Taking samples is a key technique in environmental monitoring. Sample collection, when done well, can be cheap, numerous samples can be taken, and many people can participate in sample collection. Lead image from @warren's [work](https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/03-25-2019/water-sampling-workshop-with-a-mega-coqui-kit-with-one-cranston) ## Types of sampling Not all of these types of sampling have pages yet, but we are working together to collect these resources, so please help by editing this page: * [Water sampling](/wiki/water-sampling) * [Soil sampling](/wiki/soil-sampling) * [Air sampling](/wiki/air-sampling) * [Dust sampling](/wiki/dust-sampling) * [Spectrometry sampling](/wiki/spectrometry-sampling) Please add other types of sampling here as well. ## Questions Ask and answer general questions about sampling: [questions:sampling] ...
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| warren | " Noting as a reference, this interesting video on making maps of conductivity data! @mimiss " | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| CarloA | "One of the best experiences of my time at university when I have had the chance to do a internship at http://www.berthold-bio.com and learn a lot o..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "Here's another resource for soil sampling procedures: https://archive.epa.gov/region9/toxic/web/pdf/ee-soilsampling-sop-env-3-13.pdf. " | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "Table 8.2 in that doc is particularly useful. " | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "Here is a great reference document that helps parse out some different types of sampling for different study designs, depths of samples, etc. We co..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "What do you think of the ones that are transparent on all four sides? That way the cuvettes can be used for trans, abs, flores, or turbidity. The..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Also, we're very interested in turbidity measurements -- there's a lot coming together here: https://publiclab.org/wiki/turbidity and this seems li..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Wow, just going through this, it's amazing. Would you be willing to repost your blog in full so folks could reproduce the steps on the site here? L..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| zengirl2 | "There's also this post on sensors from this Public Lab post. " | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "Hi Stevie, in my experience, it really depends on what the end goals are (e.g. assessing general/chronic conditions or synopses of specific conditi..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| stevie | "I've found a couple systems for grab sampling. It seems as though there are some commercially available systems such as the Summa Canister, but the..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Some questions I have: How important (and for what types of sampling) is refrigeration? How quickly do different types of samples have to be shipp..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| liz | "Upstate New York has learned the hard way about soil toxicity: after winning a court battle against Tonawanda Coke, this community science group is..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Via @shannon, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) posted this: LABB quick report on the need for soil sampling post-Katrina: http://labucketbrigad..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "@eustatic mentioned the segment on soil sampling in the Oil Testing Booklet we did: https://publiclab.org/wiki/diy-oil-testing-questions#Collect+a+..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| jakemartin | "A L2F is a light to frequency converter. This would work for any fluorescing oils such as crude oil. To distinguish them you would need to look a..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "Wow, this sounds very cool! What's an L2F detector? Would this work for other fluorescing oils and would it be likely to be able to distinguish the..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| Slavik | "Looking for affordable alternative of http://store.vstapps.com/collections/frontpage/products/vst-lab-cof-esp-iii-refractometer " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "Oh, it doesn't have to be CC-BY-SA -- it could be CC-BY; your permission here wouldn't be CC-licensing but just a one-off to us, right? The only re..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "Photo rules at GRN are a bit sensitive just now. I can give you permission to use them with attribution ("by Gulf Restoration Network") immediatel..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, Scott - we're using some of the photos you posted here in our report, but I was curious if you'd release the linked-to albums under CC-BY or CC..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Yes! annchen is someone else, i guess. I didn't use @ so whoever that is doesn't get another email :-) " | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "isn't Ann Chen @ann? " | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "Epic Chen-terview " | Read more » | almost 9 years ago |