Links below have been suggested by workshop instructors and participants. To help you make connections, names have been included.  Contact info for these folks can be found on the People page.

Also use the links on the logos at the bottom of this page.

MONITORING PROGRAM LINKS

NIFA Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Facilitation Project

• Web site with lots of resources:  www.usawaterquality.org/volunteer/

• Electronic list serve for Extension CSREESvolmon@uwex.edu

• Elizabeth Herron, University of Rhode Island is part of this project team.

Oregon Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring

• MSN site set up by Steve Hanson, Oregon DEQ--chat and share here!

•  groups.msn.com/OregonVolunteerWaterQualityMonitoring/_whatsnew.msnw

Washington State Volunteer Monitoring Website

• www.fish.washington.edu/naturemapping/water/index.html

• Online data entry forms to input data into

• Brief modules describing each of the monitoring parameters

• Ability to upload and display pictures submitted

Clark County Washington Public Works Volunteer Monitoring

• www.co.clark.wa.us/water-resources/monitoring/volunteer.html

• Jason Wolf and Ron Wierenga who participated in the workshop on Thursday are with this program.

• Jason wrote: List us as a resource for folks who want to start a volunteer program and have questions since we've got one going and have gone through some of the growing pains.

Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN)

• national GREEN web: www.green.org/

• Program supporting School-based water monitoring projects

• Anne Mills (workshop participant 2003 & 2004) coordinates the South Sound GREEN project in Olympia WA.

EPA’s Watershed Academy

• www.epa.gov/watertrain/monitoring/

• Online training program has a module on Water Quality Monitoring

World Water Monitoring Day

• http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/

MACROINVERTEBRATE MONITORING LINKS

• See the handout prepared by Sharon Collman (PDF) (MSWord)

OTHER WATER QUALITY PROGRAM LINKS

• NIFA Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Program www.pnwwaterweb.com (many of us--see people page)

• Alaska Water and Environmental Research Center www.uaf.edu/water

• Idaho Water Resources Research Institute www.uidaho.edu/rsrch/iwrri

• Oregon Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability http://cwest.orst.edu

• State of Washington Water Research Center www.swwrc.wsu.edu  (Michael Barber is director)

• OSU Watershed Extension seagrant.oregonstate.edu/wsep (Beth Lambert is on this team)

• OSU Well Water Program   wellwater.oregonstate.edu  (Gail Andrews is coordinator)

• WSU Extension Water Resources   http://wawater.wsu.edu/  (Bob Simmons coordinates)

• Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board  www.oweb.state.or.us

MORE WATER QUALITY LINKS

• North Puget Sound Ecological Characterization   nwic-research.org/npsec/npsec.htm (Michael Cochrane's site)

• Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds  www.oregon-plan.org

• Oregon Stream*A*Syst Stream*A*Syst An assessment tool for streamside landowners (Gail Andrews authored)

• Coastal Landscape Analysis and Modeling Study (CLAMS) www.fsl.orst.edu/clams/data_index.html (Sam Chan workshop participant used to work with this program)

FUNDING RELATED LINKS

• EPA’s Catalog of Federal Funding Sources http://cfpub.epa.gov/fedfund/

• Idaho Grants http://www.fundsnetservices.com/idaho.htm

• Oregon Grantmakers http://www.fundsnetservices.com/oregon.htm

• Washington State Grantmakers http://www.fundsnetservices.com/washignt.htm

• Alaska Community Foundations http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_comm/comm_ak.html

• www.IndependentSector.org (for cost-share value of volunteer time)

WORKSHOP FACILITY

• Canby Grove Conference Center www.canbygrove.com