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FIELD
RECONNAISSANCE
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Field Location Selection
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Reconnaissance Procedures for Initial Visit to Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Sites
Site Verification form
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FISH FIELD
METHODS
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Electrofishing Method
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Electrofishing Assessment Protocol for Fish Assemblages in Great Lake Coastal Wetlands
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Fyke Net Method
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Fyke Net Assessment Methods for Fish Assemblages in Great Lake Coastal Wetlands
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Traveling Zone Method
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Methods for the Collection of Fish Assemblage Information based on Electrofishing and the Traveling Zone Study Design
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Data Quality Objectives
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Sampling and Data Requirements for Fish and Macroinvertebrate Communities (pg 89)
Standard Operating Procedures for the Rapid Assessment of Fish Communities
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HYDROLOGY
ASSESSMENT
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Flow
(Open Channel)
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ASTM D5389
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IBI ASSESSMENT &
ANALYSIS
Indiana Index of
Biotic Integrity (IBI)
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Great Lakes Nearshore and Coastal Wetlands
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A Plant Index of Biotic Integrity for Drowned River Mouth Coastal Wetlands of Lake Michigan
Classification and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages of the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands for Use in Development of Indices of Biological Integrity
Development of an Activity Trap Macroinvertebrate Index of Biotic Integrity for Lake Michigan
Development of a D-net Macroinvertebrate Index of Biotic Integrity for Lake Michigan Drowned River Mouth Wetlands
Evaluation of Great Lakes Nearshore Coastal Wetlands: with Emphasis on Development of Watershed Biotic Indicators and Status
Evaluation of Great Lakes Nearshore Coastal Wetlands: with Emphasis on Development of Watershed Biotic Indicators and Status. IAG: Supplemental Macroinvertebrate Study
Guide to Appropriate Metric Selection for Calculating the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) for Indiana Large and Great Rivers, Inland Lakes, and Great Lakes nearshore
Standard Operating Procedures for Evaluation of Great Lakes Nearshore Coastal Wetlands: with Emphasis on Development of Watershed Biotic Indicators and Status
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Lakes
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Development, Calibration and Validation of a Littoral Zone Plant Index of Biotic Integrity (PIBI) for Lacustrine Wetlands
Development of Fish Community Reference Conditions for Dunal, Palustrine Wetlands along the Southern Shore of Lake Michigan
Guide to Appropriate Metric Selection for Calculating the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) for Indiana Large and Great Rivers, Inland Lakes, and Great Lakes nearshore
Lake and Reservoir Bioassessment and Biocriteria: Technical Guidance Document
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Large and Great Rivers
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Applying an Index of Biotic Integrity Based on Great River Fish Communities: Considerations in Sampling and Interpretation
Biological Criteria Development for Large Rivers with an Emphasis on an Assessment of the White River Drainage, Indiana (6 MB)
Development, Calibration, and Validation of an Index of Biotic Integrity for the Wabash River (12 MB)
Development of a Multimetric Index for Assessing the Biological Condition of the Ohio River
Guide to Appropriate Metric Selection for Calculating the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) for Indiana Large and Great Rivers, Inland Lakes, and Great Lakes nearshore
Development of Index of Biotic Integrity Expectations for the Wabash River
(14 MB)
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Macroinvertebrate Communities
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Classification and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages of the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands for Use in Development of Indices of Biological Integrity (link to chapter in IAG)
Development of an Activity Trap Macroinvertebrate Index of Biotic Integrity for Lake Michigan
Development of a D-net Macroinvertebrate Index of Biotic Integrity for Lake Michigan Drowned River Mouth Wetlands
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Streams
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Application of the Index of Biotic Integrity to Evaluate Water Resource Integrity in Freshwater Ecosystems
Development of Index of Biotic Integrity Expectations for the Ecoregions of Indiana.
I. Central Corn Belt Plain (5 MB)
II. Huron-Erie Lake Plain (6 MB)
III. Northern Indiana Till Plain (6 MB)
IV. Interior River Lowland
V. Eastern Corn Belt Plain (6 MB)
Standard Operating Procedures for the Assessment of Streams in the Northern Lakes and Forest Ecoregion with Emphasis on the Development of Biological Indicators and Status
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Wetlands
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Development, Calibration and Validation of a Littoral Zone Plant Index of Biotic Integrity (PIBI) for Lacustrine Wetlands
Development of Fish Community Reference Conditions for Dunal, Palustrine Wetlands along the Southern Shore of Lake Michigan
Development of Multimetric Indices of Biotic Integrity for Riverine and Palustrine Wetland Plant Communities along Southern Lake Michigan
Modification of an Index of Biotic Integrity for Vernal Ponds and Small Palustrine Wetlands, Using Amphibians, Crayfish and Fish Assemblages along Southern Lake Michigan
Using Plant Communities as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance with Emphasis on Development of an Index of Biological Integrity
Validation of an Index of Biotic Integrity for Evaluating Dunal Palustrine Wetlands with Emphasis on the Grand Calumet Lagoons
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INORGANIC ANALYSIS
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Acid-Volatile Sulfide
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Acid-Volume Sulfides (AVS)
Analysis of Acid-Volatile Sulfide in Soils and Sediment (AVS)
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Anions
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Determination of Anions in Water by Wet Chemistry Procedures
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Carbon
(and Stable Carbon Isotopes)
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Determination of carbon, nitrogen, and/or stable C and N isotopes by isotope ratio mass spectroscopy
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Grain Size
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Analysis of Grain Size Distribution in Soil and Sediment Samples (G3)
Grain Size
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Metals
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Analysis of Inorganic Arsenic (As) in Tissue and Sediment Samples
Analysis of Inorganic Species and Organic Arsenic in Tissues and Sediment Samples
Analysis of Mercury by Cold-Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (CVAAS)
Analysis of Tetra Ethyl Lead
Analysis of Trace Metals by Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy (AFS)
Analysis of Trace Metals in Biological Tissue, Soils, and Sediments by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA)
Analysis of Trace Metals by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (FAAS)
