Water Quality Section of AFS

Member Spotlight

August 20, 2022 —Gregg joined AFS in 1987 and became a life member in 1992, when he recruited 22 fisheries students to AFS!  He joined the Water Quality section in 2003 and served as...

Poster Award – 2020

Congratulations to Olivia Balkcum, student at Clemson U. for winning our 2020 student poster award for her poster entitled ‘How Do Warm Winters Affect Energy Allocation Trade-offs in Cool-Water Fish?‘ with coauthors William Sims,...

Covid 19 and water quality

COVID-19: Improved water quality expected In Wake of Global Shutdowns, Researchers Expect Water Quality to Improve    

ORNL’s Jager named AAAS Fellow

November 26, 2019Henriette Jager, senior research scientist in the Environmental Sciences Division at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...

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...

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...