OWML: Links

OTHER SITES

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 Beach-Related

• Lake Superior Duluth - streams.org - (verified 4/24/07)
• Minnesota Lake Superior - Beach Monitoring Program - (verified 4/24/07)

 

 

USGS microbial research outside of Ohio

• Georgia - BacteriAlert Program, Chattahoochee River – (verified 2/16/07)
• Michigan – Biogeochemical indicators, Grant Traverse Bay Watershed – (verified 2/16/07)
• Virginia, application of MST to bacteria TMDLs - (verified 2/16/07)
• California - Ground-Water Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) project – (verified 2/16/07) ; Sources for Microbial Contamination – (verified 2/16/07)
• Kansas – Estimating E. coli loads by use of relations with turbidity – (verified 2/16/07) ; Cyanobacterial Blooms – (verified 2/16/07)
• NRP – Interaction of bacteria with environmental contaminants – (verified 2/16/07)
• Office of Water Quality Technical Assistance for TMDLs - (verified 2/16/07)
• NWHC - Invasive pathogens and emerging diseases of wildlife – (verified 2/16/07)
• Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies – Coral microbial ecology – (verified 2/16/07) ; Coral mortality and African dust – (verified 2/16/07)

 

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

• Microbiology - (verified 2/15/07)
• Beach Action plan –  (verified 2/20/07)
• Water quality criteria - (verified 2/15/07)
• List of drinking water contaminants & MCLs - (verified 2/15/07)
• Ground Water Rule - (verified 2/20/07)
• Drinking Water Rule - (verified 2/20/07)
• NOAA Oceans and Human Health Initiative - (verified 2/20/07)
• CDC Morbid and Mortality Weekly Report - (verified 2/20/07)
• CDC FoodBorne Pathogens Fact Sheets - (verified 2/20/07)

 

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• Water Environment Research Federation (WERF) – (verified 2/20/07)
• Water Environment Federation (WEF) - (verified 2/20/07)
• American Public Health Association (APHA) - (verified 2/16/07)
• American Society for Microbiology (ASM) – (verified 2/16/07)
• American Water Works Association (AWWA) - (verified 2/16/07)
• Awwa Research Foundation - (verified 2/20/07)
• National Ground Water Association – (verified 2/20/07)
• Great Lakes Beach Association - (verified 2/20/07)

 

LEARNING RESOURCES AND OTHER INFORMATION:

• On-line protocols - (verified 2/16/07)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - (verified 2/16/07)
• The Microbiology Information Portal - (verified 2/16/07)
• Microbe Zoo - (verified 2/16/07)
• Environmental Pathogens Information Network – (verified 2/20/07)
• Southern California Coastal Waters Research Project (SCCWRP) - (verified 2/20/07)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - (verified 2/20/07)
• Great Lakes Wikipedia - (verified 2/20/07)