Maryland Water Monitoring Council

Last day (4/13) to register for the MWMC 'You're Getting Warmer' Workshop. Attendance is virtual or in-person (limited space) on 4/15.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MDDNR/bulletins/40f336d

The Technology Transfer Center of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) developed a novel high-throughput assay for the detection and monitoring of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in water sources and are looking for partners that may be interested in licensing and commercializing this technology and help protect the public from EDC contaminated water sources. For more, please see the attached information sheets.

The 2026 Streams Roundtable site map has been posted for tomorrow's meeting. A link to meeting info and a clickable map are in the comments.

Here is a web version of an email sent earlier today about the upcoming Streams Roundtable. Follow the link for info or to subscribe to future MWMC emails.

MWMC Maryland Streams Roundtable is February 26 MWMC Maryland Streams Roundtable is February 26 Maryland Department of Natural Resources sent this bulletin at 01/15/2026 03:00 PM EST Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Webpage Greetings, fellow water monitors. It’s that time of year again! Let’s get together and coordinate stream ...

More opportunities available for early career development.

MES' Co-op program for developing young professionals is accepting applications! The program provides college students with extended experiential learning, professional mentorship, and meaningful career development opportunities in environmental, engineering, and technical fields.

Learn more at: www.menv.com/careers

For partnership or participation inquiries, contact MES Human Resources at [email protected].

Summer internships available at SERC.

Five weeks left to apply for one of our paid summer ! Have questions about applying, or want to learn more about the intern experience? We're hosting two virtual info sessions on Jan. 13 at noon and Jan. 22 at 5:30pm (all Eastern time). Intern coordinator Heather Richardson and former intern Gabe Stephenson will be available to answer YOUR questions.

View details: https://serc.si.edu/internships
Sign up for the Jan. 13 info session: https://s.si.edu/49N0404
Sign up for the Jan 22 info session: https://s.si.edu/4qDbSri

📸 by Quinn Burkhart, Karen McDonald and the SERC Fisheries Conservation Lab

Student Career Chat with MWMC
Feb 24th, 2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm
https://dnr.maryland.gov/streams/Pages/MWMC/MWMC-Webinars-and-Workshops.aspx

Please join us for a virtual student career chat and networking session with local leaders in the water, environmental science, and climate fields. Our panel will share insights on their career paths, helpful courses, methods for finding internships and jobs, and discuss pros and cons of different focus areas and sectors of employment. During this session, students will be able to gain broader perspectives on how to apply their skill sets to careers, form collaborations and join a larger community, look at projects more wholistically, explore other ways to get experience in their field, and more.

The career chat is targeted toward high school, college, and graduate students (middle school is welcome to join if desired) and will be a relaxed atmosphere primarily focused on Q&A. We encourage student attendees to come with questions for our panelists.

MWMC would like to recognize KCI Technologies for their ongoing support of our annual conference's student poster awards and post-conference social which help to build a stronger Maryland water monitoring community.

In partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake Bay Office, CRC offers paid, twelve-week summer undergraduate internships in a range of fields including fisheries management, habitat assessment, ecology, scientific field support, data analysis, education, community engagement, partnership development, modeling, and environmental policy development.

NCBO Internships - Chesapeake Research Consortium CRC and the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office offer paid summer internships that contribute to ecological research critical to understanding the Chesapeake Bay.

ICYMI-The recent winners of the MWMC Annual Conference Student Poster Competition.

First place: Georgiana Issac, Poolesville High School, Effects of Seasonal and Thermal Trends on Pollution-Induced DNA Damage in Anacostia River Killifish

Second place: Sofia Aguilar, Mount St. Mary's University, Use of Polymerase Chain Reaction to Investigate Cyanobacteria Growth in Competition Settings

Third place: Alessandra Diric, University of Maryland, College Park, Evaluating Turbidity and Total Suspended Solids in a Step-Pool Streamwater Conveyance

This year's Above and Beyond Award winner is Lindsay Powers from Maryland DNR.