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Air sampling
- FSAI001.01 Preparation of Air Sampling Tubes and Resin Jars. C. Ganapathy, 2003. (PDF, 774 kb)
- FSAI003.00 Conducting a Trapping Efficiency Study for Air Monitoring using Standard in Solvent. C. Ganapathy, 2003. (PDF, 137 kb)
Soil sampling
- FSSO001.00 Soil Bulk Density Determination. C. Garretson, 1999. (PDF, 204 kb)
- FSSO002.00 Soil Sampling, Including Auger and Surface Soil Procedures. C. Garretson, 1999. (PDF, 522 kb)
- FSSO004.00 Measuring Infiltration Rate with a Cornell Sprinkle Infiltrometer. H. Dietrich, 2005. (PDF, 323 kb)
Other types of sampling
- FSOT001.01 Sampling Plants of Interest to Native Americans. Environmental Measurement Methods. R. Segawa, 1997. (PDF, 376 kb)
- FSOT002.01 Instructions for the Calibration and Use of a Spherical Densiometer. A. Washburn, 2004. (PDF, 212 kb)
- FSOT003.00 Determining Height and Slope using the Clino Master. J. Bacey, 2003. (PDF, 223 kb)
- FSOT004.00 Using the Garmin GPSIII+ Unit. H. Imgrund, 2003. (PDF, 157 kb)
- FSOT005.00 Mass Deposition Sampling Using Mass Deposition Sheets. J. Walters, 2003. (PDF, 64 kb)
- FSOT006.00 Procedure for Sampling Foliage for Pesticide Residue. P. Gurusinghe, 2006. (PDF, 124 kb)
- FSOT007.00 Procedure for Sampling Pesticide Application Equipment. R. Sava, 2008. (PDF, 227 kb)
Water sampling
- FSWA001.01 Obtaining and Preserving Well Water Samples. C. Nordmark and L. Pinera-Pasquino, 2008. (PDF, 730 kb), Permission Form (PDF, 70 kb), Well Information Form (PDF, 168 kb), DWR Well Data Form Instructions (PDF, 92 kb), DWR Well Data Form (PDF, 76 kb), Chain of Custody Form (PDF, 120 kb).
- FSWA002.00 Conducting Surface Water Monitoring for Pesticides. K. Bennett, 1997. (PDF, 58 kb)
- FSWA003.01 Equal-Width-Increment Sampling of Surface Waters. D. Jones, 1999. (PDF, 36 kb)
- FSWA004.00 Instructions for Splitting Water and Rinsing the Geotech Dekaport Splitterand Splitting Equipment. C. Ganapathy, 1998. (PDF, 97 kb)
- FSWA005.00 Instructions for Rinsing Surface Water Sampling Containers. C. Garretson and C. Ganapathy, 1998. (PDF, 49 kb)
- FSWA006.01 Selection of a Suitable Wells and Study Sites for Ground Water Monitoring. C. Nordmark and L. Pinera-Pasquino, 2008. (PDF, 249 kb)
- FSWA007.00 Instructions for Preserving Water Samples Using Hydrochloric Acid (HCL). A. Bradley, and C. Ganapathy, 1998. (PDF, 30 kb)
- FSWA008.00 Sampling for Surface Water Runoff in Agricultural Fields. F. Spurlock, 1999. (PDF, 67 kb)
- FSWA009.01 Procedure for Determining Wadable Stream Discharge With Price Current Meters. A. Moncada, 2004. (PDF, 406 kb)
- FSWA010.00 Instructions for Sampling Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Wadable Waters Using the Multi- habitat Method (Non-point Source). J. Bacey, 2003. (PDF, 514 kb)
- FSWA013.00 Instructions for Sampling Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Wadable Waters Using the California Stream Bioassessment Procedure (Non-point Source). J. Bacey, 2003. (PDF, 622 kb)
- FSWA014.01 Instructions for the Use of the Global FP101 and FP201 Flow Probe for Estimating Discharge in Wadable Streams. M. Goehring, 2008. (PDF, 198 kb)
- FSWA015.00 Instructions for Sampling Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Wadeable Waters Using the Modified U.S. EPA EMAP Method. J. Bacey and A. Moncada, 2004. (PDF, 928 kb)
- FSWA016.00 Procecure for Collecting Sediment for Pesticide Analysis. M. Mamola, 2005. (PDF, 242 kb)
Administrative and QA/QC SOPs (SOP numbers beginning with "ADMN" and "QAQC")
Equipment SOPs (SOP numbers beginning with "EQ")
Data and Method SOPs (SOP numbers beginning with "DATA" and "METH")