Butler County Stream Team

2023 Sampling

Sampling occurs on the 2nd Saturday of each month from March through November. All samplers must attend a training in order for our data to be accepted by the Ohio EPA. 

 

2023 Training Breakfast - Save the Date

Saturday, February 25 from 9 am - 12 noon

At the Butler County Engineers Office, 1921 Fairgrove Ave, Hamilton, OH 45011. This is next to the Butler County Fairgrounds. 

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New Sites for 2023? We are currently looking at our sampling sites to see if we need to add a few more locations. 

Are you sampling in 2023? If you are a current sampler and wish to continue sampling in 2023, please let Lynn know If you have not sampled with us int he past, and are interested in becoming a monthly sampler, also contact Lynn.

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Lab Volunteers:  We use doodle to signup lab volunteers- just to make sure you don't drive to the lab needlessly.

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Lab Training Videos

Thanks to Zak Schultz, one of the 2020 awesome graduate students, we now have training videos for each of the lab stations. 

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Habitat Evaluation

cQHEI is a visual assessment of the creek habitat, looking at things like substrate, tree cover, and fallen logs.  Here is the form that is used for scoring cQHEI form

To become a habitat volunteer, please complete the following:

• Watch the Training video (37 minutes)

• Watch and score the two test videos (about 3 minutes each)  (Indian Creek and Rentschler)

• Then, contact Lynn and send her your score sheets for the two test videos