Outreach Activities
LOCAL WATERSHED ORGANIZATIONS
- Maintain Lamprey River Watershed Outreach collaboration with several organizations to foster outreach in the Lamprey River watershed.
- Maintain correspondence with the Lamprey River Advisory Committee (LRAC) and the Lamprey River Watershed Association (LRWA) on current Lamprey River research. Associate Director serves as Newmarket's representative on the Lamprey River Advisory Committee.
- Maintain correspondence with the Oyster River Watershed Association (ORWA) and periodically provide assessments of Oyster River volunteer monitoring data.
- Collaborate with the Green Mountain Conservation Group (GMCG) and provide periodic assessments of Ossippee River volunteer monitoring data. The NH WRRC Director and the Associate Director serve on the GMCG research committee.
- The NH WRRC Director and the Associate Director serve on the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership Technical Advisory Committee.
- Interact with the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission.
FEDERAL & STATE AGENCIES
- Collaborate with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NH DES), the New Hampshire Geological Survey (NHGS), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to install and monitor additional stream gauges wells and sensors in the Lamprey River watershed.
- Collaborate with the USGS National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program to provide insights and data from Lamprey River research.
- Share Lamprey, Oyster and Ossippee stream sampling data with the NH DES Volunteer River Assessment Program (VRAP) and the NH DES Environmental Monitoring Database.
- Provide technical assistance to NH DES Watershed Managment Bureau as requested.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ORGANIZATIONS
- The NH WRRC Director and the Associate Director serve on the Ecosystem Task Force.
LOCAL HOMEOWNERS AND SCHOOL GROUPS
- Homeowners and 5th graders from H. W. Moore Elementary School serve as volunteers to collect precipitation data throughout the Lamprey watershed; October 2003 until present.