PaSEC X-Team Volunteers Jack McGinley, Stacey Russell, Bill Apgar, Homer Foster and Leon Oberdick

To help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Pennsylvania Senior Environment Corps, PA Environment Digest recently went along on water sampling runs by two teams from the Capital Area Senior Environment Corps to let them show you how it’s all done.

And we also interviewed Homer Foster, the 99-year old volunteer who goes out every week to help do chemical and macroinvertebret samples along the Yellow Breeches in Cumberland County.

Video Blog: 99-Year Old Homer Foster Tells Why He Volunteers

Tag along with the PaSEC water sampling team known as the X-Team, lead by Bill Apgar, and including Homer Foster, Jack McGinley, Leon Oberdick and Stacy Russell, show how they hunt macroinvertebretes on another part of the Yellow Breeches.

Video Blog: X-Team Samples the Yellow Breeches

Video Blog: Jim Haney, Capital Area PaSEC, Presents a History of the Program

Go along as volunteers Art Sconing, Harvey Baney, Velda Kauffman and Carl Crone take their samples and then analyze them back at their lab in the New Cumberland Senior Center.

Video Blog: Water Quality Sampling on the Yellow Breeches

Video Blog: Counting Macroinvertebretes on the Yellow Breeches

Video Blog: Touring the Lab at the New Cumberland Senior Center

Video Blog: Volunteers Share Their Experiences

The Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement administers the PA Senior Environment Corps Program across the Commonwealth with local partners like RSVP.

Links: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the PA Senior Environment Corps

5/4/2007