Penn State’s Department of Metrology is offering a series of workshops in May designed to introduce a new web-based tool for assessing stream health and potential impacts from runoff.

The new Stream Health and Runoff Potential tool is designed to do several things: (1) to estimate stream health, such as yearly nutrient yields, for any user-selected stream basin or watershed in Pennsylvania, or the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and (2) to estimate peak and total volume of storm water runoff for a chosen stream or watershed in Pennsylvania and a design storm.

The workshops are sponsored by the Penn State Cooperative Extension Service, Department of Environmental Protection through its Watershed Academy, Alliance for Chesapeake Bay, the Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment (CARA) and the Penn State School of Earth and Mineral Sciences and Department of Meteorology.

Workshop dates are set for May 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16 and 17.

For more information contact Professor Toby N. Carlson at 814-865-1582, by e-mail to tnc@essc.psu.edu or by fax 814-865-3663. You will be sent more detailed information on the program, including materials you will need to bring.

You can also register for the workshop online.

1/28/2005