Knowledge base
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A guide to creating a holistic plan for your monitoring program.
- Introduction to designing your Collaborative Monitoring Plan
- Defining your purpose
- Making a difference
- Collecting data: what, where, when and how
- Using your monitoring data
- Working collaboratively
Learn best practices and resources in organising and sharing your data.
Details on the approach and structure of the methods audit.
- Guidance: defining your primary monitoring purpose
- Methods list and categories
- Overview: Method audit process
Testing guidance for biological elements in the river ecosystem.
- Overview: Fish monitoring
- Overview: Macroinvertebrate monitoring
- Method audit: Riverfly Monitoring Initiative (RMI)
- Method audit: Extended Riverfly
- Overview: Bacteria monitoring
Guidance on monitoring riparian (shoreline) ecosystems.
- Overview: physical habitat monitoring
- Long list: Physical habitat methods
- Method audit: Modular Rivers Survey (MoRPh)
- Method audit: Mudspotter
- Method audit: Citizen River Habitat Survey (cRHS)
Soil testing guidance in relation to understanding river ecosystem health.
- Overview: Soil monitoring
- Guidance: Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS)
- Guidance: Earthworm count
- Guidance: Infiltration test
- Guidance: Soil texture jar test
- Guidance: Soil nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium (NPK) and pH testing
- Guidance: Slake (wet aggregate stability) test
- Guidance: ‘Soil my undies’ test (optional)
Guidance on common water quality parameters.
Existing protocols and schemes that combine multiple approaches.
- Guidance: defining your primary monitoring purpose
- Guidance: Designing a Water Blitz
- Method audit: Outfall Safari
Best practices and resources to help you support volunteers and staff.
A non-exhaustive list of other resources.