A tremendous amount of valuable information is shared through EPA and CSREES sponsored volunteer monitoring listservs (as well as others). We created this archive of select interactions from these listservs to help ensure that the knowledge shared through them can reach as wide an audience as possible. Use the topic list below to access these exchanges.

Advocacy Rules of Engagement

Age of Volunteer Lake Monitoring Programs

Ammonia Monitoring

Aquatic Invasive Species Monitoring

Aquatic Plant Identification Guides

ATV Education to Discourage Erosion

Bacteria Monitoring

Beavers and Lakes

Biological Impairment - So What?

California Watershed Assessment Manual

Chemical Safety and Procedures

Creating a Volunteer Monitoring Program

Credible Data Laws

Cutting Costs and Services Without Reducing Support

Dam Removal

Data Presentation Suggestions for Visual/Habitat Surveys

Data Sharing Policies

Data Storage, Retrieval, and Management

Decontamination Methods

Dissolved Oxygen Meters

Dissolved Oxygen Sampling Depths

Dissolved Oxygen Saturation Table

Documenting Site Location

DPI and Digital Photos

Educational Invasives Funding

Enterrocci Monitoring

Flow Meters

Flow Monitoring

Freeware Spreadsheets

Getting The Most From Volunteer Monitoring (article in March 2008 issue of NWQEP Notes, the NCSU Water Quality Group newsletter; 732 KB pdf file)

Getting Volunteers to Turn in Their Data

Girl Scouts' Involvement

Groundwater Monitoring

Hach DR 2500 vs colorimeter

Healthy Urban Streams

Hydrocarbon Monitoring

Job Description examples for volunteers

Labs that can analyze fish for metals and other contaminants

Land Use - Aquatic Integrity Studies

Lakeshore Value

Liability Insurance for Volunteers

Low Order Stream Monitoring

Macroinvertebrate Guides and Keys

Macroinvertebrate Image Sources

Macroinvertebrate Monitoring

Macroinvertebrate Sampling in Small Streams - How To Not Harm Them

Monitoring Soft Bottom Tidally Influenced Streams

Motivating Volunteers

Moving Volunteers to the Next Level

Naming Streams

New Monitoring Program Development Advice

Nitrogen-related Fact Sheets

Nitrogen Testing Kits and Probes

Nutrient Monitoring

Online Data Entry By Volunteers

Online Databases - Cost vs. Benefits of Them

Online Event Scheduling

Onlne Mapping

Parking Lots' Impacts on Water Quality

pH Meters

Photo Libraries

Preservative

Providing Data To Volunteers

Quality Assurance Project Plan templates

Relating Biological Metrics to Stressors

Reproducing Volunteer Monitor newsletter articles

Report Examples

River Clean Up Bags

Road Salt Accumulation Studies

Secchi Discs

Service Provider Network

Silent Streams, an article from the Washington Post Nov. 27, 2005, by Mary Battiata

Simple Indices from Large Data Sets

Sodium Chloride Sampling

Spanish Macroinvertebrate Identification Key

STORET and Volunteer Monitoring

Storm Drain Stenciling Impacts

Stormwater Monitoring

Stream Aquarium

Stream Debris Survey Protocols

Success Stories

Test Kit Waste

Tile Line Monitoring

Total Dissolved Solids Meters

Toxins and Emerging Pollutant Monitoring

Train the Trainer

Transparency Tube Sample Size

Understanding Data Results

Uses of Volunteer Monitoring Data

Values of Long Term Monitoring

Volunteer Data Usage in 305(b) Reports and 303(d) Lists

Volunteer Data - The Bad Side

Volunteer Monitoring Trends

Volunteer vs Professional Monitoring Studies (summarized)

Volunteer Wage Rates

Water Quality Test Kits

Water Samplers

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