Monitoring - Monitoring Methods

Updated 10/12/2006

(1) Aquatic

The Wetlands Division of EPA’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds site provides introduction to why and how people monitor wetlands. The following sites also include handbooks and manuals that offer detailed information on wetlands monitoring for the layperson.

• A volunteer’s guide for documenting quality assurance methods, project organization, goals and objectives with examples and references:

http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/volunteer/qappcovr.htm

• Estuary monitoring methods:

http://www.epa.gov/owow/estuaries/monitor/

• Lake monitoring methods:

http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/lakevm.html

• Stream monitoring methods:

http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/volunteer/stream/

• An introduction and resource guide for wetlandmonitoring:

http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/monitor/volmonitor.html

• Methods, case studies, glossary, and publications for wetlands bioassessment:

http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/bawwg/

• Sampling Amphibians in Lentic Habitats. D.H. Olson, W.P. Leonard, and R.B. Bury, editors. Northwest Fauna Number 4. Society for Northwestern Vertebrate, Biology, 1997, 134 pp.

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