Lecture 24 - Monitoring Chemicals in the Environment
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Learning Objectives
- Understand the importance of tools such as quality assurance project plans to effective monitoring of environmental chemicals.
- Describe the elements of a quality assurance project plan.
- Describe the elements in the development of data quality objectives.
- Define quality assurance and quality control.
- Explore the arguments of chemical vs. biological monitoring of chemical in the environment.
- li?Explore the indicator species concept.
- Understand the critical elements of a quality-based sampling program.
- Use the NPDES program as case study to understand a basis and approach to environmental monitoring.