Welcome to Alberta RiverWatch!

What's the best way to study a river?

The RiverWatch mission is to enable all Grade 9 science students in Calgary and Edmonton to participate in this national award winning science resource program.

What is the best way to study a river? We think it's by taking a river trip aboard large inflated rafts equipped as floating laboratories!

Alberta RiverWatch helps science classes to explore a 10 km section of their local river during a raft float trip. Along the way, students make shoreline stops to conduct water chemistry and biology tests. Back at school, the water quality data is used to answer the question, "How healthy is your river?"

This web site is designed to support river ecology studies undertaken by 5000 students each year across central and southern Alberta. The information collected and presented at this site is used in several Alberta secondary science courses:

Grade	Course	Unit
8	Science 8	Freshwater Ecosystems
9	Science 9	Environmental Chemistry
11	Biology 20	Ecosystems and the Biosphere
11	Science 20	Change in Living Systems
12	Science 30	Chemistry in the Environment

Click below to learn more about the award-winning Alberta RiverWatch Science Program!