You've helped us collect the 20,000^th water quality records in Earthwatch’s effort to improve the health of our rivers and lakes!

Over 10,000 enthusiastic volunteers and scientists measured more than 3,000 lakes, streams, ponds and wetlands gathering data to support local and regional partnerships between scientists, businesses, environmental agencies, decision makers, NGOs and citizens. 

The occasional Diaries of a Salt Spring Island Freshwater Catalogue, February 2018 to...

This is the occasional diary of the trial, tribulations and successes in developing a FreshWater (resource) Catalogue for Saltspring (or Salt Spring) Island, one of the most beautiful islands on the planet. Saltspring Island(SSI) is one of the Gulf (or Salish) Islands, located in British Columbia in the southwestern corner of Canada, in an area known as the Salish Sea.  The island has a northern mediterranean climate (read very wet winters and long dry summers) and, as a result, has seasonal water challenges.

The SSI FreshWater Catalogue (SSIFWC), a project under the auspices of the Water Preservation Society (WPS), the first month(s) and years...