Data from Selected U.S. Geological Survey National Stream Water-Quality Monitoring Networks (WQN) on CD-ROM
Open-File Report 96-337

By Richard B. Alexander, Amy S. Ludtke, Kathleen K. Fitzgerald, and Terry L. Schertz

Preface

The authors would like to acknowledge the many individuals who assisted in the development and review of the report, data sets, and graphics published on the CD-ROMs. We thank the technical reviewers Janice Ward, William Battaglin, Richard Coupe, and Randy Parker. Their recommendations greatly improved the organization and content of the report and CD-ROM data bases. We especially thank Richard Coupe for providing additional reviews of preliminary versions of the CD-ROMs and Janice Ward for providing administrative guidance during the development of the CD-ROMs. We thank Alan Lumb for administrative support that allowed Larry Briel to contribute his valuable data management skills to the project. We thank John Briggs and Timothy Miller for assistance in obtaining information on historical network operations. Thanks to Richard Smith and Gregory Schwarz for discussions and valued input on various water-quality and quality-assurance topics. Steve Glodt and Thomas Maloney of the National Water Quality Laboratory in Denver, Colorado and Herman Feltz and Bernard Malo provided important information on laboratory analytical methods used currently and historically by the USGS. Donald Dolnack performed the many daily streamflow retrievals from the USGS centralized data base, and Jerry Casile patiently retrieved water-quality data from each of the USGS District computers. Linda Geiger assisted in reviewing preliminary versions of the CD-ROMs. We thank Patricia Greene for the layout of the CD-ROM cover and inserts. Also, we thank Frances Buchanan for the production of final versions of the illustrations, Marie Nofs of the National Water Quality Assessment Program for her assistance in scanning water-quality memoranda into digital form, Dawn Fuller for her assistance in editing text and graphical data files, and Sharon Cline and Joyce Soloman for technical assistance with graphical software.


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