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Screen to Stream - helping student citizen scientists
explore local watersheds online & outdoors
Pete Smyntek, Beth Bollin...

Pete Smyntek – Assistant Professor
@ Saint Vincent College
Environmental chemist  water quality,
aquatic ecosystems & env...

Overview
• Background: issues affecting stream health
• The challenge: knowledge, tools & people
• Our approach: online & ...

Legacy Problem: AMD
• Acid mine drainage (AMD) – low pH & high toxic metal
concentrations (ex. Aluminum)
• Widespread, chr...

Current Problems: Nutrients, Sediment,
Pathogens
• Municipal wastewater, sewer overflows: nutrients, pathogens &
organic c...

Challenge: Knowledge  stream health & function
 recognize problems
Make observations & collect data

Challenge: Knowledge  recognize the problem
What’s wrong in this stream?

Challenge: Knowledge  recognize the problem
What’s wrong in this stream?
Aluminum  precipitation visible

Challenge: Tools  funds needed

Challenge: People (volunteers/citizen scientists)
“After years of success
in cleaning up the Kiski
and Conemaugh rivers
an...

Our Approach
• Provide online & field resources for teachers & students
• Flexible lesson options linked to PA educational...

Environmental
Education Grant
Collaboration with partners:
Loyalhanna Watershed Association,
Conemaugh Valley Conservancy,...

Tools/equipment provided:
• Leaf Pack Stream Ecology Lab
Activity
• Dissolved oxygen meter
• pH/Temp/Conductivity/Total
Di...

Training & support:
• Teaching development materials
• Grade specific lessons & activities
tied to PA Educational Curricul...

Curriculum Materials  Linked to PA Education Standards
Model My Watershed
https://app.wikiwatershed.org/

How does a passive wetlands treatment system work?

Monastery Run Improvement Project – Passive Wetlands
System at Saint Vincent College

Stream Game - http://cis2.stvincent.edu/kaydas/SP-4-2018/watershed-game.html

Stream Game - http://cis2.stvincent.edu/kaydas/SP-4-2018/watershed-game.html

Summary
- Need to address stream health issues: AMD, nutrients, etc.
- Challenges: Knowledge, Tools, People
- Approach: on...

Questions/request for feedback
- How can this type of program be sustained?
- Your experience: what’s worked well/not so w...

Acknowledgements
Saint Vincent College Faculty: Cindy Walter, Steve
Jodis, Jean Keene
Saint Vincent College Students: Ashl...

Screen to Stream is a new PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)-funded
environmental education initiative by Sai...

Challenge: Knowledge  recognize the problem
But resources — that is,
volunteers and money
— responsible for
turning the o...

Screen to Stream - helping student citizen scientists
explore local watersheds online & outdoors
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Pete Smyntek, Beth Boll...

Screen to Stream - helping student citizen scientists
explore local watersheds online & outdoors
Pete Smyntek, Beth Bollin...

Peter Smyntek, et al, St. Vincent College - “Screen to Stream – Student citizen scientists explore local watersheds online...

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