Alabama Water Watch

Dr. Clara Clothiaux, the "E. coli Lady," Save Our Saugahatchee member, retired school teacher, and long-time dedicated AWW Volunteer Monitor has officially retired from water monitoring, during the week of her 85th birthday! We want to take a look back at Clara's...

4-H AWW Group of the Year: Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship The 4-H AWW-AUUF group was officially started in 2017 by Julie Meadows and co-leader Shawn Jacobsen who is a long-time friend of AWW. Its success is in part due to Julie and Shawn’s creative use of...

2018 Water Spirit Award: Eric Reutebuch This year we initiated a new and very special AWW Award: the Water Spirit Award. This award is intended to recognize and honor someone who exemplifies a spirit of involvement, enthusiasm, and concern for water resources in...

AWW Volunteer Trainer Hana Berres and Trainer Intern Dana Herren recently trained the Ruffner Mountain environmental programs staff in AWW Water Chemistry Monitoring. Let's take a look into their workshop! Ruffner Mountain is a 1,000+ acre nature preserve in...

Alabama Water Watch and the Auburn University Water Resources staff are pleased to announce that Mona Dominguez has stepped into the role of AWW Program Director. Mona has served as Volunteer Monitor Coordinator, 4-H AWW Program Coordinator, and is on the AWW and...

AWW Staff and other Auburn University colleagues held a reception to celebrate recently retired AWW Director, Eric Reutebuch, his significant career achievements and his 28 years of service with Auburn University. AWW Founder and former Director Dr. Bill Deutsch...

Sydney Smith officially began her role as AWW Volunteer Monitor Coordinator in July 2017. Her primary role is to provide support to our volunteer monitors and trainers. She accomplishes this by conducting and coordinating training workshops, processing water data,...

Whitney Henson first started monitoring with AWW in 2014 and became a dedicated citizen volunteer trainer just a year later. She has since graduated from Jacksonville State University with a Bachelors in Geography in 2015 and Masters in Emergency Management in 2017,...

Flo Peters and her husband Bill have monitored lots of water and influenced many, many others to do the same! Both have been recognized over the past several years for their outstanding efforts in watershed stewardship and environmental education.   Bill, along...

Stephen Tsikalas attended his first AWW workshops in 2014. He got certified as both a water chemistry and bacteriological monitor, then, in 2015, advanced to become an AWW trainer. He has integrated AWW water monitoring into his Geography curriculum at Jacksonville...

Christian Miller has been working in extension/outreach activities since 2004, first in Florida, and then in south Alabama. Christian joined the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium outreach team as an extension specialist in 2009. He works out of the Auburn...