Trash Monitoring Workgroup
Data Standardization, Management, and Coordination
About the Subcommittee
Goals:
Support agency programs that monitor for trash and provide public data by removing data sharing barriers
Develop and share a trash taxonomy
Identify a trash data conversion system to facilitate trash load calculation across protocols
Respond to other subcommittee data needs
Identified Barriers:
Lack of time, outreach limitations
Next Steps:
Complete the vetting of the trash taxonomy
Complete the vetting of the trash density calculator
Present tools to interested workgroups
Subcommittee Leads
Data Standardization, Management, and Coordination Subcommittee
Win Cowger: wcowg001@ucr.edu
Tony Hale: tonyh@sfei.org
Learn More!
Discover more information about the Trash Monitoring Workgroup, attend our meetings, and sign up to the membership list at the official site:
2020 Trash Events
The State Water Board’s Office of Information Management and Analysis plans to host the following events in 2020, which will focus on addressing some of the questions above. Mark your calendars for the following events:
June 28-29, 2020, Sacramento
Oct – Nov 2020, Specific date(s) and Location TBD
More details on specific topics and event logistics coming soon!
If you are interested in hosting, collaborating with the State Water Boards, or participating in an event that will tackle some of these questions, please let us know by filling out our Trash Stakeholder Questions Survey!
