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SalmonWeb provides many ways to participate and use this web site:
Puget Sound Lowlands - Field Sampling Protocol - IBI
Oregon - Stream Macroinvertebrate Protocol - DRAFT, Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds
Quality Assurance procedures provide guidance for collecting high quality data. It is important to collect data using standardized protocols and to formalize procedures that assure the representativeness of the data. SalmonWeb encourages monitoring groups to write a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) before collecting any samples.
According to the Washington State Department of Ecology's guidelines for describing data quality, SalmonWeb participants can achieve a Level 3 of data quality. Level 3 assumes that a formal Quality Assurance plan is written and followed, volunteers use a standardized monitoring protocol and identify benthic macroinvertebrates to the Family level of taxonomy, and that volunteers are trained in an established volunteer monitoring program.
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29-Jun-2001 |