Water Quality Section of AFS
National Water Monitoring News
To our Water Monitoring Colleagues around the Nation: As Co-Chairs of the National Water Quality Monitoring Council (or “Council”), we are pleased to release the seventeenth edition of our online newsletter National Water Monitoring...
AQUATIC SCIENTISTS PUSH BACK AGAINST NARROW WOTUS RULE
American Fisheries Society • Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography • Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation • Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society • International Association for Great Lakes Research • North American Lake...
Atlantic City Annual Meeting Review
The WQ section supported two symposia held at the 2018 AFS meeting in Atlantic City, NJ. Andrew Todd and Yetta Jager organized the symposium ‘Bad Acid: Past and future risk of acidification to aquatic...
3D ocean map tracks ecosystems in unprecedented detail
Tool to divide water masses into precise categories can help in conservation planning. Oceanographers are carving up the world’s seas like the last of the holiday turkey. A new 3D map sorts global water...
Melvin Samson: 2016 Student Poster Winner
Melvin Samson of State University of NY College of Environmental Science and Forestry has won our annual poster award. His poster is entitled: Tracking Hypoxia Exposure in Yellow Perch with Otolith Chemistry: Spatial Variation in...
A sediment-specific family-level biomonitoring tool to identify the impacts of fine sediment in temperate rivers and streams
The technique uses macroinvertebrates, and will be of interest to those familiar with, or using, the ICI in biomonitoring. Many state water quality agencies collect macroinvertebrate data as part of their monitoring, and use...
Fisheries Magazine – July 2016
Read the WQS contribution in this special issue on Climate Change: Fisheries Magazine July 2016
Coho salmon mortality in Western US watersheds
Bioinfiltration prevents lethal stormwater impacts. Adult coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch return each autumn to freshwater spawning habitats throughout western North America. The migration coincides with increasing seasonal rainfall, which in turn increases storm water...
International Aquatic Life Use Guidelines
This short article provides a quick overview of the status of aquatic life use guidelines internationally. As with water quality criteria, guidelines are varied and limited internationally. We provide a few examples that we...
Mason King – 2015 Winner of WQS Poster contest
Mason King, graduate research assistant at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, has won the Water Quality Section award for best student poster at the AFS annual meeting in Portland Oregon. His poster was...
