Program Parameters and Sampling Methods 



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Anne Arundel County Volunteer Monitoring Program 



pH: color comparator kit; dissolved oxygen: micro 

 Winkler titration kit. water temperature: thermometer; 

 rainfall: rain gage; clarity; secchi disc; depth: 

 secchi disc with measured line; air temperature: 

 thermometer; salinity: hydrometer; weather conditions: 

 visual observation 



Chesapeake Bay Citizen Monitoring Program 



Water and air temperature: thermometer; ph: color 

 comparator kit; clarity: secchi disc; depth: secchi 

 disc with measured line; salinity: hydrometer; dis- 

 solved oxygen: micro winkler titration kit; weather 

 conditions: visual observation; site charactenstics: 

 visual observation 



Boston Harbor Monitoring Program 



Temperature and salinity: salinity/temperature meter; 

 dissolved oxygen: dissolved oxygen meter; charity: 

 secchi disc 



Clean Ocean Action ■ Trash Attack 



Plastics, glass, and aluminum: hand gathered 



Currituck Sound/Back Bay Monit oring Program 



Dissolved oxygen: micro winkler titration kit; 

 temperature; thermometer; salinity: hydrometer; 

 clanty: secchi disc; pH: color comparator kit; tide 

 level; visual observation 



Rhode Island Salt Pond Watchers 



Bacteria: hand collected into stenle bottles and stored 

 in coolers until collected; chlorophyll a. nutrients, and 

 salinity: hand collected and filtered into bottles, then 

 frozen until collected; temperature: thermometer; 

 eelgrass disease: visual observation and index chart; 

 clarity: secchi disc; dissolved oxygen: micro winkler 

 titration kit; shoreline surveys: visual observation 



Adopt-A-Beach 



Program serves as a support program for individual 

 proiects that are monitoring a variety of parameters 

 using well established field methodologies including: 

 wetland characterization: visual observation; coliform 

 levels in shellfish: hand gathered; coliform levels in 

 water: hand gathered; epibenthic fauna: suction pump; 

 marine debns: visual observation; long-term trends in 

 bird mortality: visual observation. 



FIGURE F 1 PARAI/ETERS AND METHODS USED BY SEVERAL CITIZEN tUIONITORING 

 PROGRAMS TO COLLECT DATA AND TtHE GOALS THESE DATA ARE USED TO OBTAIN. 



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