Monitoring Papers & References

EPA and our partners, as well as other organizations, conduct studies and projects related to water quality monitoring and assessment. This page provides links to information regarding tools and data that have been developed from these related efforts.  Links are provided as a DOI, or Digital Object Identifier. The DOI is a string of numbers, letters and symbols used to permanently identify an article or document and link to it on the web. Links are provided as reference and papers cited may not be open source.

Papers

• Olsen, A.R., T.M. Kincaid, M.E. Kentula, M.H. Webber (2019).Survey design to assess condition of wetlands in the United States. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 191, 268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7322-6
• Olsen, A. R., J. Sedransk, D. Edwards, C. A. Gotway, W. Liggett, S. L. Rathbun, K. H. Reckhow and L. J. Young (1999). Statistical issues for monitoring ecological and natural resources in the United States. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 54(1), 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005823911258 
• Olsen, A. R., Snyder, B. D., Stahl, L. L., & Pitt, J. L. (2009). Survey design for lakes and reservoirs in the United States to assess contaminants in fish tissue. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 150(1), 91-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-008-0685-8 
• Olsen, A. R., & Peck, D. V. (2008). Survey design and extent estimates for the Wadeable Streams Assessment. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 27(4), 822-836. https://doi.org/10.1899/08-050.1 
• Paulsen, S. G., Mayio, A., Peck, D. V., Stoddard, J. L., Tarquinio, E., Holdsworth, S. M., Holdsworth, S.M., Van Sickle, J., Yuan, L.L., Hawkins, C.P., Herlihy, A.T. and Kaufmann, P.R., Barbour, B.T., Larsen, P., & Olsen, A. R. (2008). Condition of stream ecosystems in the US: an overview of the first national assessment. Journal of the North American Benthological society, 27(4), 812-821. https://doi.org/10.1899/08-098.1 
• Stahl, L. L., Snyder, B. D., Olsen, A. R., & Walters, L. S. (2013). A national probabilistic study of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in fish from US lakes and reservoirs. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 185(12), 10351-10364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-013-3337-6  
• Stahl, L. L., Snyder, B. D., Olsen, A. R., & Pitt, J. L. (2009). Contaminants in fish tissue from US lakes and reservoirs: a national probabilistic study. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 150(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-008-0669-8 
• Stevens Jr, D. L., & Olsen, A. R. (2003). Variance estimation for spatially balanced samples of environmental resources. Environmetrics, 14(6), 593-610. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.606 
• Stevens Jr, D. L., & Olsen, A. R. (2004). Spatially balanced sampling of natural resources. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99(465), 262-278. https://doi.org/10.1198/016214504000000250
• Urquhart, N. S., & Kincaid, T. M. (1999). Designs for detecting trend from repeated surveys of ecological resources. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 404-414. https://doi.org/10.2307/1400498  
• Urquhart, N. S., Paulsen, S. G., & Larsen, D. P. (1998). Monitoring for policy‐relevant regional trends over time. Ecological Applications, 8(2), 246-257. https://doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0246:MFPRRO]2.0.CO;2  
• Van Sickle, J., Stoddard, J. L., Paulsen, S. G., & Olsen, A. R. (2006). Using relative risk to compare the effects of aquatic stressors at a regional scale. Environmental Management, 38(6), 1020-1030. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-005-0240-0 

Books

• Gitzen, R. A., Millspaugh, J. J., Cooper, A. B., & Licht, D. S. (Eds.). (2012). Design and analysis of long-term ecological monitoring studies. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139022422
  • Olsen, A. R., Kincaid, T. M., & Payton, Q. (2012). Chapter 6: Spatially balanced survey designs for natural resources. Design and analysis of long-term ecological monitoring studies, 126-150. 
• Hankin, D., Mohr, M. S., & Newman, K. B. (2019). Sampling theory: For the ecological and natural resource sciences. Oxford University Press, USA. 
• Tillé, Y. (2020). Sampling and estimation from finite populations. John Wiley & Sons. 
• Volkhardt, G. C., Johnson, S. L., Miller, B. A., Nickelson, T. E., & Seiler, D. E. (2007). Salmonid field protocols handbook: techniques for assessing status and trends in salmon and trout populations. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Full Text 
  • Stevens Jr, D. L., Larsen, D. P., & Olsen, A. R. (2007). The role of sample surveys: Why should practitioners consider using a statistical sampling design. Salmonid Field Protocol Handbook: Techniques for Assessing Status and Trends in Salmon and Trout Populations: 11-23.

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