Kat Kavanagh

Executive Director of @water_rangers, promoting community water science & open data. (she/her)

[Water Rangers @water_rangers]

💧 Excitement is rippling for the 2025 Watershed Reports! 🌊 We're not the only ones buzzing—@DataStreamHub, @WWFCanada, @TakeAquaAction, and @EnvironmentCa are sharing why these reports matter for Canada’s freshwater. Celebrate with us on March 26 at https://t.co/HTCTAE7PiS

[Water Rangers @water_rangers]

One week left! Why celebrate #OceanWeekCanada with water testing? 🌊💙

🔬 It builds science & ecosystem knowledge!
⚡ It sparks action to protect water!
📊 It fills vital data gaps!

Let’s make an impact together—apply for our mini-grant by March 31! 🔗 https://t.co/ApVrKiAjOw

[Water Rangers @water_rangers]

🚨The 2025 Watershed Reports are here! 🚨 Dive into the latest insights on freshwater health across 164 watersheds, powered by 34M+ data points! 🌊 Explore water quality, flow, benthic invertebrates, and fish.

Join our webinar & celebration! 🎉https://t.co/HTCTAE7htk

[Watersheds Canada @WatershedsCAN]

We are delighted to introduce another fantastic speaker lined up for Watersheds Canada’s inaugural Conference, taking place May 1-2, 2025, in Haliburton, ON! 📣 🌱

Gabi Parent-Doliner is the Director of Water Rangers, helping to build internal systems, manage water data, and nurture community engagement. In addition, Gabi serves on the board of the Great Lakes Beach Association and is a leader in community based water monitoring, CBWM data, and open data. She also currently serves on an IJC Health Practitioners Advisory Board reporting on Beach Sanitary Survey/Environmental Health and Sanitary Survey. 🏖️

She has a strong background and expertise in Great Lakes beach water quality monitoring, data sources, monitoring practices, and government guidelines. Parent-Doliner worked closely with community volunteers, and project collaborators on the strategy for and delivery of the Lake Erie Rangers program. She supports the Water Rangers’ volunteers across the country in their data collection, data management, and sharing. She also manages the Watershed Reports as well as the development of the Business Case Toolkit for Investment in Community Based Water Monitoring. 💧

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Gabi will share her expertise and practical solutions to empower YOU to make a difference.

Register today: https://t.co/oa1kIu5vtu !

[Water Rangers @water_rangers]

It's here -- our annual review! 2024 was a great year for leading growth in community based water monitoring. Starting off with some fin-tastic highlights from our community initiatives, over 9,000 people were trained in water testing! 🐟 Full report at https://t.co/r5mHiK0TSY

[Water Rangers @water_rangers]

We are always improving our tools and building capacity for community-based water monitoring! In 2024, we continued with innovative collaborations like CaSTCo where we learn with the smartest and most passionate river champions! Full annual report at https://t.co/r5mHiK0TSY

[Water Rangers @water_rangers]

Big 💙 to our community who create ripples of change in their own communities! Here are some stand-out testimonials from 2024. Let's keep the wave of action going into 2025! 🌊 Download the full report at https://t.co/r5mHiK0TSY

[Water Rangers @water_rangers]

We wouldn't be here without the incredible people who cotinue to make waves thanks to their passion for taking care of waterways 💙💧. We hope you take the plunge with us and be a part of the movement in 2025! Full report at https://t.co/r5mHiK0TSY

[Izzy Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 @FreshwaterIzzy]

Really proud of this piece of work, which was a collaboration with MANY brilliant people: @swarner000 @enock_kiminta @wwfzambia @gis_michelle @kassy4 @GemsWaterCDC and many more!

[Kat Kavanagh @kassy4]

Thank you, Kevin, for all your support and enthusiasm!

[Kevin Rath @KevinRath]

@kassy4 of @water_rangers addresses the National Freshwater Data Strategy Workshop @environmentca Canada Centre for Inland Waters #GreatLakes @GreaLakes_GC

[Kat Kavanagh @kassy4]

@FreshwaterIzzy @uclbiosciences @UNEP @UN_WWQA @Earthwatch_Eur I'm going to print it out today so I have a physical copy to bring!

[Kat Kavanagh @kassy4]

@FreshwaterIzzy @uclbiosciences @UNEP @UN_WWQA @Earthwatch_Eur And thanks for including @water_rangers in the technical brief!

[Kat Kavanagh @kassy4]

@FreshwaterIzzy @uclbiosciences @UNEP @UN_WWQA @Earthwatch_Eur This is such important work! Speaking at the newly formed Canada Water Agency next week and they need to read this! The fact that community science is part of that conversation is pretty great :)

[Izzy Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 @FreshwaterIzzy]

I’m really proud to share this new policy brief (and associated technical brief) explaining how and why all water resource management authorities should embrace citizen science. https://t.co/2ATwPj9JKB Please share widely! @uclbiosciences @UNEP @UN_WWQA @Earthwatch_Eur

[Kat Kavanagh @kassy4]

@FreshwaterIzzy @uclbiosciences @WildOxfordshire @Earthwatch_Eur @UCLopenscience Love this!!

[Water Rangers @water_rangers]

New video! We supported UK #CaSTCo collaborators @severnrivers @stwater and @EnvAgency in a water blitz, testing different chemical and biological tests!
Learn more at https://t.co/sWnXa4gIgs

https://t.co/3ISLpNos0q

[Gabrielle Pengyu Shao @gabrielleshao]

We saw kids swimming in Ashiya River (芦屋川) in Ashiya, Japan the other day. So we tested the water quality using @water_rangers test kits. All data looks fantastic!

[Izzy Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 @FreshwaterIzzy]

Make sure you sign up for the #GreatUKWaterBlitz in September! Free water quality testing kits, anyone can take part. You can also donate to help supply water testing kits for others at the same link. This has the potential to be HUGE for UK rivers! https://t.co/7lC8pMzY1v

[Ribble Trust CEO @JackSpees]

What a day. Sun, hail, rain, wind and lots of amazing volunteers. 11 sites sampled, and a target area identified for follow up visits from our conservation team. #citizenscience in action 💪

[Water Rangers @water_rangers]

On Saturday, our ED @Kassy4 got together with
@ribbletrust for a World Water Day water quality blitz!

Here's Jim with his son, taking a conductivity reading as the team collected samples for chemistry, invertebrates (@Riverflies), e.coli and eDNA.