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

Flint’s Water Crisis Started 5 Years Ago. It’s Not Over.
Pipes are now being replaced and officials say the water is safe, but residents still worry, drink bottled water and doubt their elected leaders.
‘When the Glaciers Disappear, Those Species Will Go Extinct’
America’s glaciers are losing ice as the world warms. That’s disrupting habitats for fish, insects and even bacteria.
Nostalgia in the Era of Climate Change
Lynn Nottage’s original play “Submerged,” inspired by artwork by Lorna Simpson, written for T’s Culture issue.

EPA Water News

Trump Administration Officials Meet to Accelerate Progress on Reducing Excess Nutrients in the Nation’s Waters
BATON ROUGE – Senior Trump Administration officials hosted a roundtable in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, focused on identifying opportunities to reduce nutrient losses across the country.
EPA Joins Pennsylvania Partners To Support Sustainable Farming To Benefit Local Streams, Chesapeake Bay
PHILADELPHIA (May 16, 2019) - Today, the U.S.
EPA Actions Protect and Restore the Delaware River Basin
PHILADELPHIA (May 16, 2019) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency works to help protect and improve environmental conditions throughout the Delaware River Basin. Today, the Agency is announcing its award of a $602,000 grant to the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC).

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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.