Our Work
Collaborate
Our nation’s rivers and streams are strongest when advocates work together. Through community networks and connectivity the Water Data Collaborative is the glue that binds community water data together.
Support
Whether you’ve been collecting water quality data for 10 years or 10 days, we provide support in the form of tools, trainings, and much more for monitoring programs of any size or tenure.
Advocate
We want to see more community science data in the hands of decision makers, so we work with local, state, and federal agency partners to help catalog and share best practices and services for embracing and supporting community water science.
The Mainstem Network
The Mainstem Network is a destination for all WDC members, technical service providers, funders and supporters to connect digitally to discuss all components of community water monitoring with the goal of delivering data that sparks action. The Mainstem Network is the only centralized hub of its kind built exclusively to amplify the voices and impacts of community water scientists.
Advocating for Community Supported Water Science
We want to see more community science data in the hands of decision-makers, so we work with state and federal agency partners to help catalogue and share best practices and services for embracing and supporting community water science. We recently released a StoryMap that allows agencies to easily share and discover ways they and others are supporting and embracing community water science and data.
Monitoring Resources
The Water Data Collaborative is working to organize community water science resources, and practitioners, as well as create new and helpful tools to guide users through the entire process of water monitoring, from study design guidance, to data management, analysis, and communication.
Trainings
The scale and capacity of community science programs can vary across regions, and even across the same watershed. We at the Water Data Collaborative want to provide the necessary resources to all organizations that want to start a community science program or enhance an existing one. Through the crafting and sharing of peer-reviewed trainings on subjects like study design, field procedures, and so much more we aim to further eliminate barriers to community-based water quality monitoring.