Factsheets of the National Water Quality Monitoring Council

Council Factsheets

• Collaborative Partnership for Water Quality Monitoring (April 2008)
• A Framework for Water Quality Monitoring (March 2004)
• Supporting State and Regional Water Monitoring Councils

Work Group Factsheets

Water Information Strategies Work Group

The Water Information Strategies Workgroup is a partnership of water- quality experts drawn from federal agencies, states, tribes, municipalities, industry, universities, and private organizations. It is a sub-group of the National Water Quality Monitoring Council. The workgroup's purpose is to define and promote goal-oriented monitoring by proposing strategies for sampling, data storage and retrieval, data analysis, interpretation, and reporting in support of the evolving information needs of water-quality management.

• Water Information Strategies Work Group Factsheet: From Data to Information to Action (April 2008)

Methods and Data Comparability Board

The Methods Board is a partnership of water-quality experts from federal agencies, states, tribes, municipalities, industry, and private organizations. It is chartered under the National Water Quality Monitoring Council. The Board's challenge is to identify, examine, and recommend monitoring approaches that facilitate collaboration and yield comparable data and assessment results. Four key elements anchor the framework of the Board's efforts.

• Water Quality Data Elements for Reporting Water Quality Monitoring Results (April 2006)
• National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI) (April 2006)
• The Value of Uniform Accreditation
• The Value of Data Comparability - A White Paper developed by the Methods and Data Comparability Board
• National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI)
  • Why is a National Environmental Methods Index needed? - The selection of analytic methods is a critical part of environmental monitoring program planning. A high priority recommendation of the MDCB is the development of a compendium of method summaries to support monitoring program planning. The proposed National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI) will allow rapid communication and comparison of methods, thus ensuring that the consideration and reconsideration of analytic methods is a more active part of the planning and implementation of programs.
    • Accreditation of Laboratory and Field Activities for Water-Quality Monitoring
• Across the Board -- A Newsletter of the Methods and Data Comparability Board
  

Collaboration and Outreach Work Group

The Collaboration and Outreach Workgroup works to build partnerships that foster collaboration among the many elements of the water monitoring community by supporting development of state and regional monitoring councils and promoting the importance of monitoring for decisionmaking. The Collaboration and Outreach Work Group takes the lead, along with the Conference Planning Committee, in the development and planning of the biennial National Monitoring Conference.

• Accomplishing More Together (April 2008)

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
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