NAWQA FY2015 Work Plan Guidance

FY2015 Work Plan Guidance General Information

• FY2015 Work Plan Guidance Memo
• FY2015 Work Plan Guidance Matrix
• FY2015 Work Plan Guidance Targets
• FY2015 WSC Contacts
• Update log for FY2015 WPG Homepage

FY2015 Work Plan Guidance Table of Contents

NAWQA PROGRAM COMPONENTS

I. Groundwater Assessment

   A. Status and Trends (S&T)

1. FY2015 GW S&T Work Plan
2. FY2015 GW S&T Design
3. Cycle 3 GWPlan–shows number of planned samples per network
4. Optional GW S&T worksheets to budget for different types of GW networks. Totals can be transferred to FY15.WPG.budget.Template 140324.xlsx

  B. Modeling and Mapping (M&M)

1. FY2015 GW M&M Work Plan

II. Surface Water (SW) Assessment

  A. National Fixed Site Network (NFSN) [Includes National Monitoring and Status Assessment (NMSA), National Stream Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN), & National Monitoring Network (NMN)]

1. FY2015 NFSN Work Plan Guidance
2. FY2015 NFSN Budget Guidance
3. FY2015 NFSN Design
4. SWPLAN
     - NFSN Chem Sampling
     - NFSN Annual Eco Sampling
     - Sample counts, Sample frequency, and Definitions

  B. Regional Stream Quality Assessment (RSQA)

  C. Surface Water Trends

1. FY2015 SW Trends Team Work Plan Guidance

  D. Surface Water Modeling

1. FY2015 SW Modeling Team Work Plan Guidance

III. Hydrologic Systems

  A. Hydrologic Systems Team

  B. Integrated Watershed Study

1. FY2015 IWS Team Work Plan Guidance

V. Budget Documents

1. Start Here
2. Requested SC Allocations
3. SC Staffing Summary & SC Budget Summary
4. GW S&T Staffing & GW S&T Budget
5. GW M&M Staffing & GW M&M Budget
6. NMSA Staffing & NMSA Budget
7. NASQAN Staffing & NASQAN Budget
8. NMN Staffing & NMN Budget
9. SW RSQA Staffing & SW RSQA Budget
10. SW Trends Staffing & SW Trends Budget
11. SW Modeling Staffing & SW Modeling Budget
12. HST Staffing & HST Budget
13. IWS Staffing & IWS Budget
14. Training
15. Other Component Staffing & Other Component Budget

Work Plan Distribution

Lotus Alias: GS-W NAWQA Annual.WP.Distribution

Completed Science Center (SC) Work Plan Package should contain files requested in the Work Plan Guidance matrix. SC's having a "WP" in their respective columns, need to provide responses to the specific requests. In submitting work plan files, please use the following naming conventions when submitting files:

SWPLAN (file updated and renamed FY14.SC.SWPLAN.yymmdd.xls)

Please submit files to the NAWQA WPG Share Point url: https://collaboration.usgs.gov/wg/nawqa/HQwpg/SitePages/Home.aspx