Volunteer Monitoring

The Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM), the Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative (Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and the Izaak Walton League), and the Stroud Water Research Center collaborated to develop a Community-Based Restoration Monitoring Protocol, an effort funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). Since its launch in 2021, the team has developed and field tested a comprehensive study design and community-based protocol made to monitor the effectiveness and progress of select stream restoration approaches including riparian plantings, dirt and gravel road projects, stream bank restoration, stream-floodplain connection, and exclusion fencing. Now fully rolled out, the Restoration Monitoring team has begun monitoring (in both the spring and the fall) at select sites throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. 

Want to learn more about to protocol? Check out the home page HERE
Interested in getting involved? Look out for monitoring opportunities shared through our newsletter and social media as monitoring season approaches!