? Post it here. Maybe we can help.
This site will be monitored by current and past Missouri Stream Team AmeriCorps Assistants in the St. Louis region. It is intended as a communication vehicle for all WQMs in Eastern Missouri-- principally in Mark Van Patten's region, which extends from Lincoln county to the bootheel.
Depending on use and abuse (if we get SPAM postings, for instance) the security rules for posting to the site may change. More later.
To post to this blog you need a Google login identification and password. If you don't have one you can get one for free by clicking "sign in" in the upper right. Clicking the "create blog" button above will allow you to create your own blogsite for your own purpose-- it is not for posting to this one. It gets easy with experience. Welcome to the brave new world of "blogging".
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