How to Determine Your Site ID Number

In order to make the web-based database organized and searchable, you need to identify the specific site where you have collected data from. To do this, follow the sequence below and be sure to write this 7-digit alphanumeric value at the top of every data sheet. You will be asked to enter this number in the database so that we can keep track of information from different sites from year-to-year.

Step 1. Since you are sampling the Bear River Watershed, write: BR

Step 2. Identify the county that you are sampling in from the list below and write down the number associated with it:
1.    Uinta County (WY)
2.   Rich County (UT)
3.    Lincoln County (WY)
4.    Bear Lake County (ID)
5.    Caribou County (ID)
6.    Franklin County (ID)
7.    Cache County (UT)
8.    Oneida County (ID)
9.    Box Elder County (UT)

Step 3. Identify your individual school from the list below and write down the letters associated with it:

EHS    Evanston High School (WY)

CES    Cokeville Elementary (WY)

CHS    Cokeville High School (WY)

AJWE    AJ Winters Elementary (ID)

BLMS    Bear Lake Middle School (ID)

HES    Hooper Elementary (ID)

TES    Thatcher Elementary (ID)

WHS    Weston High School (ID)

SCMS    Spring Creek Middle School (UT)

SCC    South Cache Center (UT)

MLMS    Mount Logan Middle School (UT)

CVLC    Cache Valley Learning Center (UT)

SNL    The School of Natural Learning (UT)

CAHS    Cache High School (UT)

LHS    Logan High School (UT)

AYIS    Adele C. Young Intermediate School (UT)

BRHS    Bear River High School (UT)

Step 4. Pick a number from 1-99 that is unique to each site you visit with your students. You can describe each of these sites in detail under "Name of Site" on the database.

Here is an example of how to determine the Site ID Number:
Students at Cache Valley Learning Center are going to sample a tributary site called Summit Creek led by their teacher Bill Masslich. They are sampling within the Bear River basin, so they first write "BR." Their sampling site is in Cache County so they next write "7." From the list above, their write their school abbreviation which is "CVLC." Bill decides to call this spot on Summit Creek "1" because it is their original site. If he visits other streams or different reaches of Summit Creek, he will call these "2", "3".... and so on. Therefore, the site ID would be recorded as: BR7CVLC1