Publications of the Methods and Data Comparability Board

   Accreditation

• Accreditation of Laboratory and Field Activites for Water Quality Monitoring (Fact sheet, MDCB 2003)
  
  
• Determining and Documenting the Suitability of Analytical Procedures Used for Analysis of Environmental Samples: NWQMC National Monitoring Conference 2000, Austin, TX (Parr, J., 2000) 
  
  
• The Value of Uniform Accreditation: a white paper developed by the Methods and Data Comparability Board
  

   Biology

• Determining the Comparability of Bio-assessment methods and their results: NWQMC National Monitoring Conference 1998, Reno, NV. (Diamond, J.M., J.B. Stribling, and Yoder, C., 1998)
  
  
• Characterizing and comparing bioassessment approaches and their results: A perspective: J. North American Benthological Society 15:713-727. (Diamond, J.M., J.B. Stribling, and M.T. Barbour, 1996)
  

   General Overview

• The Value of Data Comparability (Fact sheet, MDCB 2003)
  
  
• AWRA IMPACT, Sept. 2003: Seeking a Common Framework for Water Quality Monitoring: Water Resources IMPACT, American Water Resources Association (AWRA), v. 5, no. 5, Sept. 2003. (Ward, R.C., and Peters, C.A., eds.) 
  
  
• National Methods and Data Comparability Board: Collaboration and Comparability(Fact sheet, MDCB 2002)
  
  
• Methods and Data Comparability Board (“the Board”-- never “Bored”) - overview Powerpoint presentation (2001) 
  
  
• United States Water Quality Methods and Data Comparability Board: Creating a framework for collaboration and comparability. in Proceedings of Monitoring Tailor-made III, September 25 - 28, 2000, Nunspeet, the Netherlands (Peters, C.A., Brass, H., Diamond, J., 2000)
  
  
• Activities of the Interagency Methods and Data Comparability Board: Proceedings of the American Water Works Association, Water Quality Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah (Brass, H.J., Ardourel, H., Diamond, J., Eaton, A., Keith, L., Peters, C., 2000)
  
  
• Objectives and Activities of the National Water Monitoring Council: International Conference of the Israel Society for Ecology and Environmental Quality Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel. (Brass, H., Spooner, C., Klein, J.M., and Shockey, M., 1999)
  
  
• The Methods and Data Comparability Board: Collaboration and Comparability: American Water Works Association - Water Quality Technology Conference, Tampa, FL, Nov 1999. (Brass, H., 1999)

   NEMI

• National Environmental Methods Index (Fact sheet, 2006)
  
  
• National Environmental Methods Index (Fact sheet, MDCB 2003)
  
  
• The National Environmental Methods Index as a Tool to Achieve Methods Comparability: American Water Works Association - Water Quality Technology Conference, Nashville, TN, Nov. 2001 (Keith, L., Sullivan, D., Boiani, J., Brass, H., and Peters, C., 2001)

   Performance-based Systems and Nutrients

• Method Verification Within a Performance-Based System Framework: Pilot Study using Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) Methods (Diamond, J., Eaton, A., Dunn, R., Annis, C., Vitale, R., and Brass, H.) Sept. 2004 draft version 4.4.3
  
  
• The DQO/MQO Process for comparability in monitoring: Nitrate as an example - DRAFT -- DO NOT CITE (Alben, K., Diamond, J., Keith, L., and Patton, C.) Feb. 2005 draft 
  
  
• Towards a Definition of Performance- Based Laboratory Methods - National Water Quality Monitoring Council Technical Report 01-02 (Diamond, J., Eaton, A., Annis, C., Brass, H., Keith, L., Strong, A., McChesney, D., and Shockey, M., 2001)
  
  
• Reservoir dogs and performance-based systems: J. Environ. Testing and Analysis, 8: 18-19. (Eaton, A. and Diamond, J., 1999)
  
  
• Performance Based Systems (PBMS) - The Methods and Data Comparability Board Approach: 15th Annual WTQA Conference, Washington, DC, July 1999. (Eaton, A., 1999)
  
  
• Performance Based Methods Systems, NWQMC National Monitoring Conference 1998, Reno, NV. (Strong, A., 1998)
  

  Water Quality Data Elements

• Water Quality Data Elements: A User Guide (PDF format, 606 Kb) 
  
  
• Water Quality Data Elements for Reporting Water Quality Monitoring Results (Fact sheet, 2006
  

   Related Publications

• ITFM Final Report: The Strategy for Improving Water-Quality Monitoring in the United States: Final Report of the Intergovernmental Task Force on Monitoring Water Quality 
  
  
• ITFM Pilot Report: WDNR and USGS, 1994, Findings of the Wisconsin Pilot for the Intergovernmental Task Force on Monitoring (ITFM) Water Quality: Wisconsin Water Resources Coordination Project
  
  
• Lenz, B.N., 1997, Feasibility of Combining Two Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community Databases : U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-132-97 (483 KByte PDF file)
  
  
• Lenz, B.N., and Miller, M.A., 1996, Comparison of Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Samples Collected Using Two Different Field Methods: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-216-96

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