tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506180330949346482024-03-19T00:26:00.729-07:00QV CreekersQV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-65843506166198099362016-01-20T07:50:00.000-08:002016-01-20T07:51:36.328-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On Jan 14th 2016, the QV Creekers were visited by Anna Wendt (Postdoctoral scientist from the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State). She spoke to them about Marcellus shale extraction and her work with high school students near Penn State to sample for methane in their watershed. She will be running some samples for us and will be helping my creekers to collect the first baseline methane readings in Little Sewickley Creek that I know of....exciting!</span></span></div>
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QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-57097905912339497162015-10-12T14:06:00.002-07:002015-10-12T14:14:51.476-07:00QV Creekers are Back for 2015-2016 School Year! <h2 style="text-align: center;">
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students are selected from a pool of interested high school applicants ranging
from 9<sup>th</sup> - 12 grades to participate.
Approximately 60 students have completed the program since 2009. The QV Creekers would like to thank the
Little Sewickley Creek Watershed Association, Quaker Valley High School and the
Creek Connections program at Allegheny College for actively sponsoring this
worthwhile experience for our local young people. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We had out first meeting for this year on October 5th 2015! We spent the day examining changes in fish diversity upstream of the Woodland dam site. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Local Fish Species Begin to Move”- On October 5</span><sup style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
2015, the QV Creekers once again joined forces with Eric Chapman (Director of
Aquatic Science at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy) to investigate whether
any fish species had begun to move upstream as a result of the Woodland dam
removal which occurred on July 31</span><sup style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">st</sup><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 2015. There has only been approximately 3-4 rain
events since the actual dam removal so we weren’t expecting to see an enormous
change in fish diversity but we were happy to see at least several species did start
to migrate upstream of where they were trapped below the dam in years
past. The group sampled in Walker Park
approximately 0.5 miles and 1.0 miles upstream of the dam removal site. Several species of fish including the Rainbow
darter, Smallmouth bass, Central stoneroller and one species of Shiner (yet to
be positively identified) were found in small numbers (<10) at least one or
both of the upstream study sites during the survey. Several small Brown trout fingerlings (less
than 80mm in length) were also discovered at the second site which suggests
that the Brown trout are still successfully reproducing in Little Sewickley
Creek. QV Creekers hope to do more fish
surveys in late spring/early summer in 2016 to investigate further evidence of
fish diversity changes throughout the watershed post-dam removal.</span></div>
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QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-19763722257835957972014-12-16T10:25:00.003-08:002014-12-16T10:27:21.772-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Thank you to Dr Catie Hanna (Robert Morris University Bio Dept.) for sponsoring the QV Creeker's meeting on December 8th 2014. Creekers visited RMU labs and dissected 2 turkey crops to search for evidence of salamander predation. No salam</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">anders were found but we did discover 2 species of land snails. Check out the pics. QV Creekers will be on break until after the New Year ! We also ran some microbiology tests on our 5 sites along the watershed.</span></span></div>
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QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-28908644547053209492014-10-21T11:00:00.001-07:002014-10-21T11:01:23.521-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Saving the Sallies! </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent">On Monday October 20th 2014, QV Creekers and volunteers from the
LSC waterhed Assoc. continued to build a new fence around the sewage
tanks in Belll Acres to protect the Jefferson salamanders, Wood Frogs and Spotted Salamander Populations from falling in! This wall will be stronger than our aluminum
flashing that we have used in the past and is made of wood! We will continue to monitor the salamander populations this coming spring! We would like to thank the Sewickley Academy Creek Club for their help on this project as well as Amy Miller from Allegheny County Conservation District and Laura Branby from Creek Connections.</span></div>
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QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-61569387847373056602014-10-13T12:48:00.000-07:002014-10-13T12:53:14.621-07:00QV Creekers are Back for 2014 - 2015!<div style="text-align: center;">
QV Creekers have returned for the 2014 - 2015 school year! This is our 6th year! Thank you to the Little Sewickley Creek Watershed Association in Sewickley PA and Creek Connections out of Allegheny College in Meadville, PA for sponsoring our group! </div>
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We started the year with our annual training at Walker Park on October 7th 2014. We will keep you posted on upcoming projects and data collection in our watershed.</div>
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Tie Dye T Shirt Time! Getting Ready for the Creek Connections Conference on April 4th 2014! </h2>
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We will be sharing our projects about the undamming of Little Sewickley Creek and the Saw Whet Owl Project with students from all over the western Pennsylvania!</h3>
