IVCC Rivers Project workshop set for Feb. 21
The IV Chem Club and science faculty are again hosting the Rivers Project Workshop on campus Feb. 21.
Chem club advisor Bob Byrne said faculty and students are invited to attend and participate, free of charge. The workshop is designed to benefit science teachers and their eighth grade or high school students by training them to work with water testing equipment.
Events are also scheduled "to emphasize how precious our water is and the need for good water quality," Byrne said.
The day-long program will include a number of lab workshops; sessions on chemistry and
biology, river poetry and watershed exploration; and presentations on river art and Environmental Protection Agency enforcement.
In the morning, three concurrent sessions are scheduled: Byrne and life science instructor Tim Horger present a chemistry, biology session; English instructor Brian Campbell offers a session on river poetry; and geology instructor Mike Phillips presents a session on watershed exploration.
Just before lunch, art instructor Dana Collins presents "Art of the Upper Mississippi River."
The afternoon highlights are station rotation-lab workshops on flow rate, maps, geology; fecal coliform; macro invertebrates; nitrates; phosphates; PH testing; and dissolved oxygen.
At 7 p.m. Arnold Leder of the U.S. EPA Enforcement Division, will speak in D-225.
Registration is limited to 100 people. Registrations are due to Byrne (224-0432 or Byrne @ivcc.edu) by Feb. 7.