Schoharie River Center

The Schoharie River Center (SRC) is a community based Science and Arts educational not-for-profit organization that strives to empower people to become actively engaged in the scientific study, monitoring, protection and improvement of their local environment and community. The SRC provides a wide range of year-round youth development, family and community activities in orger to forge a connection between the natural history and ecology of the Schoharie and Mohawk river watersheds. Our programs include award winning youth development programs: the Environmental Study Team (EST), Archeology field schools, and the Community Documentation Project, as well as programs in the folklife, traditional arts, workshops, concerts of live music, experiential learning opportunities, as well as family and community activities.

The Schoharie River Center’s Environmental Study Team is a year-round environmental science-based career and life skills youth development program of SRC, a nonprofit environmental and cultural organization. Working with youth ages 12 to18 who live within the Mohawk and Schoharie Watersheds of New York State, the SRC’s EST programs teach youth to assess, record, and document the water quality and health of their communities’ local watersheds. Using EPA-approved testing and assessment procedures (water chemistry analysis, benthic-macroinvertebrate sampling and identification, and bacterial testing) SRC environmental educators work with EST teens in the field (and the streams) to conduct hands-on scientific inquiry-focused research on the ecology of the watershed–its plants, animals, insects, and geology.