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Administrative (ADMN)

  • ADMN002.00, PDF Personnel Organization and Responsibilities for Studies. R. Segawa, 1996.
  • ADMN003.00, PDF Preparing and Approving Protocols, Reports, and Other Technical Documents. C. Ando, 1999.
  • ADMN006.00, PDF Creating and Filling Out a Chain of Custody Record. C. Ganapathy, 1996.
  • ADMN006.01, PDF Creating and Filling Out a Chain of Custody Record. C. Ganapathy, 2004.

Field Equipment Use (EQ)

Field Sampling Method (FS)

  • FSSO001.00, PDF Soil Bulk Density Determination. C. Garretson, 1999.
  • FSSO002.00, PDF Soil Sampling, Including Auger and Surface Soil Procedures. C. Garretson, 1999.
  • FSAI001.00, PDF Preparation of Air Sampling Tubes and Resin Jars. C. Ganapathy, 1999.
  • FSOT002.00, PDF Instructions for the Calibration and Use of a Spherical Densiometer. A. Washburn, 2003.
  • FSWA001.00, PDF Well Sampling: Obtaining Permission to Sample, Purging, Collection, Preservation, Storage and Documentation. J. Marade, 1996.
  • FSWA001.01, PDF Obtaining and Preserving Well Water Samples. C. Nordmark and L. Pinera-Pasquino, 2008.
  • FSWA001.03, PDF Obtaining and Preserving Well Water Samples. T. Kocis, 2020.
  • FSWA003.00, PDF Equal-Width-Increment Sampling of Surface Waters. K. Bennett, 1998.
  • FSWA006.01, PDF Selection of a Suitable Wells and Study Sites for Ground Water Monitoring. C. Nordmark and L. Pinera-Pasquino, 2008.
  • FSWA006.02, PDF Planning, Conducting and Documenting Small-Scale Ground Water Monitoring Studies. M. Wong, 2013.
  • FSWA009.00, PDF Procedure for Determining Wadable Stream Discharge With Price Current Meters. A. Fecko, 1999.
  • FSWA014.00, PDF Instructions for the Use of the Global FP201 Flow Probe for Estimating Discharge in Wadable Streams. A. Moncada, 2003.

Laboratory Method and Data Analysis (METH and DATA)

Data and Database

  • DATA002.00, PDF (274 kb) Loading Large Datasets into Oracle 8i Tables from Unix and Windows. J. Schuette, 2005.
  • METH004.00, PDFProcedure for Determining Soil Particle Size Using the Hydrometer Method. H. Dietrich, 2005. Amendment, PDF Template, Excel
  • METH009.00, PDFCalculation of Pesticide Half-life from a Terrestrial Field Dissipation Study. R. Bergin, 2010
  • METH009.01, Calculation of Pesticide Half-life from a Terrestrial Field Dissipation Study, PDF. R. Bergin, 2012.
  • METH010.00, PDF Analysis of Whole Sample Suspended Sediments in Water. M. Ensminger, 2013.

Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QAQC)

  • QAQC003.00, PDF Sample Tracking Procedures. A. Hoffman, 1997.
  • QAQC003.01, PDF Sample Tracking Procedures. A. Hoffman and J. Walters 1999.
  • QAQC004.00, PDF Procedure for Packaging and Transporting Samples. C. Nordmark, 1996.
  • QAQC005.00, PDF Preparation of Sample Containers. C. Nordmark, 19968.
  • QAQC011.00, PDF Preparation of a Field Blank Sample. B. Orlando, 2007.