Edge-of-Field Water Quality Monitoring: The New NRCS Activity Standards, Session 1 - Introduction, History, Overview
Webinar Details
When:
Nov 6, 2012 10:00 am US/Eastern
Length: 00:53 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Reviewed for Continued Content Relevance: 07/2016
Presenter(s):
- Tom Christensen, Regional Conservationist, Central Region, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, D.C.
- C. Wayne Honeycutt, Ph.D., Deputy Chief, Science and Technology, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, D.C.
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Certificate of Participation
- Conservation Planner (CP) - 1 hour Conservation Planning Credit
Virtual Event Format:
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Session 1 of "Edge-of-Field Water Quality Monitoring: The New NRCS Activity Standards" provides an introduction, the history, and an overview of the topic to begin training on the the new NRCS Activity Standards.
This webinar series gives an overview of NRCS’s edge-of-field water quality monitoring and evaluation activity standards, history with water quality monitoring, and how NRCS anticipates working with producers and professionals to monitor water quality.
- Session 1 - Introduction, History, Overview
- Session 2 - Technical Specifications
- Session 3 - Forms, Reports, Data Storage
- Session 4 - Programs and Funding
NRCS first became involved in edge-of-field monitoring in the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative using interim standard 799. Through the many lessons learned from those efforts, as well as those from the professional monitoring community, NRCS’s future involvement with edge-of-field water quality monitoring will be through activity standards that ensure the technical adequacy necessary to achieve all of NRCS’s needs to quantify water quality benefits, validate and calibrate NRCS’s models, and assist producers to make the best conservation investments possible. This training describes NRCS’s monitoring history and reasons for monitoring; the technical details of the new activity standards; and the programmatic details of getting NRCS edge-of-field water quality monitoring implemented on the ground.
This webinar is sponsored by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Contact Shannon Zezula, State Resource Conservationist, Indiana NRCS, for more information about the webinars in this series.
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