Welcome to our first Virtual Field Day!
Thank you for joining us for our FIRST Virtual Field "Day"! Email [email protected] with questions or to register so you can receive the Question and Answer session link! We ask that you email any questions you have ahead of the Q&A session so we can more easily moderate the call.
Watersheds
Join Courtney Pruitt from Madison County SWCD to learn what watersheds are, which watersheds we belong to in Madison County, and how watersheds affect the health of our waterways. There are activities and extra resources linked below the video and will be mentioned throughout.
Video Length: 33:18
Video Length: 33:18
| madison_county_huc_14_basemap.pdf |
Below is a file that talks about the different best management practices in more detail. These cards go with a game from the Project WET book. If you are interested in this or other interactive lesson plans pertaining to water call the office for help!
| bmp_cards.pdf |
Soil Health
We join Andrew Faison, a District Conservationist with NRCS, to learn how soil health and water quality are related. He will provide some visual activities as well as information on what practices we see in agriculture that promote soil health and water quality.
Video Length: 14:08
Video Length: 14:08
Aquatic Wildlife
We will hear from Dr. Ippolito, a biology professor at Anderson University, about the overall health of our White River, the Guide Fish Kill, and the organisms living in our river. This is a great preface for the macroinvertebrate sampling video as he discusses their use as indicators for waterway health.
Video Length: 37:18
Video Length: 37:18
Macroinvertebrate Sampling
This video will be available by Thursday October 15th. We are awaiting permission from IDEM to share the video which could take a couple of days. Our apologies for the delay! In this video we will join Maddie Genco from IDEM to learn how they perform their macroinvertebrate samplings. We will be collecting organisms from Fall Creek in Indianapolis. This is an excellent chance to get close to the river while remaining dry!
Video Length: 18:23
Video Length: 18:23
Guide Fish Kill
Unfortunately technology was not our friend for this video. Several days after filming with all of the great people who had been involved during and after the event it was discovered our microphone had quit working. We are unable to get everyone back together for another filming session on such short notice but will have some people at the Question and Answer session to speak to. What is provided below are 10th and 20th anniversary articles about the fish kill as well as a video done with one major participant, John Bundy. Our apologies for not having more!
| river_in_recovery_complete.pdf |
| 10th_anniversary_complete.pdf |
| timeline.pdf |
20th anniversary Indy Star article: www.indystar.com/in-depth/news/environment/2019/12/19/guide-corp-s-toxic-discharge-killed-millions-fish-white-river/4385458002/?fbclid=IwAR1aMeHJmZmDpF_biDDaeQb7SAYoxQjip6NNsXUeE1aPi7L7Iyg9ZMQiu0U
So Fly video "Rise of the White River" :
Question and Answer Session
Follow the link below to join us for the Virtual Q&A session on Monday October 26th at 11 AM! If you have questions after watching the videos please email them to [email protected] before the Q&A session so she is able to moderate the flow of the virtual meeting. You will also be able to ask question in the chat box during the meeting! We hope to see you on Monday October 26th! Thank you!
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