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QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-40363630705627939132014-02-13T07:14:00.002-08:002014-02-13T07:14:48.282-08:00QV Creekers are back for 2013/2014 and are working on a lot different projects this year. Including a new project helping Bob Mulvihill from the National Aviary to collect some data on Saw Whet Owls in our area! We weren't sure if they were migrating through our area...but sure enough we caught some this fall! <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">QV Creekers were asked to help clean up a local stream that was used as a dump site for years! Creekers hulled out trash, tires and various large articles such as washers, barrels etc... that were sent off to the scrap yard!</span>QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-75216067420269417082013-04-22T10:24:00.001-07:002013-04-22T10:25:37.671-07:00Creek Connections Conference at Camp Kon-o-kwee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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QV Creekers had a great time at the Creek Connections symposium at Camp Kon-o-kwee on April 19th 2013! Creekers opened the conference with their documentary about the Jefferson Salamanders Project in Bell Acres! Later the creekers ran their own focus group activity to educate the younger audience at the conference about PA mammals found in and around our PA watersheds! We finished the day with a trip to the high ropes course and climbing barn at Camp Kon-o-kwee! What a great day!QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-13101153603906575392013-03-19T09:49:00.004-07:002013-03-19T09:49:50.903-07:00QV Creekers Meet Jefferson Salmanders!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hanna from Robert Morris University to weigh, measure and check for
marks on 72 Jefferson salamanders. This is part of a study to monitor
the salamander population after their mating ponds were disturbed in
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<b><span class="userContent"></span></b>QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-24591702153815458822013-02-27T09:36:00.001-08:002013-02-27T09:36:37.076-08:00QV Creekers Get Ready For Creek Connections Symposium!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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QV Creekers will be preparing an educational game for the Creek Connections symposium in April 2013. The game involves the life cycle of various freshwater mussels and their dependence on certain "host fishes" to disperse their young.QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-36185950834337480612013-01-17T10:55:00.001-08:002013-01-17T10:55:57.408-08:00and the Filming Continues!!!!!!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Jan 15th 2013 - The QV Creekers with amazing filmmaker Peter Heres at Fern Hollow Nature Center. We began to piece together the opening of the documentary on the "Salamanders of Bell Acres." The group filmed various scenes and recorded numerous "voice overs" which are audio clips to accompany still shots and footage that were selected earlier.QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-69495673313267525702012-12-06T06:43:00.000-08:002012-12-06T06:43:08.947-08:00Let the Filming Begin!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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QV Creekers are now working on a short documentary about the Jefferson Salamander Habitat Restoration Project in Bell Acres Borough! They hope to have it ready for the Spring Creek Connections Conference at Camp Kon-O-kwee.QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-25699904463367545092012-12-06T06:36:00.005-08:002012-12-06T06:39:33.426-08:00QV Creekers Visit Sewickley Academy!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="userContent">Kudos to Logan, Laura and Stephen who visited
Sewickley Academy's Creek Club group on December 5th 2012 to talk about some of the past
projects that the QV Creekers have been working on! QV Creekers will be working with SA's new Creek Club on various projects throughout the year.<span id="goog_2059714437"></span><span id="goog_2059714438"></span></span>QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-68536530384157780952012-11-06T07:31:00.002-08:002012-11-06T07:44:44.071-08:00QV Creekers are Back for 2012-2013!<h2 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The QV Creekers have been a busy group since our training in October 2012! We have 6 new members this year! Here are some things we have been up to since the start of the school year!</span></h2>
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</span>We conducted some team building activities which helped the new students
to get to know one another better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Experienced
creekers presented our poster displays from the past 3 years to the new
creekers and updated them on what we have been doing in terms of past projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We discussed the QVRA situation and we also
discussed Ed Schroth’s efforts to upgrade LSC to an exceptional value stream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also set up our 2 herpetological cover
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monthly ALLARM testing data.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will
provide accurate baseline data in terms of TDS, conductivity and water level
before any Marcellus Shale Gas Extraction activity enters the LSC
watershed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LSCWA Volunteers and the QV Creekers (including alumni) have been collecting data
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Shocking</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> - On October 10th 2012, the creekers went fish shocking with
Western Pa Conservancy Biologist, Eric Chapman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
Fish shocking volunteers and QV Creekers </span>examined 3 sites on the LS Creek watershed (one on each branch and one below the dam at Woodland Road). This is the 4<sup>th</sup> consecutive year that we have witnessed high
fish diversity below dam (about 22 species) and low diversity (4-5 species)
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Jefferson salamander project with Dr. Catie Hanna of Robert Morris University’s
Biology Dept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creekers will work with
Dr. Hanna and her students to mark and recapture Jefferson salamanders this
spring for a population study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will
also take a greater role in checking the traps at the study site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last year, we caught and marked 149 Jefferson
