Become a Monitor
Learn how to become a trained volunteer to monitor the conditions of your local stream, lake, estuary, or wetlands. By becoming a volunteer monitor, you will learn about water resources, provide information to decisions makers, and join a network of dedicated individuals. To learn how to become involved in a citizen water quality monitoring program in Virginia, contact: Chris French with Citizens for Water Quality at cfrench@allianceforthebay.org or Stuart Torbeck, DEQ's Water Quality Data Liaison, at charles.torbeck@deq.virginia.gov.
For more information:
Virginia Citizens for Water Quality - http://vcwq.wordpress.com/
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) - Citizen Water Quality Monitoring
http://www.deq.virginia.gov/cmonitor/homepage.html
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Volunteer Monitoring
Tools for Water Monitors
The Virginia Water Monitoring Council provides resources for all water monitors and resources specifically for volunteer monitors. The provided tools include NEMI, a free, searchable clearinghouse of methods and procedure for both regulatory and non-regulatory monitoring purposes for water, sediment, air and tissues (developed by the Methods and Data Comparability Board of the National Water Quality Monitoring Council). Links to this information and additional resources are available from the Tools for Water Monitors section.
Glossaries of Water Terms
Glossary of Water Terms (Clean Virginia Waterways) (PDF file) - http://www.longwood.edu/cleanva/images/app.glossary.pdf
Terms of Environment: Glossary, Abbreviations and Acronyms(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/
Water Science Dictionary (U.S. Geological Survey) - http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/dictionary.html
Publications
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (National Service Center for Environmental Publications--NSCEP) http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/index.htm
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS national publications) - http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/
U.S. Geological Survey (Virginia USGS publications) – http://va.water.usgs.gov/indx_pubs.htm
Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE publications) - http://pubs.ext.vt.edu
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR publications) - http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/pub_list.htm
Virginia Department of Environment (DEQ publications) - http://www.deq.virginia.gov/info/list.html
Virginia Water Monitoring Council -- Online "World Water Monitoring Day Activity Guide for Virginia"
Virginia Water Resources Research Center (VWRRC publications) – http://www.vwrrc.vt.edu/publications_main.html
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