Geoscience Library of Applied Technology

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Standards, Protocols & Guidelines

Site characterization is most reliable and most effective when its component efforts are conducted in a proven manner of efficient observation, detection, sampling, analysis, evaluation, interpretation and development of geologic conclusions, all made to specify site conditions for the engineer or engineering team that will design the project facility to perform in the manner desired by the owner. In this sense, the proven methods are, in order of decreasing consensus of authorship, standards, protocols and guidelines. Briefly stated, a standard represents a method or technique developed through consensus of discussion by a relatively large, formal group of (in this case geologists and, possibly, engineers).  A protocol represents a consensus method or technique prepared by a smaller or less formal group that that promulgating a standard. A guideline simply is a description of a uniform method or technique adopted by one or more persons as a guide to the scientific efficacy of their own site characterization effort.  These three methods of uniform methodology should be cited in the work product of site characterization efforts.

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