Organisation: Environment Agency
Location: National
Type: Technical Support & Training
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This training course was developed to teach catchment partnerships how to access, query and analyse data from OpenWIMS, the EA’s Water Quality Archive, and how to supplement this data with locally-derived citizen science or community monitoring data.
Sessions:
2. Building more complex spatial queries and mapping results
Cycle 2 phosphate standards vary in each waterbody, depending on altitude and alkalinity. this calculator helps you work out the standard for your river, so that you can plot this against phosphate measurements.
PDF detailing the various WFD standards, including water chemistry standards.
Exercise taking you through how to use the Water Quality Sampling Points Finder to select and download a subset of points for your catchment, and then use the OpenWIMS Batch Query Constructor to write custom queries
3. Continuous vs regular vs spot sampling – what difference does it make?
paper by Peter Lloyd exploring the different information which can be derived from continuous versus spot sampling downstream of sewage discharges
4. Water quality spot testing for targeting catchment interventions
5. Creating a monitoring plan as part of a catchment plan
Develop a collaborative water quality monitoring strategy for your catchment
The related resources below provide further support on water quality monitoring.
Water Quality Monitoring: Practical guidance for CaBA partnerships interested in designing and managing a water quality monitoring programme. Includes a summary of monitoring equipment, data analysis and visualisation ideas, sampling protocols and advice for FIO monitoring and guidance on planning your strategy, engaging volunteers and resourcing.
Citizen Science: Further guidance specific to citizen science initiatives including a collection of useful links, contacts, technical references and case studies which other CaBA partnerships have used and shared.