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Question 1: Have any of you found any free software online that helps with registration?<\/a><\/p>\n

Question 2: Have any volunteer monitoring programs that created a relatively simple interactive online map that displays monitoring sites and data?<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Question 1<\/h3>\n

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:35:12 -0400
\nFrom: “Joanna A. Cornell”
\nSubject: [volmonitor] Ideas to make registration easier?<\/p>\n

Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to get some insights about how others deal with this. I coordinate many workshops and it takes a good deal of my time to respond to emails\/calls. Have any of you found any free software online that helps with registration? I\u2019d love a way for people to be able to register for a workshop \u2013 and then a computer program would automatically email them directions and add their name to a list. Ideas?<\/p>\n

Any of you use google calendar for posting of events? Your experience with it?<\/p>\n

Thanks in advance,<\/p>\n

Joanna<\/p>\n

———————–<\/p>\n

Joanna A. Cornell, Ph.D.
\nAquatic and Human Ecologist
\nNorthern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District
\n12055 Government Center Parkway, Suite 905
\nFairfax, VA 22035
\nw: 703.324.1425
\nf: 703.324.1421<\/p>\n

Responses to Question 1<\/h3>\n

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:00:06 -0600
\nFrom: Claire Foster
\nSubject: Re: [volmonitor] Ideas to make registration easier?<\/p>\n

Hi Joanna,<\/p>\n

One program that I’ve used for events in the past that has worked
\npretty well has been evite.com<\/a>. You send out an invitation (or a link
\nto the website) and then people reply whether they are coming or not.
\nYou can set it to send automatic reminders, directions, etc pretty
\neasily. Good luck in your search!<\/p>\n

Claire<\/p>\n

———————————-
\nClaire Foster
\nField Instructor
\nMcCall Outdoor Science School
\nPO Box 1025
\nMcCall ID, 83638
\nhttp:\/\/www.mossidaho.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Other sites you could use include:<\/p>\n

Doodle (http:\/\/www.doodle.com\/<\/a>)
\nGoogle Calendar (https:\/\/accounts.google.com\/ServiceLogin?service=cl&passive=1209600&continue=https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/render?tab%3Dwc&followup=https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/render?tab%3Dwc&scc=1<\/a>)
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Question 2<\/h3>\n

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:14:09 -0800
\nFrom: Eleanor Ely
\nGreetings:
\nI’m wondering if there are any volunteer monitoring programs that have created a relatively simple interactive online map that displays monitoring sites and data, and which did not require a high degree of computer programming expertise to construct. By “displaying data” I mean either directly displaying the data on the map, for example in a pop-up balloon associated with the site, or linking to data that can be accessed by clicking on sites on the map.
\nThe volunteer monitoring interactive maps that I’ve seen so far have been designed by people with extensive professional training as programmers, cartographers, or Web designers. However, it seems as if there is some technology available — e.g., Google My Maps (the easiest), or Google Maps API — that potentially could be used by people without so much expertise. If anyone has such an example, I would love to hear from them.
\nThank you!
\nEllie
\nEleanor Ely
\nEditor, The Volunteer Monitor Newsletter
\n50 Benton Avenue
\nSan Francisco, CA 94112<\/p>\n

Responses to Question 2<\/h3>\n

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:30:15 -0600
\nFrom: Laura MacFarland <\/p>\n

Ellie,
\nProject RED (River Alliance of Wisconsin’s volunteer invasive species monitoring project)
\nand many other groups use www.citsci.org that allows volunteers to map their findings.
\nTheir mapping application has had a few kinks but they are working them out.<\/p>\n

Laura MacFarland, AIS Project Coordinator
\nRiver Alliance of Wisconsin
\n306 E. Wilson St., Ste. #2W
\nMadison, WI 53703
\nPh: 608-257-2424 ext. 110
\nFax: 608-260-9799
\nwww.wisconsinrivers.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:58:04 -0800
\nFrom: Erick Burres
\nSubject: Re: [volmonitor] displaying data with online maps<\/p>\n

Ellie,
\nHere is a list of some Citizen Monitoring Websites with water quality maps.
\nThey are all unique. Some groups in San Diego have found it easy to use
\nEcolayers and I believe CCAMP has been able to use Google Maps. I hope
\nthat this will be useful for you.<\/p>\n

Santa Barbara Channel Keeper
\nhttp:\/\/www.stream-team.org\/Ventura\/main.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Heal the Bay
\nhttp:\/\/www.healthebay.org\/get-involved\/volunteer\/stream-team<\/a><\/p>\n

Southern California Marine Institute (Might still be posted.)
\nhttp:\/\/scmi.us\/category\/programs\/citizen-water-quality-monitoring<\/a><\/p>\n

CCAMP (Central Coast Ambient Monitoring Program)
\nhttp:\/\/www.ccamp.org\/ca300\/3\/3.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Ecolayers (They have worked with NGO’s and Agencies.)
\nhttp:\/\/www.ecolayers.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Erick Burres
\nCitizen Monitoring Coordinator
\nSWRCB-SWAMP-Clean Water Team
\nVisit the Clean Water Team at:
\nhttp:\/\/www.waterboards.ca.gov\/water_issues\/programs\/swamp\/cwt_volunteer.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:47:55 -0800 (PST)
\nFrom: John Mickelson
\nHi Eleanor,
\nIt’s pretty straight forward to do within Google Maps andor Google Earth.
\nThere are a wide range of tutorials out there to help you; most labor goes into formatting your data… I built a simple service for the stream walk group in our town.
\nSee this link<\/a><\/p>\n

