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Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) News

Julie Vastine

Executive Director of Dickinson College's ALLARM Named to National Water Quality Monitoring Council

Julie Vastine ’03 has been named to a nationwide body with broad reach in water-monitoring initiatives.

kate consroe ceste '09 alumni in action

A Dedication to Preservation

Former environmental science major Kate Consroe Ceste ’09 strives to preserve the environment for future generations working for the National Council for Science and the Environment.

Tom O'Donnell, an ALLARM volunteer, loves the great outdoors, and he's learning how to protect it.

Seeking a Smaller, Greener World

Tom O’Donnell ’19 puts learning into action through global research on glacial lakes, an internship in a wastewater treatment lab and local community service.

Designed by visiting artist Deirdre Murphy and painted by students, the 2018 Goodyear mural indicates bird population levels and migration patterns along the Conodoguinet Creek in Carlisle, Pa.

Dickinson College Students and Faculty Collaborate with Visiting Artist on New Mural Merging Science and Art

See time-lapse video and learn the story behind a mural painted by students studying art, biology and sustainability to present scientific data on local bird species and the Conodoguinet Creek.

Photo of Jacqueline Patterson speaking at a podium.

Director of NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program to Speak at Dickinson College

Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, Jacqueline Patterson, will discuss how environmental racism harms already disadvantaged populations.

Hayat Rasul '19

Science to the Rescue

Earth sciences and mathematics double major Hayat Rasul '19 uses science to "uplift communities in need."

Julie Vastine

ALLARM's Julie Vastine '03 Named to Board of Citizen Science Association

Julie Vastine ’03, director of Dickinson’s Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM), has been appointed to the board of the Citizen Science Association.

Rachel Krewson

Engineering a Sustainable Future

Rachel Krewson ’20 combines environmental science and physics to help develop an electronic-bike prototype and to teach others about how to measure and evaluate the health of waterways.

Photo of students testing water samples.

Conodoguinet Conservation

Dickinson’s Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring and the Cumberland County Conservation District are working with the community to gather data on the health of a nearby creek.

Brett Jenks, recipient of the 2017 Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism, works with students in Professor of Political Science Jim Hoefler's senior seminar. Photo by Carl Socolow '77.

Change Your Behavior, Change Your World

Brett Jenks of Rare discusses why climate change may be “all in our heads” during a residency that launches a revolutionary new educational center based on behavioral science.

Matt Steiman and Jenn Halpin receive award plaque

Award-Winning Conservation

Dickinson's College Farm has been honored for its natural resource conservation work.

caroline kanaskie

Oh, the Places She'll Go!

From Carlisle to Copenhagen, New England to Virginia, Caroline Kanaskie '17 happily goes out of her comfort zone.

overlooking a large lake

20,000 Lakes

Student-faculty research expedition explores climate change in Greenland.

Student working with Allarm

Tests of Time

ALLARM celebrates 30 years of citizen science.

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