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.

Age of Volunteer Lake Monitoring Programs

Ammonia Monitoring

Aquatic Invasive Species Monitoring

Aquatic Plant Identification Guides

California Watershed Assessment Manual

Chemical Safety and Procedures

Creating a Volunteer Monitoring Program

Credible Data Laws

Cutting Costs and Services Without Reducing Support

Data Presentation Suggestions for Visual/Habitat Surveys

Data Sharing Policies

Data Storage, Retrieval, and Management

Documenting Site Location

DPI and Digital Photos

Educational Invasives Funding

Enterrocci Monitoring

Flow Meters

Flow Monitoring

Freeware Spreadsheets

Getting Volunteers to Turn in Their Data

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

Lakeshore Value

Liability Insurance for Volunteers

Macroinvertebrate Guides

Macroinvertebrate Image Sources

Macroinvertebrate Sampling in Small Streams - How To Not Harm Them

Motivating Volunteers

Moving Volunteers to the Next Level

Naming Streams

New Monitoring Program Development Advice

Nitrogen-related Fact Sheets

Nitrogen Testing Kits and Probes

Online Data Entry By Volunteers

Online databases - Cost vs. benefits of them

Photo Libraries

Preservative

Providing Data To Volunteers

Quality Assurance Project Plan templates

Relating Biological Metrics to Stressors

Reproducing Volunteer Monitor newsletter articles

Report Examples

Road Salt Accumulation Studies

Secchi Discs

Service Provider Network

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

Spanish Macroinvertebrate Identification Key

Stream Aquarium

Stream Debris Survey Protocols

STORET and Volunteer Monitoring

Stormwater Monitoring

Success Stories

Test Kit Waste

Total Dissolved Solids Meters

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

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