WaterkeepersAlabama
@WaterkeepersA
Regional Entity of @Waterkeeper Alliance launched in 2018 to further connect and support #Waterkeeper groups on waters that flow through and across Alabama.
Thank you for helping clean up Alabama's environment. great job, especially is this hot weather 👏
Artificial turf potentially linked to cancer deaths of six Phillies baseball players. The lawn replacement – largely fallen out of favor in professional sports these days – contains large amounts of toxic chemicals. theguardian.com/society/2023/m…
🎓 Congratulations to our @UA_CIROH 2024-2025 Water-R20 NRT graduates! "It was a real pleasure to engage with them as they truly represent the best of The University of Alabama graduate student body." - Dr. Hannah Holcomb #Hydrology #WaterScience #Congratulations #ROLLTIDE
THIS TUESDAY, July 29, 5-10 PM, Rojo will donate 10% of all sales to Black Warrior Riverkeeper! facebook.com/events/s/rojo-…
It's All Connected: A Q&A With Marine Scientist John Lehrter via @MobileBaykeeper mobilebaykeeper.org/blog/its-all-c…
"Good morning world. You are looking at sunrise over the Black Warrior River." -John Wathen, Hurricane Creekkeeper
Outstanding work!
We recently teamed up with Beautiful Zion African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and Druid City Bicycle Club to remove 530 lbs of trash at Sanders Ferry Road in #Tuscaloosa! Learn more about our volunteer opportunities: blackwarriorriver.org/volunteer/
618 months & counting! 😉 We’ve been flowing strong since 1974, and we’re just getting started. 🌊 New to American Rivers? Learn more about us: americanrivers.org/about/?utm_cam…
Eagle Creek Falls, Sipsey Wilderness. #onlyinalabama #alabamathebeautiful #bestoftheyellowhammerstate #bestoftheusa #sipseywilderness #alabamawaterfalls #sipseywaterfalls #waterfallchasing #offtraiwaterfalls #offtrailhiking #offtrailadventures #hikingadventures #solohiking
We recently teamed up with Beautiful Zion African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and Druid City Bicycle Club to remove 530 lbs of trash at Sanders Ferry Road in #Tuscaloosa! Learn more about our volunteer opportunities: blackwarriorriver.org/volunteer/
Happy Birthday to Penelope, one of our incredible Human-Environmental Analysts! Wishing you the best day filled with celebration and joy! 🎉🥳 #TeamGWSC #HappyBirthday
Be Dam Aware! 🚣 While low head dams can still serve useful purposes in some areas, they are public safety hazards that have claimed more than 1,400 lives. Read more on how to stay safe while out on the river this summer: americanrivers.org/low-head-dam-s…
In #Alabama, #outdoor #recreation generates 65,409 direct #jobs, $3.0 Billion in wages and #salaries, and $6.6 Billion total outdoor recreation #value added to #GDP: outdoorindustry.org/state/alabama
My PhD research site was located in the Sipsey swamp. Good to see the work continuing. It is a special place!
From algorithms to soil augers! Our REU students collected wetland and upland soil cores in Sipsey Wilderness, studying how grey vs. red soil colors reveal drainage patterns critical for flood forecasting. Hands-on field work educating tomorrow's water scientists! #WaterREU2025
Please join us in welcoming the newest members of the Waterkeeper Alliance Board of Directors! Sally Bethea, Patricio Chambers, Dan Gerard, Laura Reinsborough, and Alexis Segal (L-R) Each of them brings unique experience, insight, and a deep commitment to the fight for clean,…
More energy usage than all the residences in Birmingham. 2 million gallons a day of water. More than 100 acres of forest clear cut. Putting the Birmingham darter at risk of extinction. Read about the impacts of a proposed data center in Alabama here: insideclimatenews.org/news/25072025/…
Watch “The Devil We Know” a documentary detailing the lengths in which DuPont hid their own scientific findings. DuPont secretly called PFAS (forever chemicals) “the devil’s piss,” a crude but descriptive term about how this bio-persistent toxin has permeated us and our world. 👿
Forever chemicals in household objects linked to type 2 diabetes, scientists warn msn.com/en-gb/health/o…
Positive Maturity honored Eva Dillard, our staff attorney, with a Top 50 Over 50 award tonight!
Big congrats to Dr. Erin Menzies Pluer, GWSC Environmental Data Scientist, whose poster was recognized as one of the best at the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science & Education! Incredible work! 👏🎉 #GWSC #DataViz #EnvironmentalScience #GRC