Category: Posters

29 Aug, 2016

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...

News / Posters / Student Focus

14 Mar, 2016

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...

Posters / Student Focus

20 Aug, 2014

2014 Student Poster Winner – Steve Mattocks

M.S. Candidate Department of Environmental Conservation University of Massachusetts Amherst Determining the Ecological Consequences from Historical Damming of New England Watersheds – Anadromous river herring, collectively alewives and blueback herring, were historically abundant in most...

New York Times Water News

Would You Like My Car to Make You Some Water?
Engineers are finding ways to have cars do much more than take us from Point A to Point B — including producing and dispensing water.
Algae in Lake Erie: What Can Be Done?
A congresswoman and a neurologist write about the need to protect fresh water in the Great Lakes.
Finding Water in Puerto Rico: An Endless Game of Cat and Mouse
Three weeks after Hurricane Maria, much of Puerto Rico still lacks safe tap water, and bottling plants are crippled, leaving residents to scramble after scarce supplies from the mainland.

EPA Water News

EPA Hurricane Maria Update for Friday, October 20th
WASHINGTON (October 20, 2017)—U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Pete Lopez concluded his five-day trip to Puerto Rico and the U.S.
EPA awards nearly $900K in wetlands grants to help grow state and tribal wetland programs in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska
Seattle - EPA has awarded nearly $900,000 in grants to strengthen state, tribal and local government capacity in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska to protect and restore wetlands.
EPA awards Colorado $1.3M to improve and protect Arkansas River water quality
DENVER -- The U.S.

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Maintain an association of persons involved in the protection of watersheds, water quality, and aquatic habitat and in the abatement of water pollution and aquatic habitat and watershed deterioration; Encourage improved professional and technical standards in the investigation, abatement, and regulation of water pollution, aquatic habitat, and watershed problems; Focus attention on watershed, aquatic habitat, and water quality concerns by conducting symposia, workshops and projects, collecting and assembling information for publication, and distributing results to Society members and the public; and Promote development and use of standardized procedures and techniques for investigating and regulating water quality, aquatic habitat, and watershed problems.