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Volunteer monitoring programs with online databases
(note, not all are Extension-sponsored):
Alabama
Water Watch
Aquastats (An online database for storing water monitoring results in a central location. It can be used for beaches, lakes, streams and rivers, as well as other water body types.)
Canada's Banrock Station Wetlands Foundation: Wetland Guardians Registry
Citizens Monitoring Bacteria (Note: This site is best used through Internet Explorer.)
Colorado River Watch Go to data
Georgia's Adopt-a-Wetland
Great
North American Secchi Dip-in
Illinois' DuPage County chapter of the Sierra Club Nutrient Monitoring Program
Indiana's
Hoosier Riverwatch
Iowa NatureMapping
IOWATER
Kansas
Pathfinder Science This database is actually an
online mapping system organized by zipcode, so data
locations will be somewhat generalized (if you're interested
in data collection in a school district or something
localized such as that).
Massachusetts'
Waquoit Bay (Mass) National Estuarine Research Reserve
Bay Watchers and system wide monitoring then scroll
down to 'resources' and then choose 'lesson plan' for
step by step instructions for downloading and analyzing
the data. Direct link to database is: http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/
Michigan's
Flint River Watershed Coalition This site links
to numerous data sources (all static data) including data reports as well
as data from the Flint
River Water Quality Project.
Alliance for the Great Lakes's Adopt-A-Beach Program (Note: This database is down for maintenance. Last checked June 10 2008.)
Maine's Shore Stewards (under construction)
Maine's PEARL (Public Educational Access to Environmental Information) database
Michigan's MiICorps Data Exchange Network
Missouri
Stream Teams
New York's Hudson Basin River Watch
New York's Westchester County's Citizen Volunteer Monitoring Program
Ohio's
Greenacres Foundation/Little Miami Watershed Monitoring
Program
Ohio Lake Management Society's Citizen Lakes Monitoring (CLAM) Program
Oregon's Student Watershed Research Project Go to student data
Pennsylvania Senior Environment Corporation database (Note: The database has been locked from accepting new data. Past submissions can still be searched/viewed. Last checked June 10, 2008.)
Utah's
A River Run Through Us
Washington
NatureMapping
Wisconsin's EcoAtlas
Wisconsin's NatureMapping 
Wisconsin's Surface Water Integrated Monitoring System (SWIMS) Database (Note: This database is only searchable by registered users)
Wisconsin's
Water Action Volunteers
Wisconsin
Discovery Farms-Trained Local Samplers
World
Monitoring Day (Note: this database is down for maintenance. Last checked June 10, 2008.)
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