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...

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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

Let the Stream Run Through It
It’s taken two decades to clean up most of Silver Bow Creek, polluted from a century of mining. Now some Butte residents wants the last two miles restored, to babble on through the city.
The Refreshing Appeal of Water-Based Perfumes
This ultra-niche category of natural fragrances attracts scent purists in search of the real thing — and nothing else.
The Man Who (Almost) Wiped Out the Guinea Worms
Dr. Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben has saved tens of millions of people from painful parasitic infections.

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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.