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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Read the WQS contribution in this special issue on Climate Change: Fisheries Magazine July 2016
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...
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, 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...
Congratulations to Andrew Todd on being elected as the new President Elect of the Water Quality Section. Professionally, Andrew works as a research biologist, conducting research on the impacts of diverse stressors (e.g. acid-rock drainage,...
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