Interns also will guide youngsters through various scientific demonstrations, and accompany them on field walks that are designed to increase environmental awareness. By the end of the summer, each youth group will have embarked on or completed a service project for their community. This program is funded through a generous grant from the Crystal Trust Foundation. The Inland Bays Citizen Monitoring Program is looking for people to collect data on air and water temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, water depth and clarity, nutrient concentrations, and bacteria levels at locations around the bays. Volunteers are needed particularly at sites on the ocean side of Rehoboth Bay, on the upper Indian River, on the south side of Indian River Bay, and along Little Assawoman Bay.
Training is provided for all volunteers.
As a volunteer, you will learn about the environment of the bays and have a good time as well. A quarterly newsletter, educational workshops, an annual picnic and other social events are some of the many benefits of participating in the Citizen Monitoring Program. The Delaware Nature Society has recently hired Susan Haynes to manage the Abbott's Mill Center near Milford. Susan is originally from Oregon and has a bachelor's degree in zoology and marine biology from the University of Rhode Island and later completed a masters degree in adult education specializing in the environmental field. Susan obtained a position with Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management where she first worked as a marine naturalist and then with the division of Groundwater and Freshwater Wetlands as a biological assistant.