Benthic Macroinvertebrate Stream Monitoring - Video

Video and Photography by Nicole Hamilton

Members of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy (LWC), Meg Findley, David Ward and Otto Gutenson have collaborated to put on a series of five stream monitoring videos demonstrating the protocol that used. Each video is fairly short (about 2-3 minutes long).

The stream monitoring protocol protocol was developed by Virginia Save our Streams (www.vasos.org)

Meg provides an overview of the equipment used in stream monitoring.

Otto Gutenson and David Ward demonstrate how the stream sampling is done while Meg describes what they are doing and why.

Meg, Otto and David take a look at the creatures that were collected during the sampling and sort them into families.

Meg talks about the data that we collect and what we do with it.