• About the National Water Quality Monitoring Council
• From Reno to Austin
• The Track Meet (a road map to the conference)
• Conference agenda (pdf file)
  

TRACK A

Public Awareness & Stakeholder Outreach

Building Public Awareness While Collecting Data: Volunteer Monitoring Programs

• Minnesota Methods for Analyzing, Applying and Disseminating Volunteer Lake Monitoring Data, Jennifer Klang
• Workshops for Leaders of Volunteer Estuary Monitoring Programs, Ron Ohrel
• Biological Monitoring:  Technical Training for Citizen Volunteers, Kristen Travers
• Oregon’s Volunteer Monitoring Program, Karen Williams

Stakeholder Outreach: Volunteer Monitoring, Community Action and Restoration

• Community Based Water Monitoring and Beyond, A Case Study:  Pennsylvania, Diane Wilson
• Lessons Learned and New Challenges Raised While Turning Public Awareness into Action-Ten Case Studies Regarding Public Involvement in Water Quality Protection and Improvement, Barb Horn
• An Innovative and Educational Community-Based Sampling Program for Evaluating Rural Well Water Quality, Steve Wilson
  

TRACK B

Institutional Collaboration

Collaborative NPS Projects

• Problems in Non-point Source BMP Monitoring:  The Greater Good and Others, Niles L. Primrose
• Monitoring the Effects of Implementing Best Management Practices in a Rural Watershed in North-Central Florida, Rick Copeland

Collaborative Watershed Monitoring and Management Projects

• Monitoring Dance Fundamentals:  No Partner, Can’t Dance, Barry Long

Collaborative Volunteer and Marine-based Monitoring Projects

• The Maine Phytoplankton Monitoring Program, Esperanza Stancioff
• Bacteria Study on the Tres Palacios River: A Cooperative Water Quality Monitoring Study on the Texas Gulf Coast, Alicia Reinmund and Cathy Porter
  

Data Management & Accessibility

TRACK D

Water Information Strategies

Methods and Data Comparability

Monitoring Interactions Among Watershed Components

• Communicating Monitoring Results that People Can Understand, Abby Markowitz
• Providing Water Quality Data for Research, Decision-Making, and Education, Karen Brettschneider 
• The New England Regional Monitoring Collaborative, Elizabeth Herron
• The Wide World of Volunteer Monitoring, Linda T. Green
• Coordinating Water Quality Monitoring — Lessons Learned, Charles A. Peters and Emery T. Cleaves
• Determining and Documenting the Suitability of Analytical Procedures Used for Analysis of Environmental Samples, Jerry L. Parr
  

• Gabion Vegetation: An Experiment in Ecological Restoration, Mike Lyday and Todd McKane
• Identifying Sediment Contamination Sources in Watersheds of Austin, TX, Ellen Geismar
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• Using the Transparency Tube in Minnesota's New Citizen Stream-Monitoring Program, Jesse Anderson
• Radium in Maryland Coastal Plain Groundwater: An Emerging Issue Resulting from a Multi-Agency Study of Carcinogens in Well Water, David Bolton
• The Kentucky Interagency Groundwater Monitoring Network and the Kentucky Division of Water and Groundwater Monitoring Program, James Webb
• Information Needs for Dutch National Policy Evaluation, Joseph G. Timmerman
• Nitrate Analysis at Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, Connie Lance
• The Michigan Source Water Assessment Program--Surface Water Supplies, Michael Sweat
• Design of a Surface-Water-Quality Monitoring Network for Michigan, Denis Healy
• Status and Trends in Surface Water Quality in Northeast Florida, Aisa Ceric
• Effects of Hydrologic Variability on Biological Assessments of Streams in Austin, TX, Mateo Scoggins
• Equipment Design and Implementation for Continuous Monitoring in an Estuary, Thomas Cluney
• Microorganisms in Re-circulatory Water Systems and Their Significance in Fouling, M.T. Pandya
  

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