REQUIRED FIRST[X] HRS · SELF-PACED
Field Safety for Urban Explorers
Legal access and rights-of-way, working in pairs, moving water, and when to walk away.
Start course →Programs give your readings a purpose. Courses make sure they hold up when an agency or a reporter looks at them.
Commit to one creek, outfall or fence line and log it on a regular schedule. Long, steady records are what regulators take seriously.
Adopt a siteCoordinated first-flush sampling after heavy rain, from banks and bridges with a pole only.
Nobody enters a channel. Campaigns are called off during flood warnings or lightning.
Get storm alertsClassroom kit sets and a data-sharing agreement so student field work feeds the open map and faculty research.
Partner with usWe work under existing state volunteer-monitoring quality plans and certified labs, so quality-assured findings go to the agency that can act on them.
See partnersLegal access and rights-of-way, working in pairs, moving water, and when to walk away.
Start course →Asbestos, lead paint, low-oxygen and confined spaces, structural failure, and why you never enter a drain or culvert.
Start course →Spotting dry-weather flow, the markers for sewage and tap water, calibrating meters, and avoiding sample contamination.
Start course →What low-cost PM2.5 sensors can and can’t tell you, correction factors, co-location and repeat route runs.
Start course →Planning a route, shielding the sensor from sun, running with a campaign, and comparing block to block.
Start course →Calibrated noise surveys, telling tonal hum from background, construction runoff checks, and reading a facility’s public permits.
Reserve a seat →Where legacy contamination hides, sampling depth and spacing, avoiding cross-contamination, and reading lab results.
Start course →Documentation, photos, calibration logs, duplicate samples, and how to submit a complaint an agency has to act on.
Start course →Getting accurate locations on public routes, and building a route others can repeat.
Reserve a seat →Certified readings get a badge on the map and are the first ones packaged for agencies.