{"id":5985,"date":"2015-10-01T18:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.auburn.edu\/aww\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2021-02-16T22:28:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T22:28:40","slug":"aww-and-wolf-bay-watershed-watch-showcased-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/aww-and-wolf-bay-watershed-watch-showcased-nationally\/","title":{"rendered":"AWW and Wolf Bay Watershed Watch Showcased Nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Water Watch and Wolf Bay Watershed Watch (WBWW) were showcased in the Ecological Society of America\u2019s publication <em>Issues in Ecology &#8211; Investing in Citizen Science Can Improve Natural Resource Management and Environmental Protection<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1486\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/adem20070319.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1486\" class=\"wp-image-1486 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/adem20070319.jpg\" alt=\"Wolf Bay Watershed Watch with ADEM Chief of the Water Quality Branch,   Lynn Sisk and ARA Executive Director,   Cindy Lowery celebrating OAW status for Wolf Bay (April 2007).\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wolf Bay Watershed Watch members with ADEM Chief of the Water Quality<br \/> Branch,   Lynn Sisk (on right) and ARA Executive Director, Cindy Lowery (kneeling, on left) celebrating OAW status for Wolf Bay (April 2007).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Environmental stewardship efforts of WBWW, backstopped by the AWW Program in the Auburn University Water Resources Center,\u00a0were featured as an ideal example of citizen science involving the public in watershed-level water quality monitoring to achieve conservation goals \u2013 in this case, the successful push in collaboration with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management for upgrading the bay to <em>Outstanding Alabama Waters <\/em>(OAW).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1482\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.org\/esa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Issue19.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1482\" class=\"wp-image-1482 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/Issue19_Page_01-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click here for the full story<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Water Watch and Wolf Bay Watershed Watch (WBWW) were showcased in the Ecological Society of America\u2019s publication Issues in Ecology &#8211; Investing in Citizen Science Can Improve Natural Resource [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985","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=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7660,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions\/7660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}