Analysis of Trace Metals by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (GFAAS)
Analysis of Trace Metals in Water Samples by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS)
Analysis of Trace Metals by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP)
Determination of Mercury in Tissue and Sediment
Determination of Mercury in Water
Determination of Methyl Mercury in Water
Digestion of Water Samples for “Total Recoverable” Metals (other than Mercury)
Digestion of Water, Soil, Sediment and Biological Tissue for Mercury Analysis
Methyl Mercury in Tissue
Preconcentration of Water Samples for Trace Element Analysis
Preparation and Analysis of Tissue and Sediment Samples for Methyl Mercury (MeHg)
Sediment Trace Metals by INAA
Simultaneously Extracted Metals (SEM) - Sediment
Tissue, Sediment and Water Mercury
Tissue Trace Metals by INAA
Total Cyanide (Sediment, Tissues or Water)
Trace Metal (except Hg)-Water
Trace Metal-Sediment
Trace Metal SEM-Sediment
Trace Metal-Tissue
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Moisture Content
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Moisture Content of Sediment, Soil, and Tissue Samples
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Nitrogen
(and Stable Nitrogen Isotopes)
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Determination of carbon, nitrogen, and/or stable C and N isotopes by isotope ratio mass spectroscopy
Nitrogen in Tissue, Soil, and Sediment
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Perchlorate
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Determination of Perchlorate in Water
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Total Organic Carbon
(TOC)
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Analysis of Soils and Sediments for Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
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Total Suspended Solids (TSS)
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Determination of Total Suspended Solids
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MACROINVERTEBRATE
FIELD METHODS
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Activity Trap Method
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Activity Trap Assessment Protocol for Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in Great Lake Coastal Wetlands
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D-Frame Method
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Invertebrate D-Frame Sampling Procedures for Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
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Data Quality Objectives
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Sampling and Data Requirements for Fish and Macroinvertebrate Communities (pg 89)
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ORGANICS ANALYSIS
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Biomass (Total Wet Weight)
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Biomass Determination
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Chlorophylls and Other Plant Pigments
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Chlorophylls and Other Plant Pigments
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Oil and Grease
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Oil and Grease
Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons
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Pesticides and Metabolites
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Aliphatic and Aromatic Hydrocarbons/Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Water (Water Organic)
Aromatic Hydrocarbon Metabolites in Bile
Determination of Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and M,P,O – Xylene By Gas Chromotography/Mass Spectrometry (Btex)
Determination of PBDE’s by GC/MS
Determination of Pesticides and PCBs by GC/MS
Determination of Triazines by GC/MS
Dioxin/Furan Analysis
Hydrazine Analysis in Sediments
Organophosphate Pesticides – Tissues
Organophosphate Pesticides – Sediments
Sediments Organic/Pesticide
TBT
Tissue Organics
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Semivolatiles
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EPA Method for Semivolatiles
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Total Organic Carbon
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Total Organic Carbon-Coulometrics
Total Organic Carbon-Leco
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Total Volatile Solids
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Percent Total Volatile Solids
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Volatiles
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EPA Method for Volatiles
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PLANT ASSESSMENT
METHODS
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Coefficient of Conservatism
(CC) Value
Floristic Quality
Index (FQI)
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Floristic Quality Assessment in Indiana: The Concept, Use, and Development of Coefficients of Conservatism.
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Plant Index of Biotic
Integrity (PIBI)
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A Plant Index of Biotic Integrity for Drowned River Mouth Coastal Wetlands of Lake Michigan
Development, Calibration and Validation of a Littoral Zone Plant Index of Biotic Integrity (PIBI) for Lacustrine Wetlands
Development of Multimetric Indices of Biotic Integrity for Riverine and Palustrine Wetland Plant Communities along Southern Lake Michigan
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QUALITATIVE HABITAT
ASSESSMENT
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Qualitative Habitat
Evaluation Index (QHEI)
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Methods for the Assessment of Habitat using the Qualitative Habitat Evaluation Index (QHEI)
Ohio EPA QHEI Field Sheet
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PHY-HAB Index
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EMAP - Physical Habitat Method
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STRESSOR
IDENTIFICATION
METHOD
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A local scale in situ approach for stressor identification of biologically impaired aquatic systems.
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TEMPERATURE
MONITORING
Thermal discharge plume
characterization
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Automatic Device Method
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Methods for the Quantification of Thermal Discharge Plumes based on the Placement of Automatic Recording Devices (based on Zaraban, 2000)
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Transect Method
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Methods for the Instantaneous Measurement of Thermal Discharge Plumes Based on Transect Methods
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WATER CHEMISTRY ASSESSMENT
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Alkalinity
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ASTM 2320
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Conductivity
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ASTM 2510
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Dissolved Oxygen
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ASTM D888
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Hardness
(mg/L CaCO3)
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ASTM 2340
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Oxidation Reduction Potential
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ASTM 2580
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pH
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ASTM D1293-99(2005)
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Total Dissolved Solids
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ASTM 2540
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Turbidity
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ASTM 2130
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Water Temperature
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ASTM 2550
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