This project strives to develop collaborations among high schools, volunteer groups that monitor water quality, local officials, state Coastal Zone Management programs, and National Estuarine Research Reserves to solve non-point source pollution problems in estuaries and their watersheds. Water quality data collected by Estuary-Net participants are sent to a homepage on the Internet. Students are encouraged to explore data collected in other watersheds in their state and throughout the country. In this project, students monitor animals that have been killed by motor vehicles along the road. Special attention is paid to environmental conditions that may have contributed to an animal's death.
Students monitor roads that they travel to and from school.
The purpose of this project is to give students an understanding of the natural world around them. Roadways have divided natural corridors for many species of wildlife, and roadkill statistics are evidence of this phenomenon. The journeys of a dozen migratory species are tracked each spring through this collaborative project. Students share their own field observations with classrooms across the hemisphere. In addition, students are linked with scientists who provide their expertise directly to the classroom.