{"id":26228,"date":"2019-01-31T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=26228"},"modified":"2019-02-01T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:25:14","slug":"maryland-biological-stream-survey-offers-annual-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/01\/31\/maryland-biological-stream-survey-offers-annual-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Biological Stream Survey Offers Annual Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Support the State\u2019s Water Quality Monitoring Effort<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7388\/27366691591_a86c704c1e.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of biologist conducting stream survey\" width=\"352\" height=\"264\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0is offering trainings and certifications in <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/streams\/Pages\/mbsstraining.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Biological Stream Survey<\/a> sampling protocols.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two training opportunities will be held at Howard County Community College, one in February and another in May. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Through a mix of classroom and field experiences, participants will learn and be tested on benthic macroinvertebrate and fish sampling methods, physical habitat assessment, fish taxonomy and how to be a crew leader. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spring training will be held 9 a.m to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 26; registration deadline is Feb. 12. Summer training will be held May 28-31; registration deadline is May 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Training sessions are intended for professionals but are open to anyone. A <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/streams\/Pages\/mbsstraining.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full training schedule, registration materials and details<\/a> can be found on the Maryland Biological Stream Survey website.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support the State\u2019s Water Quality Monitoring Effort The Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0is offering trainings and certifications in Maryland Biological Stream Survey sampling protocols.\u00a0Two training opportunities will be held at Howard County Community College, one in February and another in May. Through a mix of classroom and field experiences, participants will learn and be tested<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/01\/31\/maryland-biological-stream-survey-offers-annual-training\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,33],"tags":[3207,4956,4680],"class_list":["post-26228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay","tag-howard-county","tag-howard-county-community-college","tag-maryland-biological-stream-survey"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26228"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26248,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26228\/revisions\/26248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}