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Quality Assurance Monitoring Plan: Marine Waters Long-Term Monitoring, Water Column Program, 2025

 
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25-03-101March 2025
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Author(s) Suzan Pool, Christopher Krembs, and Alex Fisher
Description The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) started a marine water monitoring (MWM) program in 1967 to monitor Puget Sound and two coastal estuaries. The Quality Assurance Monitoring Plan (QAMP) describes Ecology’s MWM program for marine water column profiles. The sampling program covers U.S. waters of the Salish Sea, including Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, as well as coastal bays of Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay. This QAMP describes the current program’s goals and objectives, strategies, field and laboratory procedures, data management, quality assurance and quality control, and safety guidelines.
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Keywords marine water monitoring, seawater, Water Column Monitoring, nutrients, QA Monitoring Plan, ocean acidification, Salish Sea, Willapa Bay, Grays Harbor, Puget Sound, nutrient, coast, marine water quality monitoring, vertical profiles
WEB PAGE Puget Sound and marine monitoring water column data
WATERSHED Water Resource Inventory Areas
(WRIA 01,WRIA 02,WRIA 03,WRIA 05,WRIA 06,WRIA 07,WRIA 08,WRIA 09,WRIA 10,WRIA 12,WRIA 13,WRIA 14,WRIA 15,WRIA 17,WRIA 18,WRIA 22,WRIA 24)
DATA Environmental Information Management (EIM) #MarineWater

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