Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Overview of the sampling process / Michael J. Barcelona -- Sampling for tests of hypothesis when data are correlated in space and time / Leon E. Borgman and William F. Quimby -- Nonparametric geostatistics for risk and additional sampling assessment / Andre G. Journel -- Geostatistical approaches to the design of sampling regimes / George T. Flatman, Evan J. Englund, and Angelo A. Yfantis -- Defining quality assurance and quality control sampling requirements : expert systems as aids / Lawrence H. Keith, M. Timothy Johnston, and David L. Lewis -- Defining the accuracy, precision, and confidence limits of sample data / John K. Taylor -- Defining control sites and blank sample needs / Stuart C. Black -- Assessing and controlling sample contamination / David L. Lewis -- Storage and preservation of environmental samples / M.P. Maskarinec and R.L. Moody -- Evaluating and presenting quality assurance sampling data / Franklin Smith ... {et al.}. Sampling waters : the impact of sample variability on planning and confidence levels / U.M. Cowgill -- Assessment of measurement uncertainity : designs for two heteroscedastic error components / Walter S. Liggett -- Modern sampling equipment : design and application / Lorance H. Newburn -- Preservation techniques for organic and inorganic compounds in water samples / Jerry Parr ... {et al.} -- Sampling groundwater monitoring wells : special quality assurance and quality control considerations / Robert T. Kent and Katherine E. Payne -- Techniques for sampling surface and industrial waters : special considerations and choices / James E. Norris -- Groundwater sampling / James S. Smith ... {et al.} -- Effects of environmental measurement variability on air quality decisions / John G. Watson -- Airborne sampling and in situ measurement of atmospheric chemical species / Roger L. Tanner -- Sampling for organic compounds / John B. Clements and Robert G. Lewis -- Aerometric measurement requirements for quantifying dry deposition / B.B. Hicks, T.P. Meyers, and D.D. Baldocchi -- Quality control infusion into stationary source sampling / James A. Peters -- Coping with sampling variability in biota : percentiles and other strategies / Richard Albert and William Horwitz -- Sample size : relation to analytical and quality assurance and quality control requirements / John B. Bourke, Terry D. Spittler, and Susan J. Young -- Composite sampling for environmental monitoring / Forest C. Garner, Martin A. Stapanian, and Llewellyn R. Williams -- Considerations for preserving biotic samples / Terry D. Spittler and John B. Bourke -- Sampling variability in soils and solid wastes / Elly K. Triegel -- Relations of sampling design to analytical precision estimates / Larry J. Holcombe -- Preservation techniques for samples of solids, sludges, and nonaqueous liquids / Larry I. Bone -- Sampling and analysis of hazardous and industrial wastes : special quality assurance and quality control considerations / Larry P. Jackson.