New Jersey Center for Water Science and Technology

The North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative (NAACC) focused on improving passages of aquatic and terrestrial habitats from Maine to West Virginia.

Careful sampling and analysis is crucial to maintaining clean water sources and cleaning up polluted ones, but keeping constant track of water quality across thousands of miles of rivers and streams in New Jersey is a daunting task – one that would be almost impossible to do properly without crowdsourcing the work to a largely volunteer network.