Water Quality Monitoring Design Class
UCBE (UC Berekely Extension) will offer this course again this year, in September 2018. The course materials will undergo a thorough update before class, as usual.
The course is designed 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 updated information on the resources offered by SWAMP as well as new tools for streamlined upload of field measurements data into CEDEN.
We review the basic concepts of scientific measurements, sampling design principles, and data quality management as applied to the process of generating good environmental data. Students 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 helps students understand the entire thought process that underlies the planning of an environmental monitoring effort, and provides ample systematic planning tools, templates, check-lists, and labor & budget spreadsheets that have proved extremely useful to our students.
Wednesday and Thursday, September 12-13, 2018
UC Berkeley Extension’s Golden Bear Building , 1995 University Ave.
Instructor: Revital Katznelson, Ph.D.
$595 (EL ENG 1006 -009)
The enrollment for September 2018 is open now, at http://extension.berkeley.edu