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Volunteer Monitoring Programs' Online Database Listing (and Links)

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Project Initiatives Link to 382K pdf file with a Project DescriptionLink to Outreach Materials and Activities webpageLink to Information about Nationwide InquiryLink to information about online databasesLink to webpage about training modules

Link to listing of Volunteer Monitoring Programs sponsored or co-sponsored by ExtensionLink to listing of Extension-connected Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring programsLink to webpae about volunteer monitoring programs' acheivementsLink to current highlighted programLink to highlighted program archiveslink to job postings

Link to Related Research and Educational EffortsLink to information about studies that research various aspects of volunteer monitoring
Link to webpage about the Guide for Growing Programs Link to 803 K pdf file about Using the Guide Link to Why Monitoring Makes Sense 582K portable document format fileLink to Designing Your Monitoring Strategy, 1.6 M p.d.f. fileLink to Monitoring Matrix, 80K p.d.f. fileLink to 986K p.d.f. file about effective training techniquesLink to 437 KB p.d.f. file of Monitoring Equipment SuppliersLink to listing of direct links to online manuals from volunteer monitoring (Extension) programsLink to 1.5 MB pdf file about Building Credibility for Volunteer Monitoring Programs (Quality Assurance and Quality Control)Link to 1020 KB pdf file about SHaring Information Through Internet ExchangeLink to fact sheet learning module about Volunteer Management (7 M pdf file)Link to 6086 KB pdf file about planning your program's data management systemOutreach ToolsLocating Support and Funding

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Link to Secchi Dip-In websiteLink to National Water Monitoring Day InformationLink to Volunteer E. coli Monitoirn gProject website

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Volunteer monitoring programs with online databases (note, not all are Extension-sponsored):

Alabama Water Watch

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

Great North American Secchi Dip-in

Indiana's Hoosier Riverwatch

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 Nature Mapping

Wisconsin's EcoAtlas

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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Updated Tuesday, 10-Jun-2008 12:37:56 CDT
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