• "Student help fill in the big picture on stream health" Oregonian article. (Nov 15, 2006).

  Article appearing in the Metro section of the Oregonian.  Discusses the program from the perspective of Westview High School students involved in fall data collection.
  

• The Clackamas River Basin Council Stevens River-Watch Award. (2005).

  The River-Watch Award is the Clackamas River Basin Council's way of recognizing efforts that have been made in the last year to achieve a healthy watershed.
  

• "Advantages of Student Versus Agency Monitoring"
  Presented by Torrey Lindbo at the 6th National Volunteer Monitoring Conference, April 2000 in Austin, TX

  Abstract for presentation published in Proceedings (EPA 841-R-01-001). Presentation was given in a session on Student Volunteers Taking Action.

• Ideas That Work: Science Professional Development. (1998). Columbus, OH: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse

The U.S. Department of Education funds the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) to collect teaching materials for K-12 math and science educators and disseminate information about quality programs to teachers.  The ENC recognized and featured SWRP and our web site in their winter 2002 newsletter entitled By Your Own Design: A Teacher's Professional Learning Guide (Volume 9, Number 1, 2002).

• Tualatin Riverkeepers' First Annual Green Heron Awards, May 22, 1999
  Youth/School Group Award

The Green Heron Awards are the Tualatin Riverkeepers' way of recognizing efforts that have been made in the last year to achieve a healthy watershed. Winners of these awards have made exceptional contributions in the past year to protect or restore the Tualatin River, its tributaries and/or the watershed as a whole. SWRP was awarded the Green Heron Award in the youth/school group category for its commitment towards educating students in monitoring water quality and biological integrity of local streams. By partnering with universities and government agencies, SWRP has elevated the quality of data collected by students beyond that of a typical science class, with the goal of making data useful for watershed decision making. The project started in the Tualatin Basin and continues to grow there and elsewhere in Oregon. SWRP builds skills that are highly valued in the Science Inquiry Standards of the Oregon Department of Education. More importantly, it builds knowledgeable citizens and enthusiastic advocates for the future health of local aquatic ecosystems.

• What Works in the Middle: Results-Based Staff Development for the Middle Grades
  By Joellen Killion

The Student Watershed Research Project is one of just 26 educational programs selected from a pool of 500 nationwide for a new book that highlights successful efforts to enhance education in the middle grades. "Each of these programs has the potential to improve not only teachers' content knowledge but also the content-specific pedagogical process and student achievement," said Joellen Killion, project director for "What works in the Middle: Results-Based Staff Development," published by the National Staff Development Council. Other sources of information on this project include Top-notch programs for middle schools, by Joan Richardson, published in April 1999 issue of "Results"; and Ideas That Work Science Professional Development, published by Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education.

• Urban Ecosystems (journal), October/November 1998
  The Student Watershed Research Project (SWRP): Collecting Watershed Data for Use by Resource Management Agencies
  By Deborah J. Lev, Stacy L. Renfro, D. Torrey Lindbo, Wes Jarrell, Jane Blair, Steve Andrews and Lin Howell

Urban Ecosystems is an international journal devoted to scientific investigations of the ecology of urban environments and related policy implications. The article was first presented by the original program directors to "Urban Ecosystems" at a conference discussing the original goals of the Student Watershed Research Project. The article discussed if the program impacted any changes in educational attitudes of teachers and students and in the collection of accurate data by program participants. The current article juxtaposes those goals and processes that were established by the project's founders against the project's subsequent success and evolution. The article provides an in-depth examination that could be a great resource for groups interested in starting their own volunteer-staffed monitoring programs.

• "Providing Natural Resources Managers with High Quality, Student-Collected Watershed Health Data"
  Presented by Stacy Renfro, Wes Jarrell and Torrey Lindbo at the American Geophysical Union 1998 Spring meeting

Abstract for a presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1998 Spring meeting. Presentation was in the category Merging K-12, Environmental Education and Volunteer Monitoring. The AGU purpose is advancing progress in the earth, atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic and space and planetary sciences.

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