Watershed will host its monthly meeting April 3 at the Watershed Center.

Emily Young, Advocacy Outreach Coordinator of Stream Teams United, will present "The Impacts of Plastic Pollution and the Power of Community Engagement."

Emily is a Pennsylvania native who attended Juniata College and received a BS in Environmental Chemistry in 2022. During her time at Juniata, she completed an immersive learning semester focused on Aquatic Ecology at the Raystown Field Station and wrote an undergraduate thesis investigating total phosphorus sequestration in Raystown Lake, a US Army Corps of Engineers reservoir located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

She joined Stream Teams United as an Advocacy Outreach Coordinator in August 2024 to work on the "Show-Me Less Plastic" project, which aims to reduce plastic pollution in the waterways of the Great Rivers State. 

Following the presentation, Adam Coulter, District Conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service will give a quarterly update, and meeting attendees are encouraged to share brief updates.