Algae Laboratory Workshops in San Marcos

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Hello Everyone, here is a message from Betty Fetscher, jim

Dear stream bioassessment community,
A pair of back-to-back workshops will be held at Cal State University, San Marcos in late October of this year on the diatom and soft-bodied algae laboratory processing and enumeration procedures used for stream bioassessment in California's SWAMP program. The all-day (9am-5pm) workshops will be taught by Prof. Patrick Kociolek of University of Colorado, Boulder (diatoms: Thursday 27 October) and Prof. Robert Sheath and Dr. Rosalina Stancheva of CSU San Marcos (soft-bodied algae: Friday 28 October). These workshops are geared toward helping build state capacity for taxonomic analysis of algae samples, with a focus on southern California taxa. They will be open to staff at the Regional Boards, the Water Board, and other agencies, consulting companies, and non-profit organizations of the state.
In each workshop, information will be presented on sample processing and specimen enumeration/quantification, as well as a brief introduction to the taxonomic analysis of algae samples for water quality monitoring. This will provide participants with some exposure to what is entailed in the laboratory procedures. (Note, however, that the goal of the workshops is not to turn participants into expert taxonomists, which would require a great deal more training.) Each workshop will include lecture-format presentations and some lab-based microscopy work.
Registration for both workshops is free, however space is limited, and registrants will be admitted on a first-come/first-served basis. Prospective participants must register through the State Water Board's Training Academy website at
http://www.trainingforce.com/5/lp/gowat ... 8&otid=381 and http://www.trainingforce.com/5/lp/gowat ... 8&otid=380 . In an effort to broaden participation across institutions as much as possible, only one participant from any given institution will be permitted to attend a given workshop, so please coordinate within your institutions to decide who is the most appropriate party to participate before registering. Also note that anyone interested in taking both workshops must register separately for each one. Attached are flyers for the two workshops. Please feel free to forward this message to other interested parties, and let me know if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Betty Fetscher

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A. Elizabeth Fetscher, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist - Biology Department
So. Cal. Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP)
3535 Harbor Blvd., Suite 110
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Phone: 714-755-3237; Fax: 714-755-3299
Email: bettyf@sccwrp.org
URL: http://www.sccwrp.org/view.php?id=219
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