Quality Assurance Project Plans - US EPA

TheVolunteerMonitor'sGuideToQualityAssur anceProjectPlansUnitedStatesEnvironmenta lProtectionAgencyOfficeofWetlands,Oceans andWatersheds4503 FEPA841-B-96-003 September1996 The volunteer Monitor s Guide toQuality AssuranceProject PlansDear Reader:Across the country, volunteers are monitoring the condition of streams, rivers, lakes,reservoirs, estuaries, coastal waters, wetlands, and wells. The number and variety of theseprojects are continually on the rise. So, too, is the complexity of the monitoring volunteersconduct and the uses of the data they of the most difficult issues facing volunteer environmental monitoring programstoday is data credibility. Potential data users are often skeptical about volunteer data -- they mayhave doubts about the goals and objectives of the Project , about how volunteers were trained,about how samples were collected, handled and stored, or about how data were analyzed andreports written.

volunteer projects are fairly small and have very small budgets--based on EPA's latest Directory of Volunteer Environmental Monitoring Programs, 4th Edition, we know that the median program size is 25 volunteers, and the median annual budget is under $5,000. However, there are also volunteer programs with over 1,000 volunteers

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