Volunteer Monitoring Groups On-Line

Are volunteer monitoring groups on line? Do they need to be? The answer is yes to both questions. Electronic mail and the World Wide Web are proving to be popular tools for a number of groups. If an organization has a question about water quality, a recent query of the term "Water Quality" on an on-line search service yielded more than 30,000 web pages that dealt with the topic. For Volunteer Monitoring in particular there were more than 2000 pages listed. A search of EPA's site alone yielded 340 documents that referenced "Volunteer Monitoring".

So you don't have the time to sort through all those pages for something useful? We have done that for you. The list below is an incomplete summary of high-quality web sites that deal directly with the field of volunteer monitoring. If your site isn't on here, let us know, we will add it!

National Volunteer Monitoring Sites


• EPA's Volunteer Monitoring Program
• Volunteer Lake Monitoring
• National Volunteer Monitoring Conference in Madison, WI
• Official Government Version of National Volunteer Monitoring Conference Events
• Volunteer Monitor (our bi-annual newsletter)
• Directory of Citizen Volunteer Monitoring Programs
• EPA Region III VM Site
• Final Report of the Intergovernmental Task Force on Monitoring Water Quality
• The Great American Secchi Dip-In
• Save Our Streams Project of the Izaak Walton League of America
• River Watchers by the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
• River Watch Network

  State Volunteer Monitoring Programs

• Minnesota's Citizen Lake-Monitoring Program (CLMP)
• Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program
• Massachusetts Water Watch Partnership
• Kansas Collaborative Research Network
• Indiana's "RIVERWATCH / CRAWDAD"
• Iowa Volunteer Water Monitoring Directory
• Missouri STREAM TEAM
• The Alliance For Aquatic Resource Monitoring, Dickinson College Environmental Studies Department
• Kentucky Water Watch Program
• Ohio's Scenic Rivers Program Stream Quality Monitoring Project (great bug pictures!)
• Mississippi Headwaters River Watch Project
• Alabama Water Watch
• Maryland's Save Our Streams Program
• North Carolina State University "Watersheds site"
• Watch Over Washington
• Texas Watch Volunteer Environmental Monitoring Program
• University of Rhode Island Watershed Watch Program (URIWW)
• Michigan Lake and Stream Association's lake Self Help Program
• Illinois EcoWatch Network.

  Local Programs

• PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY STREAM TEAMS
• Kentucky River Watershed Watch (Private-Public Partnership)

  K-12 Based Educational Programs

• Corvallis High School RIPARIAN MONITORING PROGRAM, Western Montana
• Tower Hill students working at the Brandywine River
• Crooked River Project(Northeast Ohio)
• Student Water Quality Study of Lower Wheeling Creek (excellent report layout)
• Calloway County High School, Kentucky
• "G.R.I.P." or "GSAMS, Rivers, Internet Project," Georgia
• Horizons High School Environmental Studies program Excellent student-designed on-line data management system!
• Root River 2000 Project
• Coon Rapids High School Great River Project

  Estuary Volunteer Monitoring Programs

• Estuary-Net Volunteer Monitoring: National Estuarine Research Reserve System
• San Francisco Estuary Institute San Francisco Estuary Institute
• Estuary-Net Volunteer Monitoring Project
• Tillamook Bay National Estuary Project
• Estuary Water Quality Monitoring Project
• Save The Sound Inc. Adopt A Harbor

  International Volunteer Monitoring Sites

• Streamwatch UK: Manchester Metropolitan University
• Waterwatch Victoria (AU)
• STREAMWATCH Melbourne (AU)
• New South Wales Streamwatch Program
• Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
• Project del Rio(U.S.A./Mexico)
• US-Russian EcoBridge Program

  On Line Data Entry and Retrieval Systems

• Automated data entry and retrievl system (beta test using ASP and MS Access) (KY Water Watch)
• Simple on-line reporting form that reports by E-mail (KY Water Watch)
• Indiana Student Data Entry Form (MUST SEE!)
• Students' data from wetlands on their school site.
• PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY STREAM TEAMS: STREAM SURVEY FORM
• The Vermont Rivers Project (with searchable data base)
• THE RIVERS CURRICULUM PROJECT On-Line Data Entry Form

  Other "Must See" Sites

• Determine the health of a stream with this on-line macro invertebrate test
• On-line Macroinvertebrates Key
• Other Water-Related Web Sites (our favorites)