Goal: Collect data/samples to help monitor various indicators of water quality in the urban environment. These include macroinvertebrates in streams (aquatic insects), amphibians in ponds by counting egg masses, monitoring the downtown Olympia Purple Martin population, and most recently training to do shoreline surveys for forage fish
Projects:
- Amphibians (frogs and salamanders) Egg mass monitoring
- Purple Martins: Nest box monitoring
- Stream bug: (macroinvertebrates) monitoring
- Shorebird survey
- Identify and map invasive weeds
- Forage fish survey
Contact
Michelle Stevie
mstevie@ci.olympia.wa.us
360-753-8336
