Sponsor web seminars (Webinar Series)

Develop social media tools to communicate

Produce biannual newsletters

Support and expand communication with State/ Regional/Tribal Councils and partners in monitoring

Marketing of Council programs, initiatives, and products

National Monitoring Conferences

Sponsor web seminars or webinars on a wide range of topics and audiences

Rick Hooper: The CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System, January 9th

Curtis Cude: Healthy Waters 101: Water Quality Monitoring for Public Health, February 5th

Jennifer Krstolic & others: Ecological Flows in the Shenandoah River Valley, Virginia, March 7th

Dwane Young & Michael Brennan: USEPA Webinar – Water Quality Exchange: A Tool for Tribes, Volunteer Monitors and Others to Share WQ Data, March 13th

Barb Horn: Would a State or Regional Partnership, Alliance and/or Council Serve Your Needs?, April 23rd

Adrian Hanley: EPA’s Water Contaminant Information Tool (WCiT), June 4th

Chuck Bohall: National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), June 25th

Send us your ideas or volunteer to give a web seminar!

Council Calendar ◦ Dan Sullivan and Cathy Tate will continue to try to get a

calendar that works! Available on SharePoint site.

Council Blog ◦ Continue to push approval for blog (Still waiting on

approval)

Recording Webinars ◦ Webinars are now being recorded! Have a few hoops to go

through before we can post.

Twitter ◦ Follow the 2014 National Monitoring Conference

Deadline for Fall issue is Friday, September 13, 2013

Send articles to Editorial Board: Cathy Tate, cmtate@usgs.gov John Hummer, jhummer@glc.org Alice Mayio, mayio.alice@epa.gov Dan Sullivan, djsulliv@usgs.gov Wendy Norton, wenorton@usgs.gov

http://acwi.gov/monitoring/newsletter/index.html

Barb Horn: Would a State or Regional Partnership, Alliance and/or Council Serve Your Needs?, April 23rd

Jeff Frey: The Indiana Water Monitoring Council - an update from a relatively new Council, August 20th

Improve how we (Council) communicate our role within the water-quality monitoring community

Reorganize our website ◦ Currently serves primarily Council members ◦ Want site to serve multiple audiences (“non-Council

members”) and monitoring practitioners

http://acwi.gov/monitoring/workgroups/co/NWQMC_callingcard.pdf

We want your ideas for web seminars, articles for the newsletter, and other ways to

Collaborate, Communicate, Coordinate!

Cathy Tate and Barb Horn (cmtate@usgs.gov) or (Barb.Horn@state.co.us)