Monitoring Streams and Watersheds: Reflections on Recent Advances and Persistent Challenges

Abstract

Conquest and Ralph will introduce stream and watershed monitoring efforts, including the purpose of monitoring and an evaluation of how we are doing. They will provide an overview of watershed processes. They will review persistent challenges. They will describe the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), and discuss sampling design issues. Finally, they will present their conclusions and future challenges. A list of Dr. Conquest's selected publications is available at: http://www.fish.washington.edu/people/conquest/. More information about Ralph's work with Stillwater Sciences is available at: http://www.stillwatersci.com/about_our_work.php.