University of Rhode Island Watershed Watch (URIWW), RI: water quality monitoring, 1988-2010

The URI Watershed Watch (URIWW) is a volunteer water quality monitoring program that works with local communities to assess water quality. Led by trained scientists, URI Watershed Watch helps local governments, watershed, tribal and other organizations recruit and train volunteers to become citizen scientists gathering detailed, quality assured monitoring data. This watershed-based program focuses on long-term environmental monitoring of RI's fresh and salt water resources including lakes, ponds, streams and coastal waters. URIWW staff provides training, equipment, supplies and analytical services tailored to organizational needs, while meeting strict quality assurance and quality control guidelines in the field and in our state-certified water testing laboratory.
Sites included for LAGOS purposes are classified as Lakes by URIWW program. Tidally-influenced or salt pond sites were excluded. A single site was selected for the handful of lakes/reservoirs with 2 sampling site records, and a limited number of other lakes were excluded if they were sampled in only 1 year and for a subset of variables. Otherwise, all sites classified as lakes by URIWW are included in the LAGOS-relevant files.

URI流域监测计划（URI Watershed Watch，简称URIWW）是一项志愿水质监测项目，与当地社区合作开展水质评估工作。该项目由经过专业培训的科学家主导，协助地方政府、流域管理机构、部落及其他相关组织招募并培训志愿者，使其成为公民科学家，采集详细且经质量保证的监测数据。这项以流域为基础的项目专注于长期环境监测，覆盖罗德岛州（Rhode Island，简称RI）的淡水与咸水资源，包括湖泊、池塘、溪流及近海水域。URIWW的工作人员会根据合作组织的需求定制培训、设备、耗材及分析服务，同时严格遵循野外作业与经州级认证的水质检测实验室内的质量保证与质量控制规范。
为适配LAGOS项目要求而纳入的监测点位，需经URIWW项目归类为湖泊类点位。受潮汐影响的点位或咸水池塘点位均被排除在外。对于仅有2条采样点位记录的少量湖泊/水库，仅选取其中1个点位纳入；对于仅在1个年份内采样且仅测定部分变量的少量其他湖泊，也予以排除。除此之外，所有经URIWW归类为湖泊类的监测点位，均被纳入与LAGOS相关的数据集文件中。