Citizen Science: Monitoring local water quality - link info for DIY measurement
Jonathan Cline
And in fact there is a larger push to perform simpler (non-bacto) DIY testing (with kits available) on a larger scale at
http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/ - This may have been mentioned here before:
"World Water Monitoring Challenge™ (WWMC) is an international education and outreach program that builds public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world by engaging citizens to conduct basic monitoring of their local waterbodies. .... LaMotte will accept bulk orders of 10 or more kits and ship at the reduced rate of US $1.85 per Basic Kit and US $6.50 per Classroom Kit shipping and handling. The regular rates are US $8.10 and US $10.00 via Priority Mail. "
As for state-sponsored citizen science, California has significant info on what/where/how to do citizen-science water quality testing:
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http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/cwt_volunteer.shtml
Clean Water Team (CWT) – Citizen Monitoring
WELCOME!
Our Mission … “To build and support the State’s Watersheds’ Stewardship through citizen monitoring in order to reduce and prevent water pollution.”
Citizen Monitoring
Citizen monitoring is any water quality monitoring activity that
relies in whole or in part on participation by volunteers, students or
non-paid staff.
A variety of organizations may be involved in citizen monitoring
projects, including but not limited to non-profit groups, Resource
Conservation Districts
(RCDs), Coordinated Resource Management and Planning (CRMP) groups,
local government agencies, and colleges.
About the Clean Water Team
"The Clean Water Team (CWT) is the citizen monitoring program of the
State Water Resources Control Board. The CWT is a part of the Surface
Water Ambient
Monitoring Program (SWAMP). The CWT Citizen Monitoring
Coordinator(s) work statewide in order to provide technical assistance
and guidance documents,
training, QA/QC support, temporary loans of equipment and
communication to citizen monitoring programs and watershed stewardship
organizations."
General Information on Citizen Monitoring
"Learn more about citizen monitoring in California and how you can become involved with improving and protecting surface water quality as a citizen scientist." http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/cwt_general_mon.shtml
http://batchgeo.com/map/2012cwtmap
"This map was created by the Clean Water Team to assist the public in locating citizen monitoring programs so that they can become involved in water quality monitoring and watershed stewardship (exclusive of educational programs). We also hope that this map will help facilitate networking and collaborations among water monitoring programs."
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Finally, scroll all the way down to the "Bacteria
(Pathogen Indicators)" section in the Field Guides for a pretty good summary of sampling, plating and culturing protocols, "Introduction to Fecal Indicator Bacteria (FIB) IDEXX Methodologies"... http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/cwt_guidance.shtml
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Nathan McCorkle
priced to only get "pH, DO, turbidity and temperature" as results.
https://www.lamotteco.com/secure/wwmday/
Have you seen any good prices on HPLC -like tests? To check for
chemical contamination.
On Sep 20, 2012 2:33 AM, "Jonathan Cline" <jnc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Suddenly very interested in what bacto baddies are growing in the ocean I play in (California coast), I ran across several DIY projects on citizen monitoring for bacterial counts in local rivers/beaches/etc.
>
> And in fact there is a larger push to perform simpler (non-bacto) DIY testing (with kits available) on a larger scale at
> http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/ - This may have been mentioned here before:
> "World Water Monitoring Challenge™ (WWMC) is an international education and outreach program that builds public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world by engaging citizens to conduct basic monitoring of their local waterbodies. .... LaMotte will accept bulk orders of 10 or more kits and ship at the reduced rate of US $1.85 per Basic Kit and US $6.50 per Classroom Kit shipping and handling. The regular rates are US $8.10 and US $10.00 via Priority Mail. "
>
>
> As for state-sponsored citizen science, California has significant info on what/where/how to do citizen-science water quality testing:
>
>
> -- begin quote --
>
> http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/cwt_volunteer.shtml
>
>
> Clean Water Team (CWT) – Citizen Monitoring
>
>
> Our Mission … “To build and support the State’s Watersheds’ Stewardship through citizen monitoring in order to reduce and prevent water pollution.”
>
>
>
>
> Citizen Monitoring
> Citizen monitoring is any water quality monitoring activity that relies in whole or in part on participation by volunteers, students or non-paid staff. A variety of organizations may be involved in citizen monitoring projects, including but not limited to non-profit groups, Resource Conservation Districts (RCDs), Coordinated Resource Management and Planning (CRMP) groups, local government agencies, and colleges.
>
> About the Clean Water Team
> "The Clean Water Team (CWT) is the citizen monitoring program of the State Water Resources Control Board. The CWT is a part of the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP). The CWT Citizen Monitoring Coordinator(s) work statewide in order to provide technical assistance and guidance documents, training, QA/QC support, temporary loans of equipment and communication to citizen monitoring programs and watershed stewardship organizations."
>
> General Information on Citizen Monitoring
> "Learn more about citizen monitoring in California and how you can become involved with improving and protecting surface water quality as a citizen scientist." http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/cwt_general_mon.shtml
>
>
>
> http://batchgeo.com/map/2012cwtmap
>
> "This map was created by the Clean Water Team to assist the public in locating citizen monitoring programs so that they can become involved in water quality monitoring and watershed stewardship (exclusive of educational programs). We also hope that this map will help facilitate networking and collaborations among water monitoring programs."
>
>
> -- end quote --
>
>
> Finally, scroll all the way down to the "Bacteria (Pathogen Indicators)" section in the Field Guides for a pretty good summary of sampling, plating and culturing protocols, "Introduction to Fecal Indicator Bacteria (FIB) IDEXX Methodologies"... http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/cwt_guidance.shtml
>
> I'll get kitted up and post how it goes.
>
>
> ## Jonathan Cline
> ## jcl...@ieee.org
> ## Mobile: +1-805-617-0223
> ########################
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Jason Bobe
Suddenly very interested in what bacto baddies are growing in the ocean I play in (California coast), I ran across several DIY projects on citizen monitoring for bacterial counts in local rivers/beaches/etc.
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