Education is one of the primary purposes of Water on the Web. Within this understanding section, you can learn about a number of water related topics including: limnology, lake ecology, geographic information systems (GIS), and the Minnesota lakes which host Remote Underwater Sampling Stations (RUSS). To facilitate your understanding, throughout the site, we have linked terms to "pop-up" definitions. A full listing of these terms can be found in our glossary.

	The RUSS unit section explains where and how our data are collected and discusses the types of information available.
	The Lakes section contains information about the lake management, location, and size of the lakes involved. Lake characteristics are in the lake summary tables. Photos of each lake can be found in Notes.
	The Lake Ecology primer explains the connections among the physical, chemical and biological components of water.
	GIS houses the tools you need to view interactive maps of the WOW lakes and their landuse.
	Glossary of water related terms. (Warning: large file)
	Units - how big is a ppm really?
	Conversions for area, length, volume, & weight