Carlisle & Campus

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ALLARM collaborates in the Dickinson College campus to enrich student experiences with community-based environmental opportunities, build connections in our campus network, and further the work of our students and organization. Please email us or stop by our offices in Kaufman if you are interested in collaborating!

Collaborative Opportunities

ALLARM works to deliver a variety of community-based environmental learning opportunities. Here are some of the ways we work with the campus community:

Lectures

On average ALLARM presents to 12 classes each year, ranging from anthropology to economics. ALLARM can provide readings and create a presentation tailored to meet your needs and desired topic.

Labs

In the past we helped with impromptu labs examining elevated conductivity from road salt in Carlisle, but we are happy to brainstorm!

Field Trips

We have a number of community and agency contacts, and are happy to help facilitate field trips. In the past, we have helped organize trips to areas with active extractive industries to tours of local water management facilities.

Guest Speakers

Our network of community and environmental advocates in Pennsylvania is extensive, and we are more than happy to connect you with outside guest speakers in our field.

Service Learning

We collaborate with faculty members and campus groups to coordinate service learning projects for students.

Independent Research and Studies

From acting as a resource to students doing independent research to collaborating on research projects, we are happy to help brainstorm ideas and/or connect your students to partner organizations.

Collaborative Themes

ALLARM partners members of the Dickinson campus to provide relevant learning experiences on a variety of topics, including:

Environmental Policy

• Clean Water Act: translation to PA code.
• Pennsylvania environmental movement role in policy initiatives.
• Chesapeake Bay: from Obama's executive order to on the ground projects.

Stream Monitoring

• Study design creation: 10 step process for determining the "why, who, how, what, where" of a monitoring plan, with case studies for classroom scenarios.
• Watershed Delineation
• Chemical monitoring, macroinvertebrate analysis, visual assessment.
• LeTort Monitoring: data on 10 sites throughout the watershed from 1990-today.
• Introduction to Aquatic Data Interpretation: using a virtual watershed, statistical summaries, and Pennsylvania water quality criteria.

Unconventional Drilling

• Introduction to hydraulic fracturing
• Federal and Pennsylvania shale gas policy overview
• Science of shale gas extraction
• Shale Gas Monitoring: finding well permits, monitoring site selection, techniques and more

Science Communication

• Tailoring findings to a specific audience
• Citizen science and scientific education
• Social marketing for community buy-in

Non-Profit Skills

• The ALLARM student experience
• Campaign organizing and movement building
• Grant writing
• Volunteer recruitment and retention
• Meeting facilitation
• Fostering a productive workplace
• Strategic planning

Community Story Telling

• Community successes and protection efforts
• Past projects and outcomes
• Policy impacts
• Case studies of monitoring outcomes and data uses

If you are interested in collaborating, please email us or stop by our offices in Kaufman.

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