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Lake
Links
Minnesota
Shoreland Management Resource Guide
Lake Access
SEEK
- Sharing Environmental Education Knowledge - Minnesota's environmental
education information and service center.
Stream
Links
Duluth
Streams (another off shoot of WOW, with real-time stream data
and lots of information on urban streams and stormwater).
Minnesota Rivers Primer
Stream Biology and
Ecology (Cristi Cave,
B.S., Fisheries, 1998, School of Fisheries,
University of Washington).
Glossaries
North
American Lake Management Society
Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources
Lenntech Water
Glossary (a water treatment and air puification company
University
of Kansas Collaborative Research Center
Minnesota
Sea Grant's Glossary
of the Great Lakes
U.S.
EPA Terms of the Environment (explains regulatory terms as
well as environmental quality terms)
US
Geological Survey - Water Science for Schools
Nevada
Division of Water Planning (a VERY detailed water dictionary)
Related
Educational Resources for Water
Minnesota
Science (a non-profit organization providing a one-stop connection
to the best science & technology sites on the internet)
Water
Science for Schools (USGS, good glossary, some pictures of folks
sampling etc)
Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources
Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency
Minnesota
Department of Natural Resources (check out the lakefinder)
National Water and
Climate Center (USDA NRCS Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring
guidance)
Hach Company's H20U
(a water quality resource for teachers and students)
Healthy Water, Healthy People
(a nonprofit, Montana State University-based water quality education
program)
WaterWebster (source
of information, news, links and services on the Web for the Water
and Waste Water industry)
Aquatic
Organisms
Algae
Cyanosite
(lots of images, links to BG research)
Bowling
Green State University (Center for Algal Microscopy and Image
Digitization, all diatoms FW and marine)
Cedar
Eden Environmental, LLC (Phytoplankton Images Library, pretty
good, shows some BG blooms)
Susquehanna
University Algal Image Archive (fairly comprehensive)
Department
of Marine Botany, Goteborg University (Checklist of marine
phytoplankton in the Skagerrak-Kattegat, some good images and
has a *good outline of taxonomy)
Aquatic
macrophytes
USGS
Midwestern Wetland Flora (photos and descriptions of wetland
plants, useful for wetland delineation but excludes most true
aquatics because they’re obviously wetland species)
University
of Fl Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants (LOTS of images,
mostly from Florida however, good links)
Washington
Department of Ecology (Be careful with this page, it doesn't
let you go back!)
Cedar Eden Environmental, LLC
Zooplankton
Cedar
Eden Environmental, LLC(in addition to algal images has quite
a few zooplankters)
The Plankton Net
(some freshwater but mostly marine zoop images)
The
Smallest Page on the Web
(some good images of algae, protozoans, and zooplankton)
Jorge Ciros,
University of Valencia, Spain (a very nice zooplankton site
with many good links as well).
Benthos
(benthic invertebrates)
The
Stream Study from the University of Virginia has an excellent,
easy to follow key to benthic invertebrates.
The North American Benthological Society ( no on-line images
but has slides you can purchase)
Duluth
Streams
Fish
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (some pictures with
helpful fish ID tips)
Duluth
Streams
(fish found in NE Minnesota streams)
Fishes
of Wisconsin (an excellent taxonomic key with photos)
Microbes
The
Microbe Zoo (check out Water World)
The
Smallest Page on the Web
(some good images of algae, protozoans, and zooplankton)
Limnological
Concepts
Hydrologic
cycle
Eutrophication
Lenntech
Matter Cycles and Pollution
Acid
deposition ("rain")
USEPA
(A student’s first source book on Acid Rain)
USEPA
Acid Rain Program
Related
Curricula and Lab Experiments
Lenntech
Periodic Table (a great resource showing properties of each
element in the periodic table).
Water
Resources Programs
Weather
& Climate- see Data Page
Lake,
Stream & Wetland Sampling Methods
USEPA
Office of Water (EPA Volunteer Monitoring Handbook)
Aquatic
Research Instruments (good diagrams and photos of sampling
equipment some with explanations on how the gear works)
Wildlife
Supply Company ( photos of sampling equipment)
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