Summer 2024!

With a great spring season come and gone, summer Community Science is underway and fall events are taking shape.

☀️HAPPY SUMMER!☀️ We hope you’re weathering this heatwave as well as you can… Spring Recap This spring saw us mobilizing area youth in watershed-monitoring efforts from the Wallowa River and Catherine Creek to Morgan Lake and the Umatilla River! Check out our Spring 2024 video below. Summer Plans There’s much underway this summer! Data Entry + Grant Writing We're be busy entering data from spring into the University of Idaho – IDAH2O system we contribute to, plus doing plenty of grant reporting and writing to continue and expand support for our monitoring, education, and stewardship mission. Summertime Fieldwork! * Our partners at the Training and Employment Consortium (TEC) Youth Crew are monitoring sites on National Forest acreage, and we’ve got upcoming events with the Union Carnegie Library and Saqáanma School at the Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland, among other partners.  * Not all of our Community Science Project fieldwork this summer is water-based: With help from the TEC Crew, we’re assisting the Greater Hells Canyon Council with bumble bee surveys for the Pacific Northwest Bumblebee Atlas, a fantastic collaboration between the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and several state fish-and-wildlife departments.   Professional Development Community Science Coordinator, Carrie Caselton Lowe, is among the yearlong Oregon cohort for Learning in Places, an innovative new approach to equitable, culturally conscientious field-based science education, and will be attending a three-day retreat for that project in August. Fall Scheduling & Events Hard to imagine in the thick of summer heat, but fall will be here before you know it, and with it lots of opportunities to connect school groups and classes with the Community Science Project!   Partners, Please be on the lookout for emails from us re: fall scheduling. And if you’re interested in becoming a partner with us, don’t hesitate to reach out!    National Public Lands Day: Mark your calendars for National Public Lands Day on Saturday, September 28th! This is an awesome annual event that gives anyone who appreciates our precious public lands the chance to give back to them via some good old-fashioned, roll-up-your-sleeves volunteering. We’ll be observing the occasion at Ladd Marsh as part of a collaborative Grande Ronde Public Lands Day, and hope you can join us! More info and register here. Partner Spotlight! Ethan Shaw monitors snowfields in the Wallowas in early Summer 2024. Ethan Shaw is an independent researcher and outdoors/science writer in Cove who’s been contracting with the Community Science Project this year - doing a variety of things like instructing, writing, and connecting the Project to new partners. An ambassador for the Community Snow Observations project and a partner with the Oregon Glaciers Institute, he launched the Wallowa-Blue Mountain Snowfield Project, which surveys seasonal and perennial snowpatches in our regional high country, and will be giving a talk on the subject. See details below. Cook Memorial Library’s Summer Speaker Series presents: Ethan Shaw from the Wallowa-Blue Mountain Snowfield Project July 17th at 6 PM. Thank you Ethan for all you do! Questions? Comments? Ideas? Reach out anytime! email: [email protected] www.granderondecommunityscience.org Thank You to our AWESOME Partners!  All rights reserved. Email [email protected] for more information. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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