Kristine Stepenuck, PhD, is the Associate Director and Extension Leader for Lake Champlain Sea Grant Program and Extension Associate Professor of Watershed Science Policy and Education in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. Kris supports a national network of volunteer water monitoring programs by maintaining a collection of web-based learning modules with best practices, a jobs board, listserv, and events calendar at: www.volunteermonitoring.org. She currently serves on the National Water Quality Monitoring Council Volunteer Monitoring Working Group, and as a mentor to the Community Science Liaison between the National Sea Grant Network and the US Geological Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.