SWAMP Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Site Reconnaissance & Safety

• SOP - Site Reconnaissance Guide (2017)

• Recommended Minimum Health and Safety Guidelines for SWAMP Field Activities (2018) 

Bioassessment - Algae, BMIs, Field

• SOP (Field) - Collection of Field Data for Ambient Bioassessments of California Wadeable Streams: Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Algae, and Physical Habitat (2025)

• SOP (Field) - Supplemental-Guidance Document for SWAMP Bioassessment Field Protocol (2025)

• SOP (Field) - Conducting Field Measurement and Field Collections of Water and Bed Sediment Samples with Associated Field Measurement and Physical Habitat in California Version 1.1-MPSL-CDFW (2014)

• SOP (Field) - California Rapid Assessment Method for Wetlands (CRAM) http://www.cramwetlands.org/

• ‎SOP (Lab) - Laboratory Processing, Identification, and Enumeration of Stream Algae (2015)

• SOP (Lab) - Internal and External Quality Control of Laboratory Processing, Identification and Enumeration of Stream Algae in California (2019)

• SOP (Lab) - Laboratory Processing and Identification of Benthic Macroinvertebrates in California (2012)

• SOP (Lab) - Appendix B: Aquatic Bioassessment Laboratory Protocol for the SWAMP Database

• SOP (Lab) - External Quality Control of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Taxonomy Data Collected for Stream Bioassessment in California (2015)

• SOP/Template Guidance for Entering CSCI Scores (2021)

Water & Sediment Chemistry, Tissue Chemistry & Indicator Bacteria

• SOP - Indicator Bacteria Data Verification (2021)

• SOP - Chemistry Data Verification (2021)

• SOP - Conversion and Data Reporting for Benthic Chlorophyll a, Pheophytin & AFDM (2012) 

• SOP - Bioaccumulation Program Data Validation

Cyanobacteria - HABs

• SOP - HAB Field Guide - Site Reconnaissance (2017)

• HAB Field Guide - Glossary (2017)

• HAB Field Guide - CyanoHAB Laboratory List (2016)

• HAB Field Guide - Health and Safety Guide (2017) 

• HAB Field Guide - Cyanobacteria and Known Toxins Chart (2017)

• HAB Field Guide - Freshwater Cyanotoxin Producers Chart (2020)

• HAB Field Guide - Visual Guide to Observing Blooms (2017)

Toxicity Testing

• SOP - Toxicity Data Review (2022)

• SOP (Field) - Conducting Fields Collections Of Bed Sediment Samples At Watershed Integrator Sites In The SWAMP SPoT Program