Collaboration and Outreach Work Group

Works to build partnerships that foster collaboration and communication within the water-quality monitoring community.

National conferences: One of the main drivers for Council activities and centerpiece forum for communication and collaboration among the monitoring community is the Council’s biennial national conference. In May 2008, the 6th biennial national monitoring conference, held in Atlantic City, NJ, provided a national forum for more than 400 monitoring practitioners from all backgrounds to present improved strategies for water quality monitoring, assessment, and reporting, as well as to foster collaboration and coordination among governmental organizations, volunteers, academia, watershed and environmental groups, and the private sector. A top priority of the workgroup is to plan and host the 7th national conference in April 2010 in Denver, Colorado.
Online newsletter: Starting in 2009, a bi-annual, online newsletter—Monitoring News—will provide another forum for communication to the water community, and will highlight Council and workgroup updates, success stories and relevant topics on monitoring and assessments, related upcoming events and conferences, and grant timelines.
Support for state and regional councils: Actions are planned to develop a “How to Tool Kit” for initiating and maintaining successful councils, and to create communication forums for sharing successes and challenges among the different state and regional councils across the U.S. (currently around 17). Communication forums could include, for example, the web, cyber seminars, articles in the Council newsletter, and national conferences.

Co-Chairs

Co-Chairs	State	Contact Information
Tracy Hancock U.S. Geological Survey	VA	thancock@usgs.gov
David Tucker City of San Jose, Environmental Services Department	CA	david.tucker@sanjoseca.gov
Kim Martz, Executive Secretary U.S. Geological Survey	VA	kimmartz@usgs.gov

Meeting Minutes

Denver, Colorado - December 3, 2009
Portland, Oregon - July 21-23, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah - March 10-12, 2009
Reston, Virginia - December 9-11, 2008
West Palm Beach, Florida - October 31 to November 2, 2006
San Jose, California - December 9, 2004

Products and Plans

Factsheet: Accomplishing More Together (April 2008)

DOI :: ACWI :: What's New? :: Meetings

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