Announcement 1
From: Leonard C. Ferrington Jr., Ph.D. [mailto:ferri016@tc.umn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:11 PM
To: Volunteer Monitoring List Serve Members
Subject: New On-line resource for Citizen Volunteer Monitoring Programs.
I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about a new on-line
resource for Citizen Volunteer Monitoring Programs, and to ask for your
assistance in helping us notify and advertise it to appropriate groups that
may be involved in water quality monitoring efforts throughout the United
States.
A couple of years ago we published a spiral bound identification guide to
help Citizen Volunteers perform accurate identifications of invertebrates
collected as part of their volunteer water quality monitoring efforts. To
date more than 2000 copies have been disseminated, and many additional
copies have been downloaded from our on-line access site. This manual has
been an astonishing success, and has facilitated improved accuracy of
identifications by citizens who volunteer their personal time to help our
collective efforts to improve water resources in our state. Information
about the manual can be located on-line at:
http://www.entomology.umn.edu/midge/GuidePage.htm
Recently, we developed an Interactive Verification Program to complement the
spiral bound manual, and allow citizens to check the accuracy of their own
identifications. We refer to the software as VSM-IVP, and it can be accessed
at: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/midge/VSMIVP.htm
I would like to request that you help us in advertising this on-line VSM-IVP
resource by telling your constituents about it. The software went on-line in
early December and several states are evaluating it for use in their
respective citizen volunteer programs. For instance, West Virginia has
already provided links to our software on their official state web pages for
water quality programs, and towns in Maryland have asked us for permission
to endorse it as part of their local programs. Although the software was
originally designed for use in Minnesota, we are very excited about this
early trend in national use of our software, and hope that you will assist
us in notifying other potential user groups.
Sincerely,
Leonard Ferrington
Leonard C. Ferrington Jr., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Entomology
University of Minnesota
219 Hodson Hall, 1980 Folwell Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota USA 55108-6125
TELEPHONE: (612) 624-3265
FAX: (612) 625-5299
Visit our web page at: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/midge/index.htm
Announcement 2
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:06:55 -0500
From: Tim Craddock <TCRADDOCK@wvdep.org>
Subject: [CSREESVolMon] New aquatic invertebrate field guide on the WV Save Our
Streams web page
New on the WV Save Our Streams web page is a "Field Guide to Aquatic Invertebrates". This PDF file uses illustrations and Internet links to familiarize the user with commonly encountered families of aquatic invertebrates. The illustrations are from the "Guide to Macroinvertebrates of the Upper Midwest" and are used with permission from the University of Minnesota.
Timothy Craddock, Citizens Monitoring Coordinator
West Virginia Save Our Streams Program
601 57th Street, SE
Charleston, WV 25304
Office: 304-926-0499 (1040)
Mobile: 304-389-7630
E-mail: tcraddock@wvdep.org
Web Page: http://www.wvdep.org/dwwm/wvsos
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