A valuable reference guide for both beginners and veterans of water quality analysis in natural aquatic systems. Provides a comprehensive overview of monitoring streams, lakes, rivers, and estuaries. Includes physical, biological, and chemical factors of water quality and analytical procedures for their measurement. The basics of waterway surveys, program planning, data analysis and reporting are also described. 71 pages.
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Monitor's Handbook
1507
Back to top The Water Quality Educator Teach your students and volunteer monitors all about Natural Water Quality Monitoring. Use the CD to plan and implement a special long-term service project, community outreach program, environmental course, and classroom and field trip pre-lab activity to test water quality in rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, estuaries, and other natural bodies of water.
The Water Quality Educator CD along with the Monitor's Handbook (code 5872) provides extensive training for the water scientist focusing on three aspects of water quality monitoring as practiced extensively by schools and communities throughout the world.
Water quality is monitored by testing for a variety of factors in three broad categories:
1. Chemical (Dissolved oxygen, nitrate, pH, phosphate, alkalinity)
2. Biological (Aquatic Macroinvertebrates as living indicators of water quality)
3. Microbiological (E. coli, total coliforms, fecal coliforms, Enterococcus)
This distinctive reference will guide you through the decisions that are made prior to testing to the analysis of the final results. Determine why you want to monitor. Select the site(s). What tests will give you the information you need to fulfill your objectives? During testing, this guide will show how to perform the test. After testing, it will interpret the results.
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The Water Quality Educator
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Back to top Living in Water Department of Education at the National Aquarium in Baltimore
An aquatic science textbook containing 50 activities that integrate physical, earth, and life science. It can be used as a complete curriculum or individual activities. Classroom based scientific studies of water aquatic environments and the plant and animals that live in water. Field studies can be adapted for use in any body of water from the ocean to a fish bowl. 395 pages.
Written by an elementary school teacher, this publication reviews one elementary school's efforts to bring back American shad to the Potomac River. With the help of the community and various government agencies, the school was inspired to take on a project that spanned several years of teh students' education and exposed them to the process of community cooperation, scientific procedures, the workings of gevernments, shared success, and considerations inmaking career choices. The text offers suggested steps to planning a successful water, wetland, or watershed project. Selected as 2005 "Conservation Book of the Year" by the Isaac Walton League of America in both youth and adult categories. 40 pages.
Reviewed and approved for inclusion in the NSTA Recommends program. NSTA Recommends received positive comments from a panel of outstanding science educators and recommends this publication as one of the best available supplements for science teaching.
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Let the River Run Silver Again!
1599
Back to top The Field Manual for Water Quality Monitoring Mitchell & Stapp
The Field Manual for Water Quality Monitoring (12th edition) by Mark Mitchell and William Stapp, serves as the standard text for school-based water quality monitoring programs in schools around the world. The manual describes nine water quality tests: dissolved oxygen, fecal coliform, pH, total solids, total phosphorus, nitrates, turbidity, biochemical oxygen demand, and temperature. The manual also includes chapters on heavy metals testing, land use practices, and computer networking. The current edition specifically features LaMotte water quality test kits.
Limnology: An Introduction to the Fresh Water Environment William H. Amos
A concise resource on the biological, chemical, and physical processes of ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers. Topics include stream dynamics, plant zonation, the succession of ponds, the energy cycle of ponds, etc. 40 pages.
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Limnology: An Introduction To The Fresh Water Environment
Provides a comprehensive description of twenty-five water quality test factors, including analytical procedures for their measurement and the interpretation of test results. Also includes illustrations and a valuable glossary. 72 pages.
Our Environment Battles Water Pollution Dr. Charles E. Renn
A lively text that follows the journey of a theoretical river from its origin as a mountain brook to its discharge into a marine estuary. Includes the chemical and biological changes that occur as the stream reacts to impurities from natural and industrial sources. 32 pages.
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Our Environment Battles Water Pollution
1592
Back to top A Study of Water Quality Dr. Charles E. Renn
An in-depth examination of the life-cycle of water, from its natural state to its treatment for domestic and industrial usage. Emphasis is provided on such water quality problems as scaling, corrosiveness, taste, and turbidity. 46 pages.
An introduction to soil formation, soil pH, mineral elements, plant nutrition, the life cycle of growing plants, and soil fertility management. 44 pages.
A manual for "growers" and soil investigators! Provides information on major and minor nutrients, trace elements, soil pH, organic matter, and soil texture. Also includes lime and fertilizer recommendations for a variety of crops and plants. 60 pages.
A Laboratory Manual for Marine Science Studies Staff, LaMotte Company
Provides information on sampling procedures and water quality analysis in salt water environments. Includes test procedures and description of reagents and labware. 32 pages.