The Water Quality Monitoring Collaboration Network (WQMCN) is a voluntary monthly Webinar that allows members of the monitoring community to network and exchange information and ideas on topic of interest. The Webinar format, content, and topics of interest will vary in response to input from participants. Sessions are planned to share technical and support tools for monitoring, assessment and reporting; to encourage discussion on common concerns like information management and program development; and to provide a forum for networking and collaboration.
It is envisioned that the Collaboration Network will help support a state framework to coordinate consistent and scientifically defensible methods and strategies for improving water quality monitoring, assessment, and reporting.
Participants
The following regional and citizen monitoring efforts currently participate in this collaborative effort
Monthly Webinars
WebEx enabled teleconference sessions are held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the following dates:
2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009
- 2013
- September 19, 2013 - State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection's Monitoring Study Group Overview
- June 20, 2013 - Extent and Magnitude of Eutrophication in Southern California Bight Estuaries: Results of the Bight ‘08 Regional Survey
- May 9, 2013 Causal Assessments in Streams and the CADDIS Approach
- April 25, 2013 Identification to subfamily and tribe of Chironomidae larvae in California
- March 14, 2013 Measurement Quality Objectives Update, SWAMP-Comparability
- Postponed
- February 14, 2013 Monitoring for CECs in Aquatic Ecosystems
- January 24, 2013 San Diego Coastkeeper: Citizen Scientists Watching the Waters of America’s Finest City
- 2012
- November 8, 2012 The Regional Monitoring Program: A Collaborative Effort Providing Water Quality Regulators in the San Francisco Bay Area with Information They Need
- October 31, 2012 Identification of Thresholds of Adverse Effect of Macroalgal Blooms on Benthic Habitat Quality of Estuarine Intertidal Flats
- October 18, 2012 The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board's Safe to Swim Program
- September 20, 2012 Advances in the Application of the USGS SPARROW Model in California
- August 16, 2012 Guidelines for taxonomic determination of Baetis adonis and Baetis tricaudatus specimens in Southern California SWAMP bioassessement samples
- August 9, 2012 (Rescheduled from July 19, 2012) Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Planning (HACCP) - Reducing the risk of spreading invasive species in natural resource activity pathways.
- June 28, 2012 Introducing the New My Water Quality Web Portal “Are Our Stream and River Ecosystems Healthy?”
- June 14, 2012 Water Quality Goals
- April 12, 2012 StreamStats: A streamflow web application
- March 15, 2012 Finding the Right Funders
- February 16, 2012
Ecological Condition Assessments of California’s Perennial Wadeable Streams: Highlights from the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program’s Perennial Streams Assessment (PSA)
- January 19, 2012 An Introduction to the Concept of Reporting Limits
- 2011
- December 8, 2011 Yurok Tribe Water Quality Monitoring Program: A Tribal Perspective on the
development of a comprehensive water quality monitoring program.
- October 27, 2011 The Stream Pollution Trends Program (SPoT)
- September 15, 2011 Integrated Watershed Management
- August 17, 2011 Monitoring Trash, TMDLs and Efforts Towards Compliance
- July 21, 2011 Health and Safety Responsibilities for Program Managers of Water Quality
Monitoring Projects
- June 16, 2011 Introduction to the National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI)
- May 19, 2011 Selecting and Working with Laboratories
- May 16, 2011 Application of the USGS SPARROW Model to Understand Nitrogen and Phosphorus Transport in
California
- March 17, 2011 Water Quality Monitoring Sensors
- February 17, 2011 Monitoring Directories- Demonstration of the Central Valley Monitoring Directory
- January 20, 2011 Introductory Mine Waste Characterization
- 2010
- November 4, 2010, Collaborations for Healthier Streams: California Watersheds and AmeriCorps Programs
- October 21, 2010, Using the California Data Exchange Network (CEDEN)
- September 29, 2010, Developing a Comprehensive Watershed-wide Monitoring Program for Surface Water. This presentation was captured at a Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board "Brown Bag Seminar".
- September 21, 2010, An Introduction to the California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM) for
California Wetlands
- September 16, 2010, Riparian Proper Functioning Condition Assessment (PFC) as a Tool to Inform Land Managers About Priorities for Addressing Water Quality
- August 12, 2010, Invasive Species Risk Assessment and Planning (ISRAP): A New Tool for Managing the Risk of Moving Aquatic Invasive Species in Natural Resource Monitoring and Management Activities
- July 22, 2010, Developing a California Whole System Report Card
- May 27, 2010, Site-specific Profiles of Fish Feminization in Surface Waters of California Indicate Multiple Causes of Estrogenic Activities
- April 21, 2010, Orange County CoastKeeper: Redefining the Realm of Citizen Monitoring
- March 24, 2010, Microbial Source Tracking (MST)
- February 24, 2010, Genetic Testing of Cyanobacteria Blooms
- January 27, 2010, Friends of Deer Creek: Linking Science, Water and People
- 2009
- December 3, 2009, Topic: Aquatic Invasive Species
- October 28, 2009, Citizen Monitoring in Watersheds Flowing to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
- September 23, 2009, Topic: Clean Water Act (CWA) & 303(d) Solicitation and Data Submission Process
- August 26, 2009, Topic: California Data Uploading and Checking System (Cal DUCS)
- July 22, 2009, Topic: California Clean Water Team
- June 24, 2009, Topic: California Water Quality Monitoring Council
Resources for More Information
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