national water quality monitoring network design inventory activities
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3 Inventory Activities Goal: Inventory existing monitoring to allow the Design Workgroup to: Define what should be adopted as a part of the Network Define what needs to be added to build the Network More coverage More uniform procedures Better data accessTRANSCRIPT
National Water Quality Monitoring NetworkDesign
Inventory Activities
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Inventory Workgroup Jerad Bales USGS Valerie Connor CA State Water Resources Control Board Joseph J. Delfino University of Florida Charles Dvorsky Texas Carlton Haywood Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin Dan Hoover University of Hawaii Letise Houser University of Delaware Robin S. Knox Water Quality Consulting, Inc. Seth Makepeace CSKT Hydrologist Ed Santoro DRBC Peter L. Sattler Interstate Environmental Commission Joe Schubauer-Berigan EPA Derek Smithee ASIWPCA Charles Spooner EPA Becky Weidman NEIWPCC Tamim Younos Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marjorie Ernst NOAA
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Inventory Activities
Goal: Inventory existing monitoring to allow the Design Workgroup to:Define what should be adopted as a part of the
NetworkDefine what needs to be added to build the Network
More coverage More uniform procedures Better data access
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Inventory Activities
Goal: Inventory existing monitoring to allow the Steering Committee to:Lay the groundwork for addressing other
issues: A process of “affiliation” with the Network Future reports of the Network’s status
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The Ideal Inventory Covers monitoring that spans freshwater,
coastal and marine resources Structured to cover four dimensions:
Ownership Location Content (and timing) Procedures (and approach)
Prioritized Data Collections: Collects data that are useful, but not burdensome to
produce Illustrates thoroughness, but will never be complete
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Ways to Find Monitoring Programs
By OwnershipBy Location
By Procedures
By Content
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Find ThemBy Ownership
Inventories emphasizing program ownership find the large, well established agency efforts
Location
ProceduresContent
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Find Them By Content
Programs that stress specific content, specific media, or specific purposes. These are often associated with research.
Ownership
Location
Procedures
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Inventories based on common procedures focus on users of shared data systems, users of specialized instruments, or practitioners of specific approaches
By Their Use of Common Procedures
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By Location
Inventories by location stress diverse regional programs
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By Location
Location reveals small but important examples of
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Location-Based Case Studies
NW Atlantic Coastal Monitoring Consortium Chesapeake Bay Program Gulf of Mexico/ Mississippi Watershed Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring
Partnership
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Locational inventories can also focus on different zones, or levels
Location
The Inventory Roadmap
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The Inventory Roadmap Workgroup Priorities – A Tiered Approach
Focuses first using Existing inventories Ownership - Major programs Locations - Case Studies
Then focus on location of sites Then focus on
Constituents monitored Procedures
Metadata Data access
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The Status Today Draft Inventory Format
Delaware River Basin Colorado and other State/Regional Water monitoring council Inventories Monitoring Council NOAA
Existing inventories State monitoring programs
Pope Report ASIWPCA Survey
Long Island Sound NOAA
Planned surveys National Estuary Programs
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Where to stop?
We can’t cover everything We don’t want to collect data we don’t use
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The Roadmap to the Future
We believe that a Registry of Monitoring Programs will be a feature of the new Network Perhaps as a part of the process of “affiliation” with
the Network Our Inventories can help format the Registry Network systems can help assemble data them Continuing inventories will support future reports of
the Network’s status
Inventory Activities
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