Tools: Mapping and Online Training

Mapping

NJ DEP Surf Your New Jersey Watershed	Locate and learn about your local watershed.
NJ DEP Geographic Information Systems	GIS environmental mapping information available for your neighborhood, county, and the state of New Jersey.
New Jersey Geological Survey	Interactive geological mapping, including many geological features, pollution and water resource locations.
NJ Interactive Brownfields mapping	Learn the locations of brownfields in New Jersey, also includes GIS metadata.
National Wetlands Inventory with Wetlands Mapper	GIS based maps of wetlands in all of the United States.

Online Training Tools

Clean Water Act Online Tutorial	The River Network's on-line tutorial to familiarize citizens with the Clean Water Act.
Kentucky Macroinvertebrate Guide	Kentucky Water Watch provides information on benthic macroinvertibrates and bio monitoring.
NEMO Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials	Educational tools for land-use planners, created by the University of Connecticut.
OWLS - Object Watershed Link Simulation Hydrology Model	2-D and 3-D watershed hydrology, stream channel dynamic changes, and more provided by Oregon State University.
NJ Water Monitoring Coordinating Council	All aspects of water monitoring in New Jersey.
NJ Volunteer Monitoring and Watershed Watch Program	NJDEP volunteer water monitoring information and Field Sampling Procedures
NJ Watershed Management Outreach and Education Program	NJDEP Outreach & Education: learn to be a volunteer watershed monitor.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Powerpoint Presentations	Visual information on water monitoring purpose and procedure.
U.S. EPA Online Training in Watershed Management	Train yourself at home: watershed ecology, analysis, planning, management, and community impact.
US EPA Rapid Bioassessment Protocols for Use in Streams and Wadeable Rivers	Periphyton, Benthic Macroinvertebrates, and Fish
USGS Tutorial	National Water Information System Web site, information on HUC (Hydrologic Unit Codes), accessing stream-flow data, and accessing water-quality data.
Virginia SOS Stream Study	On-line macroinvertebrate training.