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Contact the Dip-In at:
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Web Site Updated:
June 17, 2008
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Enroll Your Monitoring Program in the Dip-In
The Dip-In is open to any program
or qualified individual in the world that monitors transparency
in rivers, streams, estuaries, lakes, or reservoirs.
The
Dip-In targets volunteer monitoring programs, since we are trying
to encourage participation in existing programs, not compete with them.
However, qualified persons who measure transparency as a
part of their profession but are not part of a volunteer program may
also participate. We
especially encourage participation in regions of the continent where
there are no volunteer monitoring programs.
The
Dip-In encourages the use of a Secchi disk, but we encourage the
development of transparency programs in sites such as rivers and
estuaries where the Secchi disk cannot be used.
If your program uses a turbidity tube, a turbidity
meter, or a black Secchi disk instead of a regular Secchi
disk, your volunteers can add their information on our web entry form.
We
encourage programs to use the Dip-In to introduce environmental
monitoring to the Public, but we also use this data for scientific
purposes. If
non-trained individuals take readings, please report only values
taken by a trained supervisor.
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you have to do to have your volunteers participate is to
enroll your program at our enrollment page.
Be
sure to state how many volunteers in your program.
We will send the Dip-In questionnaire and a
summary of the previous year's results to all your
volunteers, whether or not they have participated in the past.
If
you send us mailing labels, we will mail the questionnaires
directly to your volunteers.
This is the least expensive way for us and takes the
least amount of your time.
You
can also choose to distribute the questionnaires yourself,
however, we cannot provide postage for the questionnaires.
We do not keep addresses of your volunteers
so that their privacy is insured.
We also will not mail anything to your volunteers without
labels from you. However,
all of the data returned to us by the volunteers is available to
you and to others.
It
is difficult to find locations on rivers and estuaries.
If you have some system by which we could identify the site
where your volunteers sample, please send them to us. A map with the site locations and site numbers would be
helpful.
Even
if you can’t participate in the Dip-In, we will keep you
informed about the Dip-In if you enroll your program.
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If you
have received Dip-In material in the past, you do not need to
enroll. You are already on our mailing list through your
program.
If you are already a member of a monitoring program and
did not receive Dip-In material last year, please first contact
your program coordinator and urge them to have your group
participate in the Dip-In.
If the monitoring program in which you participate is not
listed on the Dip-In Participants Page, then we would invite
your program to join the Dip-In. Please contact your program
coordinator to suggest participation or contact
us for more information.
If you are not a member of a monitoring program, and
would like to volunteer to help monitor our environment, please
look at:
If there is no existing volunteer monitoring program in
your area, you are welcome to enroll as an individual.
If you do not live in the United States or Canada, you are
welcome to enroll as well, but you must enter your data online
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If
you have any questions regarding whether or not you need to be on
our mailing list, please contact us at DipIn@kent.edu
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