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...
Water Quality Section of AFS
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...
Andrew Todd is new President Elect
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,...
Fisheries Magazine – July 2015
Highlights of Fisheries Magazine – July 2015 In this Issue: • Policy Column Silt Happens…Literally • Guest Column Point-Counterpoint: Be Flexible in the Number of Talks per Speaker at Meetings! • AFS News The...
Fisheries Magazine – June 2015
Highlights of Fisheries Magazine – June 2015 In this Issue: • Policy Column Nature-Based Remedies to Societal Woes • AFS News Improving Communication/Cooperation among Aquatic Professional Societies • Interviews Q&A: Interview with Jay Hemdal,...
