Select One of the Following:
  Enrolling a New Program or Individual          
  Updating an Existing Program: 

• If you are enrolling for the first time, please fill out all the information asked for.  Please indicate if you want to be listed on our Participating Programs Page.

• If you are updating information, you only need to add the required identifying information and updates.  Please include your Dip-In ID number so that we can verify the accuracy of the information.  If you are not sure what your number is, write DipIn@kent.edu

If already enrolled, please enter your Secchi Dip-In Program ID Number:  

First Name:    Last Name (Required):  

Organization (if different from Program):

Address:

Address:

City:        

State or Province:       

Zip Code or Postal Code:

CountRy:                 

Day-time Phone:     

FAX:                      

Email Address (Required):           Type "None" if you do not have e-mail

Your Program Web Page:

  I want to list my name and contact information on the Programs Page as a Volunteer Monitoring Program
  Do not list my name and contact information on the Programs Page

Register for Dip-In 2006

Because of funding cutbacks, we will not be able to send questionnaires for the 2006 Dip-In to your volunteers.  However, we would appreciate it if you would let us know if you will be participating

 I will have my volunteers participate in this year's Secchi Dip-In.  Approximately   volunteers may participate.

 I will not participate this year

Assuring Quality Data

It is important that the Dip-In data is of sufficient quality that it can be used in scientific studies and by agencies.  Quality data depends on many things, but training certainly contributes to the production of quality data.  In order to have some idea of how much training is given volunteers in contributing programs, would you please answer the following?

Is your data entered into STORET, the Federal Environmental Database?   Yes   No   I don't know
          See  http://www.epa.gov/storet/ for more information on STORET

Does your program have a Federally approved Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP)?   Yes   No   I don't know
          See http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/volunteer/qappcovr.htm for an explanation of a Volunteer QAPP

Does your program have written instructions for the volunteers for each test they perform?Yes   No   I don't know

Does your program conduct training sessions for each volunteer?  Yes   No   I don't know

Please describe nature of the training that each volunteer receives.

Does your program conduct re-training or field quality assurance examinations?   Yes   No   I don't know

Please describe how your program assures quality data

Please tell us more about you and your monitoring program (Please fill in if you have not done so before)

  I am a coordinator of an organized Volunteer Monitoring Program
      (We define a volunteer program as involving two or more persons that routinely monitor a waterbody on a volunteer basis).

      If you coordinate a monitoring program, please answer the next two questions

              Number of volunteers in your program

            At what level does your program monitor?
                 Multiple State/Province
                Statewide/Province-wide
                Regional (within state or province)
                County or multiple waterbodies in local region
                Single Waterbody (such as a Lake Association)

I am a member, but not the coordinator, of an existing Volunteer Monitoring Program.  I would like to receive information about the Secchi Dip-In directly.
                   The name of the volunteer program  of which I am member: 

  I am participating in the Dip-In as a member of an established professional monitoring program (Agency, County, or City monitoring program) or a professional program that monitors routinely as a part of a grant or project.

I am not a member of an organized Volunteer Monitoring Program.  However, I will submit data to the Secchi Dip-In..

  I will be involving a class or group in the Dip-In

Elementary (K-6)
Middle School (6-9)
High School (9-12)
College
Other organization (Boy Scouts, 4-H, etc.)

I do not monitor but am interested in being kept informed about the Dip-In.

My relationship to monitoring is not described above:

          Please describe:

Please feel free to elaborate about your program, its geographic extent, its members, or anything else that you think defines what you do:

Sometimes people enroll as a local volunteer monitoring organization, but they send the data to a state or regional volunteer monitoring program.  We are happy to send reports to you as a  local monitoring program or individual, but we need to know more about who is ultimately receiving this data.  If you are sending the information from your local monitoring program to another monitoring program, please name them and explain the relationship between your groups.

Other Information We Could Collect (Please fill in if you have not done so before)

The Secchi Dip-In is looking for funding to expand the scope of what data is collected during the Dip-In.  If funding were found, would you and your volunteers be interested in collecting additional data besides transparency?

  Yes   No

Would you help us decide what data could be reliably collected by trained volunteers by checking all the tests below that apply to your program.

 What Chemical/Physical data do you currently collect?

What Biological tests do you already measure.

Are there other tests not mentioned above that you measure?  Please enter below

Please press the Submit button to enter the data.