Bioassessment Training
We kicked off our spring bioassessment season with our annual training. We had 27 volunteers attend.
![Our Field Technician, Evan, demonstrates for volunteers how to collect macroinvertebrates using a net.](https://www.mbnep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-4-16_Bioassessment-013-1024x768.jpg)
![We trained volunteers in water quality monitoring to collect data such as temperature, pH and oxygen levels.](https://www.mbnep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-4-16_Bioassessment-038-768x1024.jpg)
![Monitoring Coordinator Karissa explains to volunteers how to collect habitat data such as water depth and creek bottom characteristics.](https://www.mbnep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-4-16_Bioassessment-057-1024x768.jpg)
![Look closely and you’ll see some of the wildlife we encountered on our survey](https://www.mbnep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/20160422_103042-576x1024.jpg)
Bioassessment Surveys
The field season is underway. Four of our eight surveys for the year have been completed with the assistance of 13 dedicated volunteers.
![The whole crew at work, collecting habitat measurements.](https://www.mbnep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/20160422_113546-1024x576.jpg)
![It’s a tight squeeze to gather habitat data on Chorro Creek at a site located downstream of the South Bay Boulevard bridge.](https://www.mbnep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/P4230158-1024x768.jpg)
![One of the fun things about bioassessment monitoring is getting to see far-flung parts of the watershed, like this stretch of upper Pennington Creek.](https://www.mbnep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/P4270142-1024x768.jpg)
![This month in the field we encountered beautiful flora such as this hummingbird sage.](https://www.mbnep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/P4140165-1024x768.jpg)
![And of course there’s always a lot of our nemesis, poison oak, to be found in the watershed!](https://www.mbnep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/P4140188-1024x768.jpg)
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