Texas Stream Team: Meeting of the Monitors

Texas Stream Team is partnering with the Houston-Galveston Area Council to hold the 2011 Meeting of the Monitors from September 29th to October 1st at the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake. This 3-day event is designed to:

• encourage communication and networking between regulatory agencies, community members, volunteer monitors, and other stakeholders;
• provide opportunities for citizen monitors to expand their skill-sets as citizen scientists by participating in many hands-on workshops;
• recognize and reward citizen water quality monitoring efforts;
• and, provide educational and professional development opportunities

Registration
The price of registration includes lunch, beverages, and snacks.

• Free for citizen water quality monitors
• Family members accompanying citizen monitors: $10.00/day
• Thursday registration: Free
• Friday or Saturday registration: $30.00
• Three day registration: $50.00

Details
Click one of the options belows to learn more about the 2011 Meeting of the Monitors.

Houston-Galveston Area Council's Clean Waters Initiative
Presentations
Workshops/Trainings
Field Trips
Exhibition
Photo Competition

Schedule
Thursday, September 29th
1:00-5:00 Houston-Galveston Area Council's Clean Waters Initiative

Friday, September 30th
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Welcoming Remarks
9:15-12:00 Solutions for Urbanizing Areas
12:00-1:00 Lunch
12:15-12:45 The Importance of Volunteer Monitoring: H-GAC’s Texas Stream Team Program
1:00-4:00 Keeping Your Volunteer Monitors from Swimming Upstream
1:00-4:00 Now What Do I Do? – Effective Strategies in Stakeholder Facilitation & Conflict Resolution
4:00-6:00 Exhibition and Networking Session
5:30-8:30 Clear Lake Eco-Tour Boat Ride
6:00 Adjourn

Saturday, October 1st

7:00-8:45 Armand Bayou Nature Center Birding Field Trip
8:00-8:45 Breakfast and Registration
8:45-9:00 Welcoming Remarks
9:00-9:30 Texas Stream Team at 20 Years: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We’re Going
9:30-10:00 Surface Water Quality Monitoring in Texas
10:00-11:00 Texas Stream Team Quality Control Session
10:00-12:00 Something Fishy - a Fisheries Identification Workshop
10:00-12:00 Tidal Stream Macroinvertebrate Identification Workshop
10:00-12:00 Your Piece of the Puzzle: What Does Your Data Tell You?
11:00-12:00 Using the Enviroscape Watershed Model Workshop
12:00-2:00 Lunch and Volunteer Recognition Ceremony
2:00-5:00 Texas Stream Team Advanced Monitor Training
2:00-5:00 Texas Parks and Wildlife Mussel Watch Training
2:00-5:00 NOAA Phytoplankton Monitor Training
2:00-5:00 Texas Invasives Citizen Scientist Training
5:00 Adjourn

Location and Accommodation
The Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake provides a professional atmosphere for conducting the 2011 Meeting of the Monitors right on the shore of beautiful Clear Lake. Attendees will be given a discounted "state rate" for the conference. All of the rooms are built around floor to ceiling windows and all offer panoramic views of Clear Lake. In addition to excellent meeting spaces, the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake offers many amenities including sports facilities, pools, hot tubs, a fitness room, jet skiing, water skiing, and wireless internet throughout. Directions are available here.

Register for the event here