During 2001 and 2002 a series of inquiries were developed by national facilitation project staff. They targeted audiences including state Water Quality Coordinators and later, coordinators of Cooperative-Extesnion sponsored volunteer water quality monitoring programs across the nation.

Our initial inquiries focused on discovering the number and extent of existing Extension-based volunteer monitoring programs, their locations, principal contacts and how they operate in order to develop a current CSREES volunteer monitoring/ state Extension Water Quality coordinators contact list. They focused on updating and expanding a nationwide assessment conducted by Cooperative Extension in 1996. Results of that study are available here as a 1.8 MB pdf file.

Inquiries that followed were designed to learn more about existing programs in order to ascertain their strengths and needs, and to discover what coordinators' considered exemplary about their program. This information will be merged into and help give direction to our "Guide for Growing Extension Volunteer Monitoring Programs."

Below, is a table with a link to a summary of our initial inquiry to state's Water Quality Coordinators, a link to the actual inquiry we used to assess Cooperative-Extension sponsored or co-sponsored monitoring programs, and links to summaries of each section of that program level inquiry.

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