Methods and Data Comparability Board

Publications

NEMI

National Environmental Methods Index (Fact sheet, 2006)
National Environmental Methods Index (Fact sheet, MDCB 2003)
The National Environmental Methods Index as a Tool to Achieve Methods Comparability: American Water Works Association - Water Quality Technology Conference, Nashville, TN, Nov. 2001 (Keith, L., Sullivan, D., Boiani, J., Brass, H., and Peters, C., 2001)

Water Quality Data Elements

Accreditation

Accreditation of Laboratory and Field Activites for Water Quality Monitoring (Fact sheet, MDCB 2003)
Determining and Documenting the Suitability of Analytical Procedures Used for Analysis of Environmental Samples: NWQMC National Monitoring Conference 2000, Austin, TX (Parr, J., 2000)
The Value of Uniform Accreditation: a white paper developed by the Methods and Data Comparability Board

Biology

Determining the Comparability of Bio-assessment methods and their results: NWQMC National Monitoring Conference 1998, Reno, NV. (Diamond, J.M., J.B. Stribling, and Yoder, C., 1998)
Characterizing and comparing bioassessment approaches and their results: A perspective: J. North American Benthological Society 15:713-727. (Diamond, J.M., J.B. Stribling, and M.T. Barbour, 1996)

Performance-based Systems and Nutrients

Method Verification Within a Performance-Based System Framework: Pilot Study using Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) Methods (Diamond, J., Eaton, A., Dunn, R., Annis, C., Vitale, R., and Brass, H.) Sept. 2004 draft version 4.4.3
The DQO/MQO Process for comparability in monitoring: Nitrate as an example - DRAFT -- DO NOT CITE (Alben, K., Diamond, J., Keith, L., and Patton, C.) Feb. 2005 draft
Towards a Definition of Performance- Based Laboratory Methods - National Water Quality Monitoring Council Technical Report 01-02 (Diamond, J., Eaton, A., Annis, C., Brass, H., Keith, L., Strong, A., McChesney, D., and Shockey, M., 2001)
Reservoir dogs and performance-based systems: J. Environ. Testing and Analysis, 8: 18-19. (Eaton, A. and Diamond, J., 1999)
Performance Based Systems (PBMS) - The Methods and Data Comparability Board Approach: 15th Annual WTQA Conference, Washington, DC, July 1999. (Eaton, A., 1999)
Performance Based Methods Systems, NWQMC National Monitoring Conference 1998, Reno, NV. (Strong, A., 1998)

General Overview

The Value of Data Comparability (Fact sheet, MDCB 2003)
AWRA IMPACT, Sept. 2003: Seeking a Common Framework for Water Quality Monitoring: Water Resources IMPACT, American Water Resources Association (AWRA), v. 5, no. 5, Sept. 2003. (Ward, R.C., and Peters, C.A., eds.)
National Methods and Data Comparability Board: Collaboration and Comparability (Fact sheet, MDCB 2002)
Methods and Data Comparability Board (“the Board”-- never “Bored”) - overview Powerpoint presentation (2001)
United States Water Quality Methods and Data Comparability Board: Creating a framework for collaboration and comparability. in Proceedings of Monitoring Tailor-made III, September 25 - 28, 2000, Nunspeet, the Netherlands (Peters, C.A., Brass, H., Diamond, J., 2000)
Activities of the Interagency Methods and Data Comparability Board: Proceedings of the American Water Works Association, Water Quality Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah (Brass, H.J., Ardourel, H., Diamond, J., Eaton, A., Keith, L., Peters, C., 2000)
Objectives and Activities of the National Water Monitoring Council: International Conference of the Israel Society for Ecology and Environmental Quality Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel. (Brass, H., Spooner, C., Klein, J.M., and Shockey, M., 1999)
The Methods and Data Comparability Board: Collaboration and Comparability: American Water Works Association - Water Quality Technology Conference, Tampa, FL, Nov 1999. (Brass, H., 1999)

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