Volunteer Opportunities with N.O.S.C.

December Volunteer Opportunities

Saturday December 12th 9 a.m - 12 p.m
Morse Creek Cabin, Port Angeles
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Morse Creek Cabin

Monday December 21st 9 a.m - 3 p.m
Salmon Creek Estuary, Discovery Bay
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Salmon Creek Estuary

In the 2007-2008 fiscal year, volunteers have donated over 3,300 hours of their time to our efforts! That is $49,500 that NOSC used this year to match its many grants. Without NOSC’s army of volunteers, members partners and donors, we couldn’t make this happen. Many thanks to all involved!

Below: A NOSC Americorps Crew

Above: A NOSC intern holds a beautiful coho from out on a salmon survey. Below: Collecting otolith (ear bone) samples on salmon carcasses.

Below: Image of a stonefly - one of the many macro-invertebrates we are looking for in our sampling efforts.

Above: Counting fish during May 2008 beach seining - following the 2006 Chimacum Beach
Restoration project
Below: A jar full of sandlance to count!

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Americorps*NCCC crews are a big part of NOSC's volunteer effort... teams of 10-12 young people have been taking part in helping NOSC maintain restoration sites for the past few years. These crews have members coming to us from all over the country, with all kinds of backgrounds. With N*CCC, they come together to perform service work in a wide variety of areas, from education, to disaster relief, and of course, environmental restoration. If you are interested in becoming part of Americorps National Civilian and Community Corps, and you are between ages 18-25, please visit their website:

www.americorps.gov/about/programs/nccc.asp

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Spawning Salmon Surveys

With adult salmon spawning in the late summer through the fall and winter months, N.O.S.C. volunteers and staff are responsible for gathering data on the number of spawning adults migrating into local streams. We would love to have your help in this exciting work (and often messy!) work!

Trained volunteers help manage the adult trap on Salmon and Snow creeks, and help complete foot stream surveys on Chimacum creek - counting coho and summer chum... If you like to get outside and are interested in watching our local salmon return home, this is a great opportunity!!

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Macroinvertebrate Surveys

Fall months bring us into spawning season, and is also the time that NOSC completes macroinvertebrate surveys. These surveys are are done in late summer, early fall months and consist of sampling the stream substrate (bottom) for 'large' invertebrates, or 'stream bugs' -- By knowing what kind / how many of these insects are inhabiting the streams, we can better evaluate the health of the stream habitat.

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Beach Seining Opportunities

Beach seining is typically done in late spring, early summer months at Chimacum Beach -- if you are interested in helping us learn more about what kind of fish are frequenting our shorelines and using the estuary, come and join us!

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