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Authors: Mindy Vanderford, Marquardt, R. Hunter Anderson
Published: June 2013 in Battelle volume N/A pages N/A.
The Monitoring and Remediation Optimization System (MAROS)software was developed by GSI on behalf of the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC, formerly AFCEE) in 1998 as a public-domain, data management and evaluation tool specifically designed to improve long-term groundwater monitoring (LTM) programs (Aziz et al., 2003). Recently, the MAROS software has been upgraded to expand statistical and decision logic tools to address the needs of monitoring optimization as well as remedy performance reviews. Version 3.0 (released Sept. 2012)of the MAROS freeware is a Microsoft(MS) Access database application employing simple statistics and decision frameworks to prioritize data collection efforts and link data to defensible site management decisions.The design of MAROS 3 had the goal of providing new and improved algorithms to review groundwater networks for optimized data collection and remedy performance evaluations. MAROS provides both: (1) optimization routines, to help determine the appropriate number of sampling locations, sampling frequency, and analytes for site monitoring objectives and (2) statistical analysis tools to evaluate the plume stability condition and remedy performance. Objectives for the MAROS upgrade included expanding statistical tools for individual well data, plume-level analyses and spatial optimization analyses.