Register for MiCorps Membership

If you would like your organization to be considered for membership in the Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps), please complete the following online application. MiCorps membership organizations represent a select group of volunteer monitoring programs in Michigan and receive a variety of benefits as members.

In order to be eligible for membership, your organization must meet certain criteria established by MiCorps. Please review this Criteria for Membership carefully before completing the following application. As part of this application, you will be asked to upload a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) and a summary of your operating procedures, if available (instructions for uploading are provided below). Also, please be aware that by submitting your application, your organization will also be included in our directory of monitoring programs for Michigan.

Once we receive your online application, MiCorps staff will review your program information to ensure that you meet the membership criteria. We will then contact you to let you know whether or not your organization has been accepted for membership into MiCorps.

If you have any questions please contact Laura Kaminski at 734-971-9135, laurak@glc.org. Thank you for your interest in becoming a member of MiCorps!

Program Contact Information

1. Name:
2. Title:
3. Email:
4. Organization:
5. Department:
6. Address:
7. City:
8. State:
9. Zip code:
10. Phone: - -
11. Fax: - -
12. Organization web site: http://

Quality Assurance and Operating Procedures

1. Is there a quality assurance project plan (QAPP) in place for your monitoring program?  
Yes No Not sure
2. If you answered yes to the question above, has it been approved by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and/or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency?   
DEQ Approved Being Reviewed by DEQ
EPA Approved Being Reviewed by EPA
Other (specify: )

3. If you answered no, would your organization be willing to develop a quality assurance project plan (QAPP) for approval by Michigan Department of Environmental Quality?  
Yes No Not sure

 

4. If your QAPP has been approved by DEQ or EPA, please fax a copy of the signature page to the Great Lakes Commission at 734-971-9150, attn: Beth Johnson.

5. Upload your program's quality assurance project plan (QAPP) if available:

 

6. Please identify your program's operating procedures (e.g. volunteer operating procedures, sampling protocols, other methodologies).
DEQ Procedure 51 EPA Rapid Bioassessment
DEQ Volunteer Procedures Green Program Methods
Other (specify: )

 

7. How do you currently document your program's operating procedures?
State approved QAPP Basic monitoring plan
EPA approved QAPP Not formally documented
Other (specify: )

8. Upload your program's operating procedures if they are not included in the QAPP:

9. As a MiCorps member, your organization will be required to electronically submit all monitoring data into the MiCorps data exchange network. Does your organization agree to submit your data electronically to the data exchange network?  
Yes No Not sure

Program Description

1. Program title: 

2. Program description (overall purpose of the monitoring program):
3. Program web site (if available):
http://
4. Program start date: Year Month
5. Current status: Active   Inactive  

6. If inactive, please specify program end date: Year Month


7. Which of the following best describes your volunteer monitoring program?
Adult-based volunteer monitoring program. (Adults are the primary volunteer monitors. Children can also participate if accompanied by an adult.)
K-12 school-based monitoring programs. (Students from grades K-12 are the primary volunteer monitors.)
University- or college-based monitoring programs. (Students and/or student interns from universities or colleges are the primary data collectors.)
Other (please explain: )

8. Program advisors: (e.g. larger watershed organization, advisory group, etc.) 

9. Organizations you partner with to conduct monitoring activities:
10. Affiliation if your monitoring program is part of a national, statewide, or regional network: (e.g., Adopt-a-Stream, etc.)

Geographic Description

1. Please check types of environments monitored:
River/Stream   Inland Lake/Pond   Great Lakes/Connecting Waters  
Other (please explain: )

2. County(s) monitored - Hold down control key to select more than one:
3. Watershed(s) monitored - Hold down control key to select more than one:

4. Please list the water body(s) monitored by your organization.


5. On average, how many specific sites within the water body(s) listed above are monitored each year? 

Monitoring Parameters and Data Use

1. For Inland Lake/Pond and Great Lakes/Connecting Waters monitoring programs, please indicate which parameters your program measures:
Algae E. coli Organic-N  
Alkalinity Fecal coliform pH
Ammonia-N Fish Phosphate
BOD Hardness Phosphorus (total)
Carbon Dioxide Heavy metals Secchi disk
Chlorides Macroinvertebrate Sulfate
Chlorophyll Macrophyte/Veg. Temperature
Conductivity Nitrate-N Transparency
Depth Nitrite-N Turbidity
Dissolved Oxygen Nitrogen (total) Water Level

 

2. For River/Stream monitoring programs, please indicate which parameters your program measures:
Algae E. coli Phosphate
Alkalinity Fecal coliform Phosphorus (total)
Ammonia-N Fish Riparian Zone Quality
BOD Hardness Substrate
Carbon Dioxide Heavy Metals Sulfate
Channel morphology Macroinvertebrate Temperature
Chlorides Macrophyte/Vegetation Transparency
Chlorophyll Nitrate-N Turbidity
Conductivity Nitrite-N Velocity
Cover Nitrogen (total) Water Level
Depth Organic-N Width
Dissolved Oxygen pH
     
3. Please list any other parameters measured by your monitoring program:

4. Do you send your volunteer water quality samples to a lab for analysis?  
Yes No

5. If yes, what types of lab do you use?
Federal State Municipal University Commercial
Other (describe: )

 

6. If no, how are samples analyzed?
Internally; Organization's Lab
Parameter Kit (e.g. Hach Kit, GREEN Kit)
Field Instrument/Meter
Other (describe: )

 
7. To whom are your monitoring data reported?
Federal agency State agency Municipal agency University
Private entity General public Organization members
Other (list: )

 

8. What format is used to store the data? (e.g. Excel, Access, paper)

 

Staffing, Volunteers and Training
1. How many total staff participate in your monitoring activities?
2. How many total volunteers participate in your monitoring activities?

 

3. Please estimate the total number of hours dedicated annually to your monitoring program by staff.  
0-500 hours 500-1,000 hours 1,000-1,500 hours 1,500-2,000 hours > 2,000 hours

4. Please estimate the total number of hours dedicated annually to your monitoring program by volunteers.  
0-500 hours 500-1,000 hours 1,000-1,500 hours 1,500-2,000 hours > 2,000 hours

5. Is training provided to volunteers?  
Yes No

6. If yes, who provides the training?
Paid program staff DEQ
Other governmental entities Scientists/monitoring professionals
Contractor/service provider Guest presenters
Program-trained volunteers Returning trainers
Other (please explain: )  

Funding/Resources for Program Implementation and Management

1. What is your organization's approximate annual budget?
< $10,000 $100,000-$250,000
$10,000-$25,000 $250,000-$500,000
$25,000-$50,000 $500,000-$1,000,000
$50,000-$100,000 >$1,000,000

 

2. What is your volunteer monitoring program's approximate annual budget?
< $5,000 $50,000-$75,000
$5,000-$20,000 > $100,000
$20,000-$50,000  

Additional Information

1. General Comments:
Please answer the following question (to eliminate computer-generated submissions): How many months are there in a year?

Please send any additional program documentation describing your monitoring program to:

Laura Kaminski
Great Lakes Commission
Eisenhower Corporate Park
2805 South Industrial Hwy., Suite 100
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: 734-971-9135
Fax: 734-971-9150
Email: laurak@glc.org




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