Methods & Data Comparability Board
Purpose: To develop clear recommendations on how to define DQOs and MQOs using real-world examples from the water quality monitoring field.
| Name | State | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Wendelken, Co-Chair U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
OH |
513-569-7837 wendelken.steve@epa.gov |
| Eric Vowinkel , Co-Chair U.S. Geological Survey |
NJ |
(609) 771-3931 vowinkel@usgs.gov |
Watershed Information Strategies
Purpose: To promote goal-oriented monitoring by defining strategies for sample planning, data collection, data compilation and management, data assessment and interpretation, and information reporting.
| Name | State | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Tennant, Vice Chair ORSANCO |
OH |
(513) 231-7719 ptennant@orsanco.org |
Purpose: Work to build partnerships that foster collaboration among the many elements of the water monitoring community by supporting development of state and regional monitoring councils and promoting the importance of monitoring for decisionmaking. To take the lead, along with the Conference Planning Committee, in the development and planning of the biennial National Monitoring Conference.
| Name | State |
Phone |
|---|---|---|
| David Tucker, Chair National Association of Clean Water Agencies |
CA |
(408) 945-5311 david.tucker@sanjoseca.gov |
Purpose: To provide advice, counsel, and recommendations for the creation of a coordinated, comprehensive National Water Quality Monitoring Network, one of the recommendations of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. The development of the National Water Quality Monitoring Network is now part of the President's Ocean Action Plan. A draft National Monitoring Network Report has been provided to the Advisory Committee on Water Information for approval and further action.
| Name | State | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Spooner, Co-Chair U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
DC |
(202) 566-1174 spooner.charles@epa.gov |
| Co-Chair Vacancy -- TBD |
Former Work Groups
Watershed Components Interactions (Sunset July 2006)
Purpose: To improve the understanding and quntification of the factors that affect water quality to enable the creation of effective monitoring and remediation strategies.
This work group was chaired by Mary Ambrose, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and was sunset in July 2006.
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