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The Volunteer Monitor, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1995. 24 pp.

The Volunteer Monitor newsletter facilitates the exchange of ideas, monitoring methods, and practical advice among volunteer environmental monitoring groups across the nation. This issue was published by the New Hampshire Lakes Lay Monitoring Program, a collaborative effort between the University of New Hampshire and lake and watershed associations across the state. This particular issue is titled ‘Managing and Presenting your Data’. It talks about all the things you need to do after your monitoring information is collected, such as how you get those numbers into a format that makes sense to yourself and others, and how you turn your data into a story. The steps are summarized in the following schematic: data, entry & validation, preliminary summary, interpretation (findings, conclusion, and recommendations), presentation to different audiences, and use. These sections are discussed in detail in the articles throughout the issue, such as "Designing a Data Management System" and "Using Graphs to tell a Story".

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