Demonstrating the success of watershed management efforts is critical for securing future funding and public support. Yet most watershed groups find that the monitoring methods they are using cannot effectively show the impact of their project, and that demonstrating water quality improvement is prohibitively expensive or beyond their capacity.

Please join us at this one day conference, Wednesday December 3rd in Indianapolis, designed to share experiences where monitoring data have been used successfully to show change, apply what is learned to your own watershed, and to discuss the barriers that still exist.  IDEM Commissioner Tom Easterly will deliver a kick-off address, followed by keynote speakers Tom Davenport (USEPA), Charles Crawford (USGS) and Robert Gillespie (IUPU-FW).  The day will also include small group discussions focusing on issues specific to lakes, reservoirs and wetlands, large streams and rivers, and small streams.

Anyone interested in water monitoring in Indiana is invited to attend.  People actively engaged in monitoring are particularly encouraged to attend and will be given free conference registration if they complete a survey, prior to registering for the conference.  Registration information and a link to the survey are available at http://engineering.purdue.edu/~inwater/conference/.   For additional information, please contact Laura Esman at lesman@purdue.edu or 765-496-6331.