System-wide Monitoring Program

Data Management

For a monitoring program to be valued, the data collected must be accurate, representative and of sufficient duration. Accuracy requires a dataset to have been examined for wrong or missing data.

All SWMP data is housed and served through the NERRS Centralized Data Management Office (CDMO) which provides quality assurance and quality control for the reserve system. The CDMO is also responsible for maintaining and updating the NERRS standard operating procedures so that all SWMP data are collected in the same way across the nation.

Data Access: Monitoring

Archived and near-real time Water Quality and Weather Data may be accessed directly via interactive map at:
http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/QueryPages/googlemap.cfm

Data Access: Mapping

NERRS boundary maps and station locations may be downloaded as either GIS shape files:
http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/GIS/shapefiles.cfm

or, Google Earth compatible .kml files:
http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/GIS/kmlfiles.cfm

What is QA/QC?

Quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC) and standard operating procedures (SOP) are separate components of a monitoring program that work together to provide data of known quality. Together they minimize and quantify the error that is introduced in sampling and allow the tracking of errors that might occur. QA/QC includes planning, assessment, reporting and making necessary changes to the water monitoring program to ensure quality data.

For more information, contact Whitley Saumweber.