salamanders and approx 6 Spotted salamanders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Cover Board Study</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">- Cover boards are 2’X 2’ pieces of metal or untreated
plywood that herpetologists use to survey for salamander and snake species by
lifting and counting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During training in
October, QV Creekers assembled 15 cover boards for herpetological surveys in
the watershed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creekers labeled and
camouflaged (with spray paint) each of the boards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will serve as our research project for
the creek connections conference in spring 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These boards will also be incorporated into
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: GungsuhChe;">This process will allow us to keep track of the individual salamanders that continue to migrate to our ponds each year. We also weigh and measure the snout vent length & total of all the salamanders caught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will also show us how the salamanders are doing health-wise.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: GungsuhChe;">This experiment will shed light on the behaviors and natural history of these animals in the wild.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Kvp0dLc7-EEyQm5OlWubBrwVo4fxttfun1rGPqqnP4Z-8p-8tx_XUcta0akYnhm9VaBnI0rYQFzYMzIKC_pGs2SWKwm6eCpbK9V410SsqpCn2dYADkayd5FX7Cq-qVebZHLbXDth7uc/s1600/eggs+at+pond.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Kvp0dLc7-EEyQm5OlWubBrwVo4fxttfun1rGPqqnP4Z-8p-8tx_XUcta0akYnhm9VaBnI0rYQFzYMzIKC_pGs2SWKwm6eCpbK9V410SsqpCn2dYADkayd5FX7Cq-qVebZHLbXDth7uc/s320/eggs+at+pond.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric with his aquaponics system</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric gave the group a tour of how the aquaponics system works. Students were able to eat some of the plants growing in the system which included wheatgrass and lettuce.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Sophmore QV Creeker (Eric B) gives an overview of the aquaponics system he built in his basement for his sophmore project. Eric learned about aquaponics while at Allegheny College's Creek Camp (Creek Connections Program) last summer. The system is basically a 3 tier set-up. On the lower deck below the level in the picture above, you will find fish living in a tank. Their wastewater is pumped up through the system allowing the plants to take advantage of their waste for growth. These systems are now being used in 3rd world countries to generate food production. Eric keeps close watch over the system and tests the water periodically for nitrates, pH level etc...QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-85043667825800593762012-01-19T06:58:00.000-08:002012-01-19T07:00:13.082-08:00ALLARM Testing <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abbey examines 2 samples collected from Little Sewickley Creek in Jan 2012</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">QV Creeker (Eva) tests water at Barberry Road site on Little Sewickley Creek</td></tr>
</tbody></table>On Jan 18 2012, the QV Creekers were visited by Veronica Coptis of the Mountain Watershed Association. Veronica spoke to the creekers about the new testing they will be doing on Little Sewickley Creek for the next year. Students will collect monthly water samples from 5 locations in the watershed and test for TDS and conductivity. They will also record surrogate stream flow The purpose of this testing is to start gathering baseline water quality data before any type of drilling takes place for natural gas extraction in the Marcellus shale formation within the watershed. There are currently no drill sites within the LSC watershed, however the data collected by the creekers will serve as a baseline record before any drilling activities begin. The first round of water samples were sent to Dickison College for Quality Control through the ALLARM program.</div>QV Creekershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581630668819397786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250618033094934648.post-3136697257430206772011-12-02T09:48:00.000-08:002012-01-19T06:44:23.044-08:00Hemlock Wooly AdlegidThe Hemlock Wooly Adelgid (HWA) is a forest pest that attacks pine trees, specifically Eastern Hemlocks. It is an invasive species from Asia brought over to America around 1922, it was found in PA records around 1967. It is a problem in the US, because it sucks juices from the base of Hemlock needles. This prevents the tree from photosynthesizing and kills it. There are also no native predators in the US, which causes them to just keep breeding and spreading. There are two main tactics that local naturalists are using to remove them. One is a chemical approach which when applied to the Hemlock trees, kills the Wooly Adlegid. The other technique is to use a biological control. This would consist of us introducting one of it's natural predators, a type of beetle. Beetles are currently being introduced into Pennsulvania to control HWA using beetles from the Pacific Northwest. There are benefits and drawbacks of using the chemical and the beetles for biological control.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK49cRN1nkli8zmqrZpCt9WUsuT2V_Et7wQcreHTqKWGy-Hzj92_1oBliBFuDoD1iaN1VOCRYx4isfQh3k43mp5PQwOW38OzX2QaO2ucJ7R6RXS6W0DYCzuA0_KbDhd7KyoRvMjAxABww/s1600/382643_10150405147003311_189229333310_8480117_839832356_n%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK49cRN1nkli8zmqrZpCt9WUsuT2V_Et7wQcreHTqKWGy-Hzj92_1oBliBFuDoD1iaN1VOCRYx4isfQh3k43mp5PQwOW38OzX2QaO2ucJ7R6RXS6W0DYCzuA0_KbDhd7KyoRvMjAxABww/s320/382643_10150405147003311_189229333310_8480117_839832356_n%255B1%255D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is Thad our Park Ranger giving us a lesson on Hemlock threes and more importantly the Hemlock Wooly Adlegid.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">In our last Creekers meeting we met with April and Thad to help them measure and tag Hemlocks. We were educated about the HWA and then split into two groups so we could cover more ground. In that one hike we collect data from 113 different Hemlocks. This information will give us a more accurate number of Hemlocks and help estimate a price for a chemical treatment.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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