This course was created to help Monitoring Project personnel generate usable, reliable, and well documented data through a scientifically-defensible monitoring design. The course also addresses the need to generate SWAMP-comparable data in California and provides the latest requirements.

The course will review the basic concepts of scientific measurements, sampling design principles, and data quality management as applied to the process of generating usable, reliable, scientifically-defensible, and well documented environmental data. You will also learn how hypothesis testing can be applied to trend monitoring, regulatory decision making, and evaluation of the effectiveness of management measures implemented to reduce pollution. The course will take you through the entire thought process that underlies the planning of an environmental monitoring effort, and provide ample systematic planning tools, templates, check-lists, and labor & budget spreadsheets that have proved extremely useful to our students.

Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 28-29, 2010

UC Berkeley Extension, Golden Bear Building, 1995 University Ave.

Instructor: Revital Katznelson, Ph.D.

$545 (EDP 318808)

Enrollment information can be found at:

http://extension.berkeley.edu/cat/course1274.html