High School Education Program: River KATS: Kid Activism Together with Science

Bank of America has recently provided Inland Empire with a generous grant of $15,000 to help fund our 2008-2009 River KATS Program. This award will help us continue this valuable, free educational program for high school students in the Inland Empire. Our River KATS Program is designed to introduce high school students to watershed concepts with in-class presentations and field trips at NO cost to schools. To find out more, click here.

Secchi Disk Dip In At Prado Lakes

Inland Empire Waterkeeper was pleased to partner with the International Baccalaureate program at Raney Intermediate School in Corona to perform turbidity measurements with a real Secchi disk in our Waterkeeper canoe at Prado Park Lake! Each student also was able to take readings of ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, dissolved oxygen and temperature. All results will be sent to the Dip-In database run by Kent State in Ohio. This event was made possible through a generous donation from Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. See photos and sampling results from the event, held July 10, 2008.

Snapshot Day

In honor of Water Awareness Month, citizen water monitors located all over the country take samples of local creeks each May and compare results from previous years to “snapshot” the water quality. In May of 2006, Inland Empire Waterkeeper facilitated a Snapshot Day event where 16 sites were sampled. We repeated many of those same sites this year on May 10, 2008 with the help of two groups of high school students from La Sierra High School (LSHS Alvord
Unified School District) and King High School (KHS Riverside Unified School District). Click here to read the entire report and results.

For more information about our educational programs, please contact Programs Director Autumn DeWoody at (951) 689-6842.