Coordinators
Monitoring Links
There are a number of resources available on the internet that may be beneficial to you as a local monitoring program coordinator. The list that follows has been divided into categories to help with organization of the page and usefulness for you. If you know of a website that would be beneficial to other local monitoring program coordinators, contact Kris Stepenuck with the link to the website.
Volunteer Stream Monitoring Programs in Wisconsin
- Milwaukee River Watershed Testing the Waters Program
- Nohr Network of Monitors
- Wisconsin Local Stream Monitoring Programs' webpage on the WAV site
- Wisconsin Rivers Educator Network
Other States' Volunteer Stream Monitoring Programs
- Alabama Water Watch
- California's Monterey Bay Sanctuary Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network
- Georgia Adopt-a-Stream
- Indiana's Hoosier Riverwatch
- IOWATER
- Kentucky Water Watch
- Maryland Save Our Streams
- Massachusetts' Water Watch Partnership
- Massachusetts' and New Hampshire's Merrimack River Volunteer Environmental Monitoring Network
- Michigan's Cooperative Monitoring Program
- Minnesota's Citizen Stream Monitoring Program
- Minnesota's Volunteer Stream Monitoring Partnership
- Missouri Stream Teams
- Montana Watercourse
- New Hampshire's Volunteer River Assessment Program
- Ohio's Scenic Rivers Program, Stream Quality Monitoring Project
- Oklahoma's Blue Thumb
- Oklahoma Water Resources Board, Oklahoma Waterwatch Program
- Pennsylvania's Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring
- Rhode Island's URI Watershed Watch
- Utah Stream Team
- Vermont's Watershed Alliance
- Virginia's Save Our Streams
- Washington's Adopt-a-Stream Foundation
- West Virginia's Save Our Streams
National Resources for Volunteer Monitoring
- American Rivers' toolkits for river conservation projects
- EPA's Volunteer Monitoring website
- EPA's Volunteer Stream Monitoring: A Methods Manual
- CSREES Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring National Faciliation Project website
Wisconsin Resources for Citizen Monitoring
- Citizen-based Monitoring website
- Citizen-based Water Monitoring (Main Page)
- Water and Environmental Analysis Laboratory at UW-Stevens Point
- River Alliance of Wisconsin
- Water and Environmental Analysis Lab at UW-Stevens Point
Parameter-specific links
Dissolved Oxygen-related websites
- General information on dissolved oxygen. Maintained by the City of Boulder, CO/USGS Water Quality Monitoring
- Hach dissolved oxygen test kit chemistry description. Maintained by the University of Arizona GLOBE Program
- Background information on chemical parameters. Maintained by Earth Force.
- Dissolved Oxygen for Fish Production. Maintained by the University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service.
Macroinvertebrate-related websites
- Aquatic Insect Interactive Verification Program
- For a listing of books with information about macroinvertebrates, go to the More About Macroinvertebrates page of this website.
- The Fisher Monk (guide to identifying mayflies for fly fishermen)
- Mayfly Identification by Dr. Corey Leonhard
- Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Identification Key for Virginia Save Our Streams' Program
- An Introduction to Benthic Macroinvertebrates for Kentucky Water Watch Program
- Leech Lab by Dr. Mark Siddall, American Museum of Natural History
- Troutnut.com
Turbidity-related websites
- Understanding turbidity in lakes, by Lake Access, an EPA EMPACT Program
- What is turbidity and why is it important?, by EPA in Volunteer Stream Monitoring: A Methods Manual