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ITEP Resources::
Environmental Technical Resources:
Turbo-QAPP:
- Turbo-QAPP is a program enabling tribes to write their own Quality Assurance Project Plans interactively (like Turbo-Tax)
and "asks" users a series of questions to create a QAPP. The software guides the user and writes user-entered material
into a text file that can be printed and modified. It includes extensive help files, definitions, and lists of options. It adds
repeated text in multiple locations in the finished document, thereby guiding users through tedious and repetitive sections
that are often cited as stumbling blocks to completing a QAPP. It is and will stay consistent with the QC requirements for the
criteria pollutants in EPA guidance and regulations. Turbo-QAPP focuses on the important aspects of the program first
(e.g.; "why are we making these measurements?") but then places this material in the appropriate elements of the QAPP.
The program suggests options for parameters that are commonly-used for that type of monitoring, pollutant, etc., while always
allowing users to enter their own text. The software also provides a platform for additional types of programs, such as water
quality or radiation monitoring.
Tribes interested in the Turbo-QAPP software should contact: Melinda.ronca-battista@nau.edu.
Tribal Data Toolbox:
- The Tribal Data Toolbox is a stand-alone MS Access database written for tribal offices to manage their own environmental data.
As now available, it can manage air monitoring data, including administrative (site, sampler, QC equipment), operational (importing
and flagging data), analytical (QC reports, summary reports, charts, ozone NAAQS calculations), and reporting (AQS-format file
generation for all pollutant and met data). The Toolbox is form-driven, so that the user does not need to know Access programming
to use it. The Toolbox has been tested in many tribal programs and accommodates a wide variety of instruments and dataloggers. All
data tables, charts, and reports are easily exportable to MS Word, Excel or Adobe, and the Toolbox could be adapted to manage non-air
environmental data.
ITEP offers classroom courses on Toolbox, and will have an online course available in the summer of 2008. Tribes interested in the
Toolbox should contact Angelique Luedeker at Angelique.luedeker@nau.edu.
Conversion resources:
- Data Powers of Ten:
Computer data representation and number systems with Data Converters, Bit(s) and Byte(s) conversion, calculate estimated file download time, Data Terms, and much more. An excellent resource.
www.danbbs.dk/~erikoest/dp.htm
- MegaConverter:
This is a world favorite educational and research site, giving you an easier to use interface, with more converters, more features and quicker access.
www.megaconverter.com/
ENV Glossary resources:
- EPA's Terms of Environment: Glossary, Abbreviations, and Acronyms:
Terms of Environment defines in non-technical language the more commonly used environmental terms appearing in EPA publications, news releases, and other Agency documents available to the general public, students, the media, and Agency employees.
www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/
- Terminology Reference System:
The Terminology Reference System (TRS) has been created as a single resource of environmental terminology for the Agency by compiling collections of terms from EPA and other sources.
www.epa.gov/trs/
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