Environmental Monitoring

Addresses the recent legislative focus on results, which can only be measured with high-quality data
Includes results from environmental monitoring efforts around the world
Combines the conceptual basis of all monitoring activities with specifics on conducting monitoring programs in different ecosystems and environmental media

The current rate and scale of environmental change around the world makes the detection and understanding of these changes increasingly urgent. Subsequently, government legislation is focusing on measurable results of environmental programs, requiring researchers to employ effective and efficient methods for acquiring high-quality data.

Environmental Monitoring is the first book to bring together the conceptual basis behind all monitoring activities with specific approaches to the monitoring of air, water, and land. Coverage includes integrated monitoring at the landscape level, as well as case studies of existing monitoring programs. The book focuses on pollution issues and impacts resulting from human activities and includes results from monitoring efforts carried out in various countries on several continents. The multinational makeup of the contributors and the cases presented gives the book worldwide relevance.

Academics in all fields relating to environmental monitoring, as well as governmental agency employees and supporting contractor agencies, will find this book a comprehensive and useful reference.

Conceptual Basis of Environmental Monitoring Systems: A Geospatial Perspective
Integrated Data Management for Environmental Monitoring Programs
Using Multimedia Risk Models in Environmental Monitoring
Basic Concepts and Applications of Environmental Monitoring
An Indicator for Assessment of Long-Term Changes in Pollutant Concentrations Measured by Air Quality Monitoring Networks with Application to Policy Related Decisions
Atmospheric Monitoring
Opportunities and Challenges in Surface Water Quality Monitoring
Groundwater Monitoring: Statistical Methods for Testing Special Background Conditions
Well Pattern, Setback, and Flow Rate Considerations for Groundwater Monitoring Networks at Landfills
Selection of Ecological Indicators for Measuring Terrestrial Systems
Efficacy of Forest Health Monitoring Indicators to Evince Impacts on a Chemically Manipulated Watershed
Landscape Monitoring
Nonsampling Errors in Ocular Assessments - Swedish Experiences of Observer Influences on Forest Damage Assessments
Tree-Ring Analysis for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment of Anthropogenic Changes
Uranium, Thorium and Potassium in Soils Along the Shore of Lake Issyk-kyol in the Kryghyz Republic
Monitoring and Assessment of the Fate and Transport of Contaminants at a Superfund Site
Statistical Methods for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Geostatistical Approaches for Optimally Adjusting a Monitoring Network
Variability of Estimates of Variance and its Effect on Power Analyses
Discriminating Between Good and Bad: Quality Assurance is Central in Biomonitoring Studies
Patchy Distribution Fields: Acoustic Survey Design and Reconstruction Adequacy
Monitoring Assessment and Environmental Policy
Development of Watershed-based Assessment Tools Using Monitoring Data
Bioindicators for Assessing Human and Ecological Health
Biological Indicators in Environmental Monitoring Programs: Can We Increase Their Effectiveness
Judging Survey Quality in Biomonitoring
Major Monitoring Networks: A Foundation to Preserve, Protect and Restore
From Monitoring Design to Operational Program: Facilitating the Transition Under Resource-Limited Conditions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program
The United States Forest Health Monitoring Program
Clean Air Status Trends Network (CASTNet) - Air Quality Assessment and Accountability
EPA's Regional Vulnerability Assessment Program: Using Monitoring Data and Model Results to Target Actions