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Great Lakes Monitoring Inventory and Gap Analysis


Overview

Goals and objectives

Monitoring Program Submission Form

Searchable - Great Lakes Monitoring Inventory

Documents


Great Lakes Monitoring Gap Analysis (PDF)

Appendix A - Great Lakes Monitoring Programs (PDF)

Appendix B - Monitoring Inventory Review (PDF)

Great Lakes Monitoring Legislative Briefing Document (PDF)

Great Lakes Monitoring Inventory Brochure (PDF)

Related Inventories


Lake St. Clair Monitoring Inventory

Lake Michigan Monitoring Inventory
Great Lakes Information Network


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Questions


Comments or questions about the Great Lakes Monitoring Inventory and Gap Analysis? Contact Anne Sturm at asturm@glc.org.

Data and Monitoring

Great Lakes Monitoring Inventory
The following survey form is intended to provide the Great Lakes Monitoring Inventory project with the information needed to create a comprehensive online inventory of monitoring activities throughout the Great Lakes basin. For the purpose of this inventory, monitoring is defined as any ongoing activity in the Great Lakes basin that measures ecosystem health, including water quality, air quality, habitat, biota/wildlife, land use, sedimentation, non-point source pollution, etc. Please fill out one form for each monitoring activity your agency currently undertakes. If you have any questions please contact Anne Sturm at asturm@glc.org or call 734-971-9135.

** Required Fields **

Program Contact Information

First Name:
Last Name:
Title:
Email:
Organization: 
Department:
Address:
City:
State/Province:
Postal Code:
Country:
Phone: --
Fax: --
Organization Website: http://

Program Description

DESCRIPTION
Program Title: 

Program Description (e.g. purpose and goals of the monitoring program):

Data Download Website (if available):

 
Online Reports Website (if available):

 
Program Start Date (YYYY-MM-DD): -- --
Program End Date (YYYY-MM-DD) - skip if program ongoing:   -- --
Current Status (required): Active   Inactive  

 
Medium (media) being monitored: Check All | Uncheck All

Water  Air  Soil  Landuse  Biota/Wildlife
Sediment  Suspended Sediments
Other (specify: )

Select Category (categories) that best describes the type of information being collected: Check All | Uncheck All

Aquatic Invertebrates
Chemical (e.g. pH, BOD, mercury, phosphorus, PCBs)
Physical (e.g. hydrology, weather, habitat, geology, soil)
Vegetation (e.g. native plants, trees, groundcover, aquatic vegetation)
Land Use (e.g. urbanized, agricultural, residential, industrial, brownfields, pervious surface)
Microbiological (e.g. bacteria or other microbial organisms)
Fish
Wildlife (e.g. turtles, beavers, deer)
Invasive species (e.g. purple loosestrife, round goby, zebra mussel)
Other (specify: )

If invasive species was selected as a monitoring category, please select all species that apply: Check All | Uncheck All

Eurasian water milfoil
Zebra mussel
Round goby
Eurasian ruffe
Purple loosestrife
Sea lamprey
Spiny waterflea
Fishhook waterflea
Quagga mussel
Asian carp
Phragmities (common reed)
Other (specify: )

 
Select parameters measured by your monitoring program. The listing below is categorized into six separate divisions: agriculture, atmosphere, biosphere, human dimensions, hydrosphere, and land surface. Please scroll through the list and select all parameters that are included in your monitoring program. Select multiple by holding down the CTRL-key:

Please list all of the parameters measured by your monitoring program that were not already identified in the list above. If available, submit an electronic file to asturm@glc.org

How often is information collected? If parameters are measured with different frequency, please select all that apply. Check All | UncheckAll

Daily Weekly Monthly
Semiannually Annually Other (list: )

In which month(s) is data being collected? Check All | UncheckAll

Jan   Feb   Mar.   Apr.   May   Jun.
Jul.   Aug.  Sep.   Oct.   Nov.  Dec.
Total Current # of Monitoring Stations/Areas:
Total Historic # of Monitoring Stations/Areas:

Select all that describe how the monitoring data are used: Check All | UncheckAll

Federal Mandate   Permit Compliance   State Mandate
Education   General Monitoring (Non-federal or State)
Other (explain: )

 
Describe specifically how the monitoring data are used (e.g. remedial action plans, watershed planning, NPDES compliance, Clean Water Act Sec. 305 compliance, endangered species protection):


Are data available to the public?   YES   NO
Any additional program information:

 

GEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION

Which lakes are being monitored? Select all that apply: Check All | UncheckAll
Lake Erie   Lake Huron   Lake Michigan   Lake Ontario
Lake Superior   Lake St. Clair  

 

In which state/province is monitoring being performed? Select all that apply: Check All | UncheckAll
Illinois   Indiana   Michigan   Minnesota New York  
Ohio Pennsylvania   Wisconsin Ontario Quebec

 
Please provide a description of geographic focus of monitoring (e.g. Lake Superior Thunder Bay):
Please submit latitude/longitude coordinates for each sampling station. Use the text box below or submit an electronic file to asturm@glc.org. This information will be used to construct a detailed geographic database of all sampling in the Great Lakes basin.

 
SUPPORT
Funding Source? 

Estimated Annual Budget?   in U.S. Dollars
Describe any monitoring you would like to be doing but cannot due to budget constraints:


Data Collection and Storage Information

COLLECTION
Select the classification that best describes individuals collecting the monitoring data:
Paid   Volunteers   Student   
Other (specify: )
How many staff or volunteers participate in this project?
Was training provided to data gatherers?   Yes   No
If yes, who provided the training?

 
Please describe the sampling protocols or other methodologies used. Give a general overview and, if applicable, include references or links to documents:

 
Is there a quality assurance and quality control procedure in place?   Yes   No

 
STORAGE
What format is used to store the data? 

 
How long will the data be stored?  

Please send any additional program documentation describing your monitoring program to:

Anne Sturm
Great Lakes Commission
Eisenhower Corporate Park
2805 South Industrial Hwy., Suite 100
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: 734-971-9135
Fax: 734-971-9150
Email: asturm@glc.org



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