Training along the Santry was a success! Some of our volunteers received the second and final part of their training by learning how to collect CSSI samples in the field. Thanks to all those that came out - we cannot wait to see the great work you will do!

Delighted to attend University of Notre Dame Dublin to see the University of Notre Dame interns sign off on their time here in #Dublin this summer. In particular the amazing Lizzie Stifel who worked with us & Dr Susan Hegarty Wishing you all the very best in your future careers & you are always so welcome back 🇺🇸🇮🇪

A series of training sessions took place in the past two weeks along the Dodder and the Tolka Rivers. Big thanks to all the volunteers that joined us, showing great interest and enthusiasm in monitoring the water quality of our rivers!

Happy World Rivers Day today - #SourceToSea

A lot has been happening over the past months on Urban Citizen's 6.3.2. We have trained 4⃣5⃣ individual people, who will go out in groups to monitor water quality. Our #CitizenScientists have gathered data from 7⃣0⃣ points. These cover 4⃣ urban catchments in Dublin.

Last week we presented a poster at the Waves of Change Conference by DCU Water Institute. A great opportunity to showcase our progress and exchange ideas with a diverse audience of water-related professionals, researchers and advisors. DCU Water Institute #WavesofChange We are now Research Ireland

The first nutrients' maps and a photo gallery of macroinvertebrates are now on our website: urbancitizens632.ie/pages/results?… Big thanks to our amazing citizen scientists for collecting these data!😃

Last Thursday we visited the Santry River with Diogo Bolster and colleagues from University of Notre Dame. We met up with some of our citizen scientists, who discussed their findings. Amazing moments, and a great opportunity to exchange ideas ND-ECI University of Notre Dame Dublin DCU Research We are now Research Ireland

#CitizenScience is about a two-way partnership. We learn from our collaborators in local communities, who are monitoring on Urban Citizen's 6.3.2. Today, some of our #CitizenScientists came on to Dublin City University for a workshop on macroinvertebrates with the fab Laura Ribero. We are now Research Ireland

Last week we presented our project at the River Restoration Centre Annual Conference 2024 in Llandudno, Wales. Great opportunity to meet the international community working on river restoration, while exchanging ideas and visiting amazing river sites. The RRC #RRCConference

Almost 200 surveys done by our amazing #CitizenScientists over the past eight months (each dot is a survey). If you haven't had a chance to look at some of the maps, check them out on the website (urbancitizens632.ie). Now to analysis. We are now Research Ireland DCU Research DCU Water Institute

We are now at 2⃣0⃣0⃣ surveys for Urban Citizen's 6.3.2! Well done to all our #citizenscientists.

Do you want to learn more about water quality and how water quality sensors work? Join us on the 20th of May from 5pm to 6.30pm in the DCC Innovation Hub (CHQ). Sign up here: eventbrite.ie/e/water-qualit… or by emailing Karolina at [email protected].

Congrats to Urban Citizen's 6.3.2's fab '23 summer intern Lizzie Stifel, who graduated from University of Notre Dame last weekend. Lizzie helped set up the community groups, via University of Notre Dame Dublin's programme. Her water adventures continue- Lizzie secured a Princeton in Asia fellowship to work at IWMI.

Welcome to our summer interns! Meet Christine, Jack, Beibhinn and Roisín, who will spend two months working on the data that has been gathered so far on Urban Citizen's 6.3.2. They are looking forward to getting stuck in, and to getting into the field and meeting communities too.

Super-proud of the 4 interns who have spent the past 8 weeks working on the data from Urban Citizen's 6.3.2. We have ONE year of data, and 327 samples gathered by our #citizenScientists. We are now Research Ireland

Big thanks to all our citizen scientists!

Today we were delighted to host a group of students & staff from Tsinghua University and University of Notre Dame Beijing. We met our citizen scientists in Santry Park, and we discussed how citizen science can help rivers across the globe. Thank you University of Notre Dame Dublin for connecting us!

In the second session on #CitizenScience @IGC2024Dub, Laura Ribero kicked off talking about our We are now Research Ireland funded project Urban Citizen's 6.3.2. We now have over 360 sample points!

This has been an amazing conference. I have learned loads, and got to present our Urban Citizen's 6.3.2 project. So many geoscientists gathered together to learn from each other. Research Ireland