{"id":487,"date":"2025-07-31T13:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.seagrant.w3.uvm.edu\/?page_id=487"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:02:50","slug":"watershed-alliance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/watershed-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Watershed Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Place-based Watershed Science&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Watershed Alliance (WA)&nbsp;is a Lake Champlain Sea Grant education program that aims to reach K-12 students and their teachers throughout the Lake Champlain basin. The program has two hub locations, one at the University of Vermont which is a partnership between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UVM Extension<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/rsenr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources<\/a>, and the other based out of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plattsburgh.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">State University&nbsp;of New York at Plattsburgh<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plattsburgh.edu\/academics\/lake-champlain-research-institute\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lake Champlain Research Institute<\/a>. Our goal is to increase awareness and knowledge of watershed issues in youth throughout Vermont and New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WA provides curriculum, equipment, and instructors to schools and youth groups participating in our programs, as well as support to teachers who wish to integrate watershed education into their current curriculum.&nbsp;WA also provides&nbsp;internship opportunities&nbsp;to&nbsp;undergraduate students who wish to gain valuable, hands-on experience and training in environmental education. Interns serve as Watershed Educators providing educational programming in schools and other academic settings throughout the basin. All of our programs include both classroom and field components&nbsp;and center on science as inquiry.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uvm.edu\/seagrant\/core-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Explore our programs online<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether we are meeting you&nbsp;in your classroom or at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/rsenr\/rubensteinlab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UVM\u2019s Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plattsburgh.edu\/academics\/lake-champlain-research-institute\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lake Champlain Research Institute<\/a>, or aboard the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uvm.edu\/seagrant\/2023\/08\/01\/a-new-vessel-to-support-lake-champlain-sea-grant-education-and-outreach-efforts\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">R\/V Marcelle&nbsp;<em>Melosira<\/em>,<\/a> our full time&nbsp;education staff and our trained undergraduate Watershed Educators&nbsp;bring to life the current research and the freshwater stressors that impact the Lake Champlain basin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a bridge between research and the community, our program aims to\u00a0connect K-12 teachers and their students with real world challenges and engage students in hands-on field science and stewardship to improve water quality in the basin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qualtrics.uvm.edu\/jfe\/form\/SV_2ifICvW86uNaCmG\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/qualtrics.uvm.edu\/jfe\/form\/SV_2ifICvW86uNaCmG\">Apply online<\/a>\u00a0today for our K-12 programs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Place-based Watershed Science&nbsp; Watershed Alliance (WA)&nbsp;is a Lake Champlain Sea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":489,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-487","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}