SNAPSHOT DAY EVENT

 

Our 9th Annual Snapshot Day event happened on Saturday, May 3rd, 2008! We would like to give a big THANK YOU to all our volunteers for making it an exciting and successful day! We had approximately 184 volunteers from Bolinas in Marin County down to Morro Bay in San Luis Obispo County. We were able to monitor approximately 160 sites from 123 water bodies including streams, creeks, storm drains and sloughs! We will be working hard over the next few months to gather our results and analyze the data our volunteers collected! Meanwhile feel free to browse last year’s report online on our Library page.

We greatly appreciate the hard work our volunteers have put in to make events like Snapshot Day possible. Because of this commitment we are able to have ongoing records to help track the health of streams in our watersheds! Thanks again to all our volunteers who have a positive impact on the environment and within our community!

Program Description:

Spanning more than 300 miles of coast from Pacifica in the north to Morro Bay in the south, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary receives flows from over 100 freshwater streams and rivers.

This community event provides a one-day "Snapshot" of the health of the rivers and streams that flow into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. We accomplish this goal in partnership with the Sanctuary and hundreds of community volunteers who systematically sample the stream water on Event Day.

Volunteers are trained to monitor temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, and conductivity in the field and collect water samples for laboratory analysis of nutrients and bacteria levels.

The volunteers collecting this valuable information play a key role in our community as stewards of our watersheds. The information they provide is used by resource agencies, local governments and community groups to protect and improve the health of our local streams.