John Mickelson
\nGeospatial and Ecological Services
\n501 Stage Rd.
\nMonroe, NY 10950-3217
\n(845) 893-4110
\njohn.mickelson@yahoo.com<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:11:32 -0500
\nFrom: John Murphy <\/p>\n

Ellie,
\nHave you seen\u00a0http:\/\/streamwatch.org\/stream-condition<\/a>s ?
\nJohn<\/p>\n

John Murphy
\nDirector, StreamWatch
\n434-242-1145
\nP.O. Box 181, Ivy, VA \u00c2 22945
\nwww.streamwatch.org<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:24:31 -0500
\nFrom: “Boward, Dan”
\nSubject: RE: [volmonitor] displaying data with online maps<\/p>\n

Hi Ellie,
\nWe’ve done this\u00a0http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/streams\/streamWaders.asp<\/a> with our MBSS sentinel sites. We’ve found out that our 5000 or so Stream Waders sites might be too much for Google maps.
\nHope this is helpful.
\nHappy Thanksgiving.
\nDan
\nDan Boward
\nMaryland Department of Natural Resources
\nMonitoring and Non-tidal Assessment Division
\n580 Taylor Ave.; C-2
\nAnnapolis, Maryland 21401
\n410-260-8605 (voice)
\n410-260-8620 (fax)
\ndboward@dnr.state.md.us<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:41:58 -0500
\nFrom: “Craddock, Timothy D”
\nEleanor,
\nIn my volunteer assessment database (VAD) I use latitudes and longitudes provided by the monitoring group to create a simple topographic map. The map is created by linking to Maptech. Nothing real fancy here… You can change the map scale and do a little zooming in and out, but that’s about it. Lat-Lon coordinates are displayed if you move your mouse over the map.
\nLinks were created for VAD public pages, which were created for persons who want to view data only.
\nTim Craddock, Program Coordinator
\nWVDEP’s Save Our Streams Program
\n601 57th Street, SE
\nCharleston, WV 25304
\nOffice: (304) 926-0499 Ext. 1040
\nMobile: (304) 389-7630
\nE-mail: timothy.d.craddock@wv.gov<\/p>\n

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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:27:54 -0500
\nFrom: “Ward, David”
\nSubject: RE: [volmonitor] displaying data with online maps<\/p>\n

Loudoun Watershed Watch provides links to several volunteer stream mapping efforts by their partners at http:\/\/www.loudounwatershedwatch.org\/subitem5_6.html<\/a> – This activity continues to be a work in progress. Some are simple imagemap hovers, some are standard framed Google maps, and there’s custom Google Maps mapping in preparation http:\/\/www.loudounwatershedwatch.org\/maps\/<\/a>
\n– David Ward<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:11:45 -0500
\nFrom: nolnacsj@aol.com<\/p>\n

I am sure this has been asked and debated before but our town on Cape Cod is trying to determine what data management options are out there for all our water quality monitoring data and other environmental data that we have. Right now it is all on huge Excel spreadsheets which are hard to use when you want to try and present any information (many parameters, field observations, etc.). We also have land use and other data related to our wastewater planning activities so we need to house all the different data in a way that allows for sharing of information with citizens, town committees, other towns and other volunteer and environmental groups (and regulators). We know about EPA STORET (not very user friendly in my opinion), and the more recent WQX (better), and we think that is probably where we need to go (WQX), but I wondered if anyone out there cares to comment on their own experiences.<\/p>\n

Thank You!<\/p>\n

Judy Scanlon
\nOrleans Marine and Freshwater-Water Quality Task Force<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:05:30 -0800 (PST)
\nFrom: John Mickelson
\nHi Judy,
\nWhile I’ll guess there will be a fairly large gap between your immediate needs and this programs applications, I do think that the NSF-funded Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) will have at least a great deal of interesting projects, if not immediately applicable tools.
\nhttp:\/\/www.cuahsi.org\/<\/a>
\nOne sub-group of the program has been delving into the interoperability issues which have been bottlenecking large-scale efforts to connect and centralize access to the many disparate water quality programs and types that now exist (FedStateLocal). This Hydrological Information System (HIS) division http:\/\/his.cuahsi.org\/<\/a>
\nhas a wide range of developing and capable tools, including HydroExcel: WaterOneFlow Excel Client, which might help you.
\nhttp:\/\/his.cuahsi.org\/hydroexcel.html<\/a>
\nCertainly worth our collective look and ideally our encouragement for a single, unified water quality data standard underpinning an integrated national water quality assessment and visualization service.<\/p>\n

Cheers,
\nJohn<\/p>\n

John Mickelson
\nGeospatial and Ecological Services
\n501 Stage Rd.
\nMonroe, NY 10950-3217
\n(845) 893-4110
\njohn.mickelson@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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