Learn How to Monitor

How can you tell if a river is healthy?

You'll need to study the section "How to Monitor" before going on a RiverWatch Field Trip. Monitoring is exactly what you'll be doing during your field trip.

What is "Monitoring"?

Monitoring is much like "keeping an eye" on someone's health.

• When someone is ill, a nurse monitors the patient's vital signs such as breathing rate, pulse rate and temperature.



• When you monitor environmental health, what are the vital signs you look for?

Your Goal

Your goal is to learn as much background information as you can before spending a day on the river. Make sure you know why and how to collect measurements that monitor the environmental health of rivers!

Learn how to monitor!

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