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Introduction to Chemical Monitoring: The Starter’s Toolkit

Introduction to Chemical Monitoring: The Starter’s Toolkit. Julie Vastine and Nicole Vecchione Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Mission Statement.

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Introduction to Chemical Monitoring: The Starter’s Toolkit

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  1. Introduction to Chemical Monitoring: The Starter’s Toolkit Julie Vastine and Nicole Vecchione Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

  2. Mission Statement • To enhance local action for the protection and restoration of Pennsylvania watersheds by empowering communities with scientific knowledge and tools to carry out watershed assessments • To provide Dickinson College students with opportunities to participate in community-based participatory research thereby enhancing the quality of undergraduate science education, and • To strive to be the leader in volunteer monitoring in Pennsylvania and a national model for college-community partnerships

  3. The Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring educate. engage. empower.

  4. What is a Service Provider? • A Service Provider is an organization of experienced, trained, professional scientists, and policy experts who provide programmatic and scientific assistance to watershed organizations. • A Service Provider, through intensive mentoring, helps groups organize and define their goals. • Assistance is customized to each watershed group to help them to achieve watershed goals via workshops, presentations, and trainings.

  5. Pennsylvania Volunteer Monitoring • Growing Greener Grants: 2000 – 2005 $650 million • 1999 - 2001: 125 watershed groups • 2004: over 300 watershed groups

  6. How does Chemical Monitoring fit into your Monitoring Study Design? 1. What are your organizations major objectives? 10. Who will complete the tasks? 2. Why are you monitoring? 9. How will you manage & present the data? 3. How will you use the data? 8. What are your QA/QC measures? 4. What will you monitor? 7. When will you monitor? 5. How will you monitor? 6. Where will you monitor?

  7. How does Chemical Monitoring fit into your Monitoring Study Design? • What are your organizations major objectives? • Why are you monitoring? • How will you use the data collected? • What will you monitor? • How will you monitor? • Where will you monitor? • When will you monitor? • What are your Quality Control/Quality Assurance Measures? • How will you manage and present the data? • Who will complete the tasks?

  8. Connecting Data Use To Monitoring Study Design • What is your monitoring purpose? • Who are your intended data users? • The group collecting the data (Tier A) • The community/ stewardship (Tier B) • The local government (Tier C) • The State/Federal Government (Tier D) • What are your monitoring resources? QA/QC Kits!

  9. Match the Parameter with the Objective

  10. Choosing the right equipment www.lamotte.comwww.hach.com

  11. Field Kits • Advantages • Relatively inexpensive • Fairly easy to use • Good results depending on the parameter

  12. Field Kits Cont. • Disadvantages • Color perception • Time • Awkward directions • Inconsistent results – especially with low levels

  13. Types of kits available • Hach • Similar chemistry in their more expensive/ sophisticated equipment as in their monitoring kits • Directions can be difficult to understand • Waste disposal • Lamotte • Directions are very easy to understand • Have alternative kits to eliminate hazardous waste

  14. Quality Assurance/Quality ControlMaking your data count! • Internal and External QA/QC measures • Organization and Planning • Sampling and Analysis • Documentation!

  15. Internal and External QA/QC • Internal – Replicates • Performed to provide a comparison • Provides confidence in results • Cleanliness • External – Analysis with an outside Lab • Split Sampling

  16. Time to play with monitoring equipment!

  17. The Toolkit • How will you use your data • Match the parameter with the objective • Choosing the right equipment • Proper QA/QC measures • Have fun!

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