AWW Tiger Giving Project, Protect Alabama Waterways, Mini-grant Program

WE ARE CURRENTLY RECEIVING APPLICATIONS FOR THE AWW TIGER GIVING PROJECT MINI-GRANT PROGRAM!!

2024 Application: https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_daIXmygs0Vctd4O

If you are a certified AWW monitor and need some help to get started monitoring at an orphaned site or a new site, in the form of a water chemistry test kit, water chemistry reagents to refill an existing kit, or bacteria supplies, this mini-grant program is for you!

Please note: Funding is limited and demands are high for monitoring supplies among our volunteers. Please, only request materials if you are serious about your plans to monitor.

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2024 World Water Day: Water for Peace

Gulf Coast State Park in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Photo Credit- Brianne Minton

The message for World Water Day 2024 is “Water for Peace.” Every year, World Water Day, coordinated by United Nations-Water, raises awareness and inspires action by providing information and tools individuals can use to help tackle the ever-growing global water and sanitation crisis.  

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Monitor Water Quality on Alabama’s National Forests this Spring!

A beautiful rocky creek bank in the Bankhead National Forest
A stream flowing through the Bankhead National Forest. Photo Credit: Sheila Holifield, USFS.

Since 2019, AWW has been working with the US Forest Service to build a network of citizen scientists to collect valuable water quality data from waterbodies in Alabama’s National Forests (NFALs). To date, volunteer monitors assisting with the project have submitted over 600 water data records from NFALs.

We are looking for our next cohort of volunteers who can continue the mission of this project and help expand it to new NFAL’s!

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Montgomery Water Monitoring Training Recap

By: Jera Dills

AWW Staffers Mona, Sergio, Sydney, and Jera kicked the new year off strong by completing the first training session of 2024 in early February! We were very excited to have a diverse gathering of Extension and 4-H Agents, college professors and students from Huntingdon College, Faulkner University, and Auburn University at Montgomery, members of the newly formed Friends of the Alabama River, Lake Jordan HOBOs, and many others who cohesively shared a goal to protect Alabama’s waterways through routine monitoring.

We had a great turnout for the training! Photo credit: Mona Dominguez
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Meet Our New Staff Member, Jera Dills!

Jera started with Alabama Water Watch and the AU Water Resources Center in February 2024 and will help with marketing and communications, event organizing, volunteer coordination, data processing, and more! She is a fantastic addition to AWW and the WRC as she is very enthusiastic about her work and brings a positive energy to everything she does!

We’d like to officially welcome Jera to the team and want you all to get to know her a little better through the Q&A below.

Jera visiting Panoramic Point in Sequoia National Park, California. Photo credit: Jera Dills
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2024-2025 School Year: 4-H AWW Opportunity for Teachers to Engage Students with Bacteriological Monitoring and Stewardship

2023 Educators take a photo after taking bacteria samples at the 4-H Center. Photo credit: Mona Dominguez
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