A Southern New Hampshire Survey on Watersheds

With information gathered from the "Eyes on the Environment" Watershed Education Workshop for Broadcast Meteorologists presented at the 31st Broadcast Conference in Williamsburg, VA, we decided to conduct a survey on watershed knowledge among the general public here in our local market of Southern New Hampshire.

Travis Marshall my former Weather Watcher in Derry, NH now a resident of Springhill, Florida and a student at Springstead High School, who plans to one day major in meteorology, made up the survey on watersheds and he and I handed them out at our local Market Basket supermarket in the late summer of 2002. Additional surveys were handed out later to the science classes at Pinkerton Academy. In all we had about 100 responses.

This presentation will bring you the results of that survey and help you to realize that there is a great lack of knowledge among the public on this subject that we as broadcasters can enlighten them upon.