Three volunteers crouch by a stream taking water samples.
Emma Lloyd, 17, has volunteered alongside her mother Amy Ulland since they both became certified stream monitors in 2019. In 2023, as a participant in the Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation District's Youth Conservation Leadership Institute, Lloyd worked with NOVA Parks and individual funders to install signs for four local tributaries. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
A volunteer pours water from a large cup into a long tube that another volunteer is holding.
Amy Ulland of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy guides first-time volunteer Emily Italiano through a water clarity measurement along Tuscarora Creek in Leesburg, Va., on Feb. 2, 2025. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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