12th Annual SEEA Conference & Research Symposium

Discover how land-use practices affect water quality with EnviroScape models, 3D mini watersheds. Learn about point and nonpoint source pollution and explore steps like identifying local environmental issues, launching community projects, and using EnviroScapes for sustainability education.

An EnviroScape model is a 3-D self-contained mini watershed that allows participants to observe and simulate, in real-time, the interactions of precipitation with various land-use practices and the impacts they have on streams, lakes, water supplies, and groundwater. An EnviroScape model allows you to simulate many sources of both point and nonpoint source pollution, create floods, pave over a field here, plant a buffer there and see what happens. We have two different versions of EnviroScapes including the standard Watershed/Nonpoint Source Model and the Coastal Watershed Model for demonstration. We will discuss human and non-human impacts on ecosystem dynamics in various environments.
actionable item(s) will attendees
1. Identifying local environmental issues, businesses and organizations can develop projects to address them for sustainable development and reduction of environmental impacts.
2. Implementing community participation such as organizing a cleanup or starting a recycling program.
3. Borrowing the EnviroScape Models to educate the public of point and nonpoint source pollution.