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Title: Agriculture and Water Resources Information
Internet Resources
- The Penn State University sponsored STEWARD program monitoring module includes, water quality parameter measurements, sampling methods, analytical methods, example calculations, and descriptions about popular models for water quality estimations.
- The Center for Technology Transfer and Pollution Prevention at Purdue University offers a set of
teaching tools/self-paced instruction modules on
water quality and land treatment education.
- EPA office of water:Volunteer Estuary Monitoring
- The Arizona State University Water Quality Research Program offers a glossary of water related terms.
- The American Water Association offers an essay on managing water in public works.
- The USGS Hydrology Primer offers an introduction to hydrology.
- The North Carolina State University Water Quality Group offers theWATERSHEDSS (Water, Soil, and Hydro-Environmental Decision Support System .
This site includes a hypertext expert-systems user interface for watershed assessment and evaluation, an educational component, an annotated bibliography of NPS literature, an agricultural best management practice (BMP) database, a linked GIS/water quality model (AGNPS), and a pollutant budget spreadsheet.
- The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service offers a collection of publications.
- The Minnesota Extension Service offers information about water quality.
- The Iowa State University offers a Multi-state Extension Materials Database QUERRI.
- The Arizona State UniversityPartnership Handbook is a resource and guidebook for local groups addressing natural resource, land use, or environmental issues.
- Purdue University offers a water quality bibliography on conservation, erosion control, irrigation, wetlands, drinking water quality, nutrient management, and waste management.
- University of Texas An Overview of Global Positioning System (GPS)
- The University of Minnesota Extension Service offers manuare education and research .
- The Purdue University National Extension Water Quality Database contains more than 2,400 citations and 800 full-text documents of water quality and waste management publications produced by state cooperative extension services; publications cover conservation; drinking water quality; pest, waste and nutrient management; water wells and testing.
- The Penn State University
STEWARD, Support Technology for Environmental, Water, and Agricultural Resource Decisions, provides reference material on water contaminant transport, monitoring, testing, treatment, health effects and related issues.
- The National Agricultural Library offers 214 citations on
Swine Manure Management from the AGRICOLA database; January 1990 - September 1995.
- The National Agricultural Library offers 53 citations on Manure Storage from the AGRICOLA database; January 1992 to September 1995.
- The National Agricultural Library offers 78 citations on
Compost Nutrients from the AGRICOLA database; January 1992 - September 1995.
- The National Agricultural Library offers 42 citations on
Livestock Health and Water from the AGRICOLA database; January 1992 - September 1995.
- The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 166 citations on
Monitoring Water Quality for Agricultural Wastes and Agrichemicals from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1991 - June 1993.
- The National Agricultural Library offers Water Quality and Dairy Waste Management Publications from the National Dairy Database. This is an index and link to publications relating to the maintenance of high quality water and management of dairy cattle waste. The documents were prepared by land-grant universities and dairy industry organizations.
- Auburn University offers The Agricultural Waste Database which includes citations on agricultural waste management from books, journals, extension and university publications, serials, and periodicals
- The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 129 citations on Dairy Farm Manure Management from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1988 - November 1994.
- Southwest Riparian Expertise Directory for Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
- The Center for Aquatic Plants wetland and aquatic plants information and a slide show on the benefits of native aquatic plants; photographs, line drawings and descriptions.
- Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing
Evaluation of Artificial Wetlands for Filtering of Agricultural Waste Waters an annotated bibliography with subject index; revised June 1995.
- The Iowa State University
Hydric Soils of the United States; definition and classification criteria for hydric soils; national and state lists.
- The National Wetlands Inventory NWI provides information on accessing wetlands maps; contains other wetlands information.
- The National Agricultural Library
The Value of Wetlands is an annotated bibliography that focuses on literature dealing with the value of wetlands in North America from social and economic perspectives; January 1988 - April 1993.
- The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 603 citations on
Constructed Wetlandscovering the use of constructed wetlands for water quality improvement topics include acid mine drainage, domestic and industrial wastewater, agricultural wastes and runoff, urban runoff; produced December 1994; updated October 1995.
- The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 185 citations on
Riparian Zones and Filter Strips in Agricultural Operations (Part I) from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1985 - April 1993.
Part II contains 176 citations covering January 1988 - January 1995.
- New York Water Resources Institute, Cornell University Whole farm planning a multiagency effort to control nonpoint source pollution
- The North Carolina State University WATERSHEDSS a decision support system which begins with water quality standards for various types of water bodies and their uses. The user then identifies sources of NPS pollution and the program suggests BMP's indexed in the NRCS Handbook of Conservation Practices.
- The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 166 citations on
Evaluation of Agricultural Best Management Practices from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1983 - June 1993.
Part II contains one hundred and forty-one citations; 1990-September 1995.
- The National Agricultural Library
Alternative Farming Systems Information Center specializes in access to information about sustainable agriculture, new uses for traditional crops, crops grown as raw materials for industrial production, and the USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program.
This list was compiled for Minnesota River Basin Agricultural Resources and Research at the Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota . The inclusion or omission of a particular entry should not be considered as an endorsement or disapproval. If you have suggestions for improvement or URL's you would like to see in this list please send us an e-mail
Last Modified: April 30, 1996 - Ananda Mallawatantri