{"id":5979,"date":"2010-08-09T00:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T00:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.auburn.edu\/aww\/?p=100"},"modified":"2023-06-27T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:59:32","slug":"alabama-water-watch-cited-by-au-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/alabama-water-watch-cited-by-au-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Water Watch Cited by AU President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Water Watch (AWW) was recently cited by AU  President,   Jay Gogue,   Ph.D., in a letter to AU alumni (<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aualum.org\/enews\/gulf_coast.html\">click here for letter<\/a><\/u>).  The letter expressed the concerns of the Auburn Family over the Gulf oil spill,  and AU&rsquo;s involvement in mediating the environmental disaster.<\/p>\n<p>AWW&rsquo;s involvement in the Gulf dates back to the early 1990&rsquo;s  when the statewide program began training citizen volunteers to monitor water  quality. Coastal groups eagerly embraced the opportunity to become  AWW-certified water monitors, and to employ the EPA-approved testing methods in  monitoring their estuaries, bays and bayous. To date, coastal water monitoring  groups have contributed over 20,000 water quality records (15,540 water  chemistry records, 5,278 bacteria records, and 55 bioassessment records through  July 2010) to the AWW statewide database, and are actively monitoring 119  sites. <\/p>\n<p>AWW volunteer monitors often do much more than water  testing. During AWW training workshops, they learn about the watershed concept,  water quality, various pollutants that foul surface waters, how to test water  quality, and ways to put their water data to work. Many go beyond testing, into  watershed preservation, restoration and advocacy. Several, like Ann Crawford of  the Wolf Bay Watershed Watch, are currently taking an active role as volunteer  observers, checking coastal marshes, bays and wetlands for signs of oil  pollution (read more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/live\/2010\/07\/volunteers_check_for_oil_signs.html\">AL.com blog<\/a>, and at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auburn.edu\/research\/oilspillblog\/wolf-bay-watershed-watch-citizen-watchdog-group-responds-to-the-crisis\/\">AU Oil Spill blog<\/a>). This spirit of volunteerism and stewardship of people across Alabama is the heart and  soul of Alabama Water Watch! <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Water Watch (AWW) was recently cited by AU President, Jay Gogue, Ph.D., in a letter to AU alumni (click here for letter). The letter expressed the concerns of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7760,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/7760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}