The Colorado Data Sharing Network has issued a Call for Data in sync with the Colorado Water Quality Control Division Data Call.
Colorado Data Sharing Network is excited to announce that for the first time the CDPHE Environmental Data Unit which collects data for WQCD, will be partnering with CDSN so that those entities already uploading data meeting the WQCD guidelines will not have to be resubmitted to WQCD via the Environmental Data Unit. 2012 is a pilot year for the CDSN and WQCD partnership. If you have data stored in the CDSN AWQMS database and would like to submit data to WQCD directly from CDSN AWQMS, please download and read both the CDSN and WQCD data call documents: CDSN 2012 Data Call Details | WQCD 2012 Request for Water Quality Data for the Arkansas and Rio Grande River Basins Triennial Review.
CDSN is issuing a Data Call for all basins, in conjunction with the CDPHE WQCD "Request for Water Quality Data for the Arkansas and Rio Grande Basins Triennial Review." The deadline for data submitted as part of this data call is April 30, 2012. We are asking our participating organizations to upload all of their available data prior to April 30.
Any entity collecting water quality or environmental data in Colorado is welcome to join CDSN and being uploading their data into AWQMS. Please contact the Project Coordinators, Lynn Padgett & Jeff Litteral at 970-626-4045 (cwqmc@coloradowaterquality.org) right away for more details.
Please check back here often, as we are finalizing a WQCD import configuration file in AWQMS and will be posting an AWQMS/WQCD data format comparison table here soon.
Thank you to Leonard Rice Engineers for providing an excellent meeting space for our successful Jan. 31 Sustainability meeting.
The January 31 sustainability planning meeting was well attended. Thank you to everyone who joined us. At the meeting we celebrated the successes of the Colorado Data Sharing Network and embarked on a new effort to design a strategic plan to sustain the DSN long term. Our supporters have made this network a reality and momentum is gaining!
As part of our sustainability planning we have designed an e-survey. Survey responses are a critical part of our sustainabilty planning to make sure we understand your needs for Colorado water and environmental data. Please take our survey:
After release of the CDSN Google-Map in Spring 2011, we have been busy giving presentations, holding trainings, webinars, and SWAPS. Recent Presentations & Media, New Data Generator Checklists/Info Sheets & Fall 2011 Webinar Training Materials are on the Resources, Materials and Media page.
Upcoming Trainings
CDSN conducts trainings at SWAP events and conducts custom data upload, download and/or map user trainings upon request. We offer one-on-one upload/AWQMS/map training, group trainings upon request, and small group webinars. We have held several very successful Webinars and group trainings which have focused on highlighting how the public could interact with AWQMS database to download and analyze data, and to highlight our interactive web map. Webinar dates in 2012 are on our calendar. RSVP today.
To schedule assistance or a training, please contact the Project Coordinators at: 970.626.4045
The Colorado Data Sharing Network was created by the Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council. This project receives funding from the Colorado Water Quality Control Division (WQCD) through an EPA section 319 nonpoint source (NPS) grant and from contributions to the Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council. Additional support is provided by:
CWQMC Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for oversight and accountability (Match Activities)
CWQMC Members
319 Non-Point Source Project Sponsors
Interested Parties
CDSN Objectives
To establish a water quality data management system that meets the needs of Colorado’s NPS Grant Program and local data providers (manages input, output and simple manipulations for monitoring results).
Support and maintain web-based map to compliment the data management system that shares monitoring locations and water data.
Establish a directory to share contact information of water data users and generators throughout the state, monitoring objectives, what is being monitored and how. This objective is being accomplished through the development of the "Colorado Water Data User/Generator Directory".
To actively nurture use of the system state-wide.
To implement a sustainable strategy for future support and use.
The CDSN project has completed a multi-year transition from the decommissioned STORET database to a WQX compatible database. We have a new, more powerful, and increasingly user-friendly toolkit to submit and retrieve data from the CDSN project database. This new database and tool kit is called AWQMS (Ambient Water Quality Monitoring System). We have a wish-list of enhancements we are looking for funding to accomplish.
CDSN offers trainings, tutoring, webinars, and custom data formatting and upload/download training. The CWQMC also offers mentoring through the Mentoring Committee. Please contact the Project Coordinators to learn about these opportunities and to explore uploading your data into the database. The database has the ability to store water quality, biological, and stream habitat data.
Mentoring - Watershed Project Design & Quality Assurance Assistance; Data Formatting & Upload Assistance (by Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council)Go
The CDSN project has completed a multi-year transition from the decommissioned STORET database to a WQX compatible database. We have a new, more powerful, and increasingly user-friendly toolkit to submit and retrieve data from the CDSN project database. This new database and tool kit is called AWQMS (Ambient Water Quality Monitoring System). We have a wish-list of enhancements we are looking for funding to accomplish.
CDSN offers trainings, tutoring, webinars, and custom data formatting and upload/download training. The CWQMC also offers mentoring through the Mentoring Committee. Please contact the Project Coordinators to learn about these opportunities and to explore uploading your data into the database. The database has the ability to store water quality, biological, and stream habitat data.
CDSN 2012 Data Call Details
Support and maintain web-based map to compliment the data management system that shares monitoring locations and water data. 
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