The Stroubles Creek Corridor Assessment (SCCA) Project Director: Tamim Younos Project Coordinator: Raymond de Leon The Stroubles Creek Corridor Assessment (SCCA) is a service-learning project carried out by students from Virginia Tech and volunteers from the community. The SCCA is designed to serve both as a model for stream monitoring and as a research and community outreach program in the watershed. The SCCA fosters the development of “Learning Communities” and Service Initiative at Virginia Tech. The goal of Learning Communities for Service Initiative is to foster the formation of learning communities dedicated to community service, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and shared leadership among students, faculty, and community partners. The major goal of the SCCA is to use the program to monitor and document the health of Stroubles Creek and to aid the creek restoration efforts. The information collected in the survey will be shared with stakeholders and other interest groups to prioritize future restoration efforts in the watershed. Future activities on the SCCA will include the following: · Biological and physiochemical and assessment · Application of new geospatial information technologies to data collection and management · Development of a Geographical Interactive Website · Development of new strategies to improve service-learning and volunteers participation · Presentation of data in the Stroubles Creek Watershed Summit Stroubles Creek Watershed Internet Map Server (IMS) http://vtims.its.vt.edu/website/projects/stroublescreek/viewer.htm The IMS is an on-going project developed by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center in partnership with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. The Stroubles Creek Watershed IMS contains digital data of the Virginia Digital Ortho Quarter Quads (VA DOQQs) and the Montgomery County and the Town of Blacksburg's road and stream GIS layers. Future work on this site will enable users to view data collected from the survey of the Stroubles Creek corridor (e.g. site diagrams, photos of stream condition, etc). Troutfarm TMDL MOOsburg http://moosburg.cs.vt.edu MOOsburg is a graphical-based virtual environment developed by The Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. The MOOsburg project is focused on developing a community internet resource for Blacksburg. The purpose of the project is to create a community based on-line resource modeled on the town of Blacksburg in southwest VA. This resource can take on many forms: an information database, virtual meeting rooms, education tools, and much more. The goal is to foster real-time communication and interaction among the local community. A web page is no longer a static information provider, but a meeting place for people with common interests, a repository for interactive objects, a mutable world changeable by the users, both content recipients and creators. Early development of MOOsburg was based on Object Oriented Multi-User Domains or "MOOs". Traditionally, MOOs represent text-based virtual reality environments where people meet, communicate, and interact on-line. Multi-user domains grew out of on-line fantasy adventure games, but they have become widely used for education, business, research, and general entertainment. The latest version of MOOsburg extends the functions and interactivity of text-based MOOs to a rich graphical and spacial environment expected of web applications today. Duck Pond's Water Quality Study- Project Website webmaster Virginia Water Resources Research Center 23 Agnew  Hall (0444) Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 P: (540) 231-5624 F:(540) 231-6673