Monitoring Resources

For more than a decade, PNAMP has partnered with regional and national partners to create a network of information and tools to support a variety of monitoring needs.

MonitoringResources.org provides an online, publicly accessible suite of information and tools. Monitoring Resources allows project sponsors and monitoring practitioners to describe their monitoring projects via the metadata documentation of methods, protocols, sample designs (where and when data collection occurs), and study plans. Additionally, Monitoring Resources provides a plethora of guidelines and tools to help managers develop new monitoring programs and share existing ones. The Explorer Map promotes collaboration by allowing users to identify sampling locations and strategies for additional monitoring or to optimize existing monitoring. Monitoring Resources can also be a useful tool to fulfill contracting needs and secure funding. Resource managers, funding agencies, and policy makers can quickly look up existing and proposed monitoring projects so that they can better understand how well priorities are being met and assess where monitoring efforts might have gaps or redundancies.