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Making Community
Connections
Research Projects With ALLARM Partner Groups
The Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring
(ALLARM)
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Works with communities to provide tools for
them to undertake watershed assessments
Provides Dickinson students with opportunities
to participate in community-based research
ALLARM & the
Watershed Semester
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Facilitate connections with
ALLARM partners and
students for research
projects
Provide opportunities for
applying research to
community concerns and
needs
Assist with year-long
research projects
Shermans Creek
Conservation Association
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Perry County, north of Carlisle
Rural watershed,increasing development
pressure
Active monitoring program
Project Ideas
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Assist with research for Rivers
Conservation Plan: land use, cultural,
recreation, water quality
Watershed resident survey
Where have all the hellbenders gone?
Work with state forest on hemlock woolly
adelgid
Oral histories in cooperation with High
School history club
Codorus Creek Improvement Partnership
•City and County of York
•Urban and rural/suburban
•Activist Orientation
Project Ideas
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Industrial discharge impacts
Rivers as economic
development/neighborhood
revitalization
Impact of industrial development vs.
farms/residential
Army Corps of Engineers - comparison
with LA
Effectiveness of CCIP Outreach
Programs
Ridge & Valley Streamkeepers
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Bedford County
Rural Watershed
Potomac Drainage
Active monitoring program
Exceptional value waters
Project Ideas
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Macroinvertebrate study comparing
exceptional value and high quality waters
Working with The Nature Conservancy on
endangered species projects
Studying effects of Concentrated Animal
Operations
Studying conversion of land use from
farms to forests
Economic issues - employment, retirement
Antietam Watershed Association
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Waynesboro, Franklin County
Rural with pockets of development
Strong connections with local government and
business
New Monitoring Program
Project Ideas
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Comparative study of two branches different land uses
Outreach with Mennonite farmers on water
quality issues
Success of new riparian buffers (6 miles)
Bacteria
Stormwater runoff