Join Simon Browning, Senior Data & Evidence Officer at Westcountry Rivers Trust, to learn more about planning and designing a water quality monitoring programme including:

• Setting your monitoring objectives
• Choosing an appropriate monitoring strategy
• Choosing appropriate monitoring equipment
• How you might use and visualise your data to help answer your questions

Simon has a wealth of experience with catchment scale environmental monitoring instrumentation. He has worked in a variety of roles including the development of novel monitoring tools and installation of real-time monitoring systems. Simon leads the water quality monitoring activities at Westcountry Rivers Trust and has developed the Westcountry CSI volunteer monitoring scheme.

Outline

Introduction to planning and designing a water quality monitoring programme (Presentation)

Water Quality Top Trumps (Interactive Session): Working together design a water quality monitoring strategy based on a real world situation. Which equipment and approaches will you choose and why? We’ll discuss the various choices and which approaches might be appropriate for different situations

Break

Monitoring Surgery (Q&A Discussion): Submit your water quality monitoring queries in advance to be discussed as part of the webinar. Please submit your questions via the webinar registration form.

Booking

This training webinar is for CaBA Partnership Hosts.

Please book via the button at the top right of this page. You will be sent joining instructions closer to the time.

This webinar is part of the 2020 CaBA Catchment Data & Evidence FORUM. Click here to return to the FORUM home page.

Please note the main FORUM and individual webinars must be booked separately.

This webinar is hosted by CaBA and Westcountry Rivers Trust with support from the WaterCOG Project funded by the EU Interreg North Sea Programme.