In 2025, Alabama Water Watch Staff continued the webinar series, Understanding and Advancing Your Monitoring Data for Bacteriological and Water Chemistry Monitoring.
The webinar series, while most applicable to AWW Volunteer Monitors and members of their watershed groups who utilize data, was open to anyone wanting to learn more about how to use water data to identify and pollution issues in their watersheds.
Through the webinars, participants learned how to interpret water chemistry and bacteriological monitoring water quality test results and adapt monitoring plans to better identify sources of nonpoint source pollution.
During these one-hour webinars, AWW Staff provided an overview of how to use the Online AWW Water Data Tools to understand AWW monitoring data, how to conduct strategic sampling to narrow down potential pollution sources, and how you can seek out solutions to water quality issues. The webinars also covered water quality standards relating to the monitoring variables discussed and how those standards relate to monitoring data.
The webinars discussed how to navigate online data tools such as:
If you would like to access webinar recordings, please contact awwprog@auburn.edu.
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