We respectfully pass along this information from Alice Mayio, Office of Wetlands, Oceans at the EPA.
“Join Kris Stepenuck (Wisconsin Water Action Volunteers and now U. of Vermont), who will be speaking on Wednesday at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy event about citizen science/volunteer monitoring.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Domestic Policy Council will host“Open Science and Innovation: Of the People, By the People, For the People,” a live-webcast forum, on Wednesday, September 30th. https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/09/09/open-science-and-innovation-people-people-people
Tune in to the livestream of the forum from 8 AM-12 PM EDT at wh.gov/live. Also, please plan to participate in the forum by sending in your thoughts, comments, and questions to@WhiteHouseOSTP using the hashtag #WHCitSci.
ALSO, MORE NEWS! There’s a new Twitter handle (@volmonitor) to help us share happenings across the world of volunteer water monitoring. Please consider following @volmonitor and we'll do the same for your twitter handle. That will allow us to post about upcoming events or new information relevant to volunteer monitoring, or to repost tweets you make with the broader community of programs, hopefully adding another way we can network and share knowledge.
Please share this announcement with your state, local and regional networks.”
