Welcome!

This is an online reference and resource written by and for the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) at the California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board).

The SWAMP Team is composed of multiple team members at the State Water Board within the SWAMP Unit, SWAMP Information Management and Quality Assurance Center (SWAMP IQ), and others in the Office of Information Management and Analysis (OIMA).

Content in this manual includes curated information that members of the SWAMP Team have found helpful to support onboarding/offboarding, collaboration, communication, and our collective culture. It is a place to document institutional knowledge and provide references to available resources.

This Quarto book is an open, living, and continuously iterating resource. If you have suggestions for additions or revisions you think should be incorporated into this book, please follow the guidance provided in the Contributing chapter.