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Web Site Updated: June 09, 2008

Volunteer Monitoring Methods

• Sampling Methods (new)

• Transparency and Turbidity
     Secchi Disk
     Transparency (Turbidity) Tubes
     Horizontal Black Disks

• Algae
     Algal Chlorophyll

• Nutrients
     Phosphorus
     Nitrogen

• Temperature and Oxygen (new)

• Trophic State
     Defining Trophic State
     Trophic State Equations

• Informing the Public
     Watershed Signs
     Storm Drain Stenciling

Other Monitoring Methods Sites

      University of Rhode Island Watershed Watch
      USEPA Guides to Volunteer Monitoring
      

We frequently receive questions about volunteer methods.   This section devoted to methods and to links to other sources of information on methods.  The underlined Sections are active. 

If you would like to submit material for any of these methods, we would be happy to consider them for publication at this site.  We will help with making the material into a Web page.  If you have or know of a site that has methods that can be used by volunteers, we would be happy to link to them.