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High School Educational Monitoring Program
Participants: MERI, Riverkeeper, Inc, & Participating Schools The Water Quality Educational Monitoring Program is a hands-on watershed curriculum for high school students in the Hackensack River watershed that teaches about non-point source pollution, water chemistry, and ecology. After classroom and field training by Hackensack Riverkeeper, each participating class is issued a water quality monitoring kit which they use to test their local waterway(s) throughout the school year.
Among the water quality parameters that the students study are temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrates, phosphates, ammonia, pH, turbidity and copper. Through research, graphs and analytical thinking, students attempt to determine whether day-to-day changes and site-to-site changes in their measurements could be a result of natural phenomena, human contribution, or a combination both. With teacher supplements, this program satisfies several NJ Core Curriculum Standards, including
The Water QEM Program is a cooperative venture between Hackensack Riverkeeper (HRI), the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI) and the participating schools. Additional funds are supplied by the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and the NY/NJ Harbor Estuary Program. For additional information or to join the monitoring network, please contact:
River Dell Regional Senior HS Rutherford High School Bayonne PS #14 Bergen County Technical School Bergen County Academies Lyndhurst High School Hackensack High School
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