Early Influence Of The Covid‐19 Pandemic On Volunteer Water Monitoring Programs In The United States And Canada
Advanced Search
Select up to three search categories and corresponding keywords using the fields to the right. Refer to the Help section for more detailed instructions.

Search our Collections & Repository

For very narrow results

When looking for a specific result

Best used for discovery & interchangable words

Recommended to be used in conjunction with other fields

Dates

to

Document Data
Library
People
Clear All
Clear All

For additional assistance using the Custom Query please check out our Help Page

i

Early Influence Of The Covid‐19 Pandemic On Volunteer Water Monitoring Programs In The United States And Canada

Filetype[PDF-560.35 KB]


Details You May Also Like

Details:

  • Journal Title:
    JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • Personal Author:
  • NOAA Program & Office:
    Sea Grant
  • Sea Grant Program:
    LCSG (Lake Champlain Sea Grant)
  • Description:
    Volunteer water monitoring programs generate new scientific knowledge, contribute data to decision‐making processes, and increase social networks, technical knowledge, and skills of participants. Declaration of the COVID‐19 pandemic threatened the ability of these programs to continue to engage volunteers to achieve such outcomes. A national water monitoring network hosted a brainstorming webinar to facilitate communication across programs to identify potential solutions to pandemic‐influenced challenges. Following that webinar, a survey of United States and Canadian volunteer monitoring programs that was conducted about 3 months into the pandemic revealed that 72% of 80 responding programs planned to carry on through the 2020 field season despite most having experienced delayed starts. Other common program modifications implemented in the first months of the pandemic included adding COVID‐19 safety information to program guidance, changing field team composition, monitoring timing and logistics, and adopting new communications strategies. Most programs reported loss or anticipated loss in number of data observations (74%) and volunteers (66%), while 44% reported known or anticipated losses in funding. Seventeen percent of responding programs were able to swiftly develop distance learning tools to train participants, which led to increased program capacity to reach broader audiences.
  • Keywords:
  • Source:
    JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 58(6), 1377-1387
  • DOI:
  • ISSN:
    1093-474X;1752-1688;
  • Format:
    PDF
  • Publisher:
    Wiley
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
  • License:
  • Rights Information:
    CC BY
  • Compliance:
    Submitted
  • Main Document Checksum:
  • Download URL:
  • File Type:

Supporting Files

  • No Additional Files
More +

You May Also Like

Checkout today's featured content at repository.library.noaa.gov

Version 3.26.1