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| Project Name: | School-based Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Project in the Ala Wai Canal Watershed |
| ASO Log No.: | 96-400 |
| Start/End Date: | ? to 1996 |
| Federal Funds: | $44,990.00 |
| Matching Funds: | $28,725.00 |
| Contractor: | Tom Speitel Curriculum Research and Development Group University of Hawaii at Manoa 1776 University Ave Honolulu, HI 96822 Barry Brennan |
| Background/ Overview: |
Teachers and students view their local environments each day, noting the obvious changes associated with droughts, storms, and human activities. Some of these events result in environmental pollution that is immediately obvious. Other events, such as chemical runoff and microbial contamination, are less obvious. |
| Objectives/Goals: | To give teachers the background needed to understand how naturally occurring and man-made events affect the ecology of the Ala Wai Watershed, and to encourage teachers and their students to use this knowledge to develop and test their own hypotheses about the environment. |
| Methods Employed: | • Conduct workshops and field trips for teachers to learn
how to collect data to establish baselines to assess the importance
of management techniques • Develop an Internet site to enter and analyze data into a centralized database |
| Pollutants of Concern: | Not described in report |
| Watershed: | Ala Wai Watershed, island of Oahu |
| Size of Project: | Not described in report |
| Affected Water Bodies: | Not applicable to project |
| Deliverables: | • Interactive web site http://www.hawaii.edu/environment/AlaWai.html • Ala Wai Watershed CD ROM |
