Greetings, fellow water monitors. It’s that time of year again! Let’s get together (virtually) and coordinate stream monitoring efforts for 2023.

Many agencies, consultants, and watershed organizations monitor streams throughout Maryland. The Maryland Water Monitoring Council has organized an (almost) annual Maryland Streams Roundtable to foster collaboration and cooperation among these many and varied groups. This gathering will provide an excellent opportunity to learn where monitoring is being done and what’s being sampled.

The Roundtable is intended for professionals, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions monitoring streams throughout the state of Maryland. It is not a forum for general discussions of stream-related topics or to drum up interest in your group. With that in mind, we would like to invite you to attend the Maryland Water Monitoring Council’s 15th Stream Monitoring Roundtable on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. This is an opportunity for you and your group to tell your colleagues what and where you will be monitoring in Maryland’s streams in 2023.

The Roundtable will be held virtually from 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. A link will be sent to attendees a few days prior to the Roundtable. If capacity is reached, preference will be given to those people giving presentations on their monitoring locations. Registration for the Roundtable is free, but please RSVP to Andy Becker (andy.becker@kci.com, 410-891-1767) before close of business Friday, March 3, 2023 and indicate whom from your organization will give a presentation. Active participation from all groups in attendance is vital to the success of the Roundtable.

Each presenter will give a 10-minute Powerpoint presentation that includes an overview of study design, parameters sampled, and the types and locations of stream monitoring activities planned for 2023. There will also be plenty of time for discussion and questions. If you would like your sites added to a map (public and internet accessible) of all 2023 sampling locations across the state, fill out the data template (Excel) available for download with the required information (e.g. site ID, coordinates, monitoring type, and contact information) for each site and email the completed spreadsheet to Andy Becker at KCI Technologies (see above). Please send Andy your map-able data no later than close of business on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Click here to view last year’s Roundtable Map.

We will collect all this information and display these data on one large map so that attendees can locate areas of overlap and identify potential opportunities for collaboration.

A detailed agenda for the entire day will be sent to all registrants prior to the Roundtable.

Feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues whom we may have missed.

Thanks and we look forward to seeing you on March 15.