WELCOME TO THE PNAMP SURVEY OF AQUATIC MONITORING ACTIVITIES

To take the survey, please continue reading. To view survey results, scroll to the bottom of this page

The purpose of this survey is to help people who conduct aquatic and watershed monitoring in the field (that's you) to find other people doing similar work. The intent is to promote collaborative field sampling so that:

  • duplication of effort can be avoided;
  • the amount of information available for analyses can be increased; and
  • monitoring can be done more efficiently.

To meet these goals, PNAMP (Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership) is collecting information on monitoring -- who monitors what, and where. This survey is about monitoring of aquatic resources and those factors that affect aquatic resources. "Monitoring" in this survey refers only to:

  • status and trend monitoring of populations (fish counts, amphibian counts, redd counts, etc.);

  • status and trend monitoring of communities (macroinvertebrates, riparian vegetation, etc.);
  • status and trend monitoring of aquatic habitats (stream physical habitat, water quality, etc.);
  • status and trend monitoring of riparian and upland habitats as they affect aquatic habitats (erosion, upland vegetation, etc.);
  • effectiveness monitoring of habitat improvement projects (evaluations of desired changes resulting from projects).

Are we interested in your information?

The geographic scope of this survey is the Pacific Northwest region from San Francisco to Canada, including Idaho and western Montana (though we'll gladly accept eastern Montana information if you have both). Estuarine areas are included but ocean areas are not. The temporal scope is monitoring that currently occurs or will begin in the next two years. We are interested only in long-term activities, not shorter-term efforts that last for only a few years.

 

Viewing Survey Results

Over 310 people (as of 2/13/07) have filled out the survey.

There are two different ways to search for results of the survey. The map-based search lets you find monitoring projects by clicking on a 5th-field HUC. The keyword search lets you enter search terms.

Limitations: At this time both methods are works in progress and have limitations, so we recommend you use both methods. For the map-based search we do not yet have usable locations for 41% of the survey respondents. Also, the map-based search can not yet be used to find estuarine work.
The keyword search option includes all survey respondents, but does not yet search and return all information of interest. (This includes not returning all location information.)

Feel free to view the results, but plan on coming back in a few months when more data will be viewable.


Here's another way to see the data: click here to download the tables in an Access 2000 database format Be aware that this is a snapshot of the database from April 27, 2007 and does not contain any updates done since that time.