Agriculture and Water Resources Information

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Internet Resources

Educational Resources Related to Water Quality

• 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)

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Bibliography's of Non Point Source Related Issues

• The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 137 citations on Risk Assessment and Communication Related to Water Resources from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1985 - December 1993.

• The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 127 citations on Regulating Water Quality: Policy, Standards and Laws from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1993 - January 1995.

• The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 133 citations on Bioassessment of Water Resources(I) from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1985 - December 1993.

• The National Agricultural Library offers fifty-seven citations on Bioassessment of Water Resources (II)) from the AGRICOLA database; covers 1990-September 1995.

• The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 149 citations on Researching Water Qualityfrom the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1989 - June 1993.

• The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 255 citations on Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems and Computer-Assisted Instruction for Water Resources Management from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1985 - June 1993.

• The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 106 citations on Water Quality and Forestry from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1990 - June 1993; Part IIoffers eighty-one citations from the AGRICOLA database; covering January 1992 - September, 1995.

• The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 196 citations on Nonpoint-Source Pollution Issues from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1990 - November 1994.

• The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 224 citations on Agricultural Perspectives on Water Resources Management in the Americas from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1985 - July 1993. Part II covering seventy-three citations from the AGRICOLA database; 1990-September 1995.

• The National Agricultural Library offers a bibliography of 192 citations on Attitudes Toward Water Resources (I)from the AGRICOLA database; covers January 1988 - December 1993; and Attitudes Towards Water Resources (II) covering seventy-seven citations from the AGRICOLA database; May 1990 - September 1995.

• The USDA offers publications between 1930 and 1995 on wind erosion research.

• Water Management Research Laboratory Drip Irrigation Bibliography

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Manure and Waste Management

• 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.

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Wetlands, Riparian Buffers, and Filter Strips

• 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.

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Best Management Practices and Farm Management

• 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.

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Agricultural Non Point Source Related Projects

• Saint Albans Bay, Vermont .

• Red River Basin Information Network.

• Rock Creek, Idaho Rural Clean Water Program .

• Water Resources in the Upper Verde River Yavapai and Coconino Counties, Arizona.

• Bibliographic summaries of federal "319" projects and National Rural Clean Water Program (RCWP).

• Nova Scotia farm well water qualilty assurance study to evaluate artificial wetlands.

• East River Watershed water quality demonstration project.

• Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment GLOBE is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment.

• Farm*A*Syst or Homes*A*Syst a successful volunteer program involving government and industry.

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For the Professional

• International Bibliography on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

• USGS stream flow data retrieval

• The USGS selected water resources bibliographic database for USGS standard and GSA Bulletin, Ground Water Journal, Water Resources Research Journal and Water Resources Bulletin.

• Instrumentation to measure wind erosion .

• EPA economy and environment reports.

• The Water Web -technologies related to water.

• The National Agricultural Library Water Quality Information Center. The WWW and gopher sites contain water quality related bibliographies, announcements of upcoming meetings and teleconferences, and a listing of Internet discussion groups related to water quality.

• Purdue Cooperative Extension Gopher server U.S. Cooperative Extension publications related to water quality.

• Clean air act and some other legislative documents .

• Farm Bill 1995.

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State Agencies

• The Minnesota Extension Service .

• The Minnesota Climate Working Group.

• Minnesota USGS programs, data and factsheets.

• Minnesota Natural Resources Conservation Service.

• Minnesota Natural Resources Inventory ( NRI).

• Land Management Information Center (LIMIC) state digital data clearing house and geographic information system services and support.

• Minnesota Legislature.

• Minnesota Government Information and Services.

• Internet Connections at the Bend of Minnesota River.

• Minnesota WWW Servers.

• Minnesota STATSGO meta data.

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Other Agencies

• USGS sponsored National Institutes of Water Resources Research Institutes .

• USDA Economic Research Service (ERS).

• USGS National Water Data Exchange (NAWDEX).

• National Weather Service (NWS).

• United States Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (WES).

• United States Bureau of Land Management.

• United States Bureau of Reclamation .

• United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

• United States Fish & Wildlife Service .

• United States Geological Survey (USGS).

• United States Geological Survey Water Resources Division .

• USGS Node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (NSDI) .

• U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water
• National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory WEPP and CPIDS models.

• Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) .

• Dept. of Interior Environmental Management Technical Center: National Biological Service

• Consortium for International Earth Science Network CIESIN Fresh Water Resources.

• Cooperative Extension's National Initiative .

• Universities Water Information Network (UWIN)a directory of water experts, job announcements, access to Research Abstracts Database, a bibliographic database from the U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources Scientific Information Center, which contains 265,000 citations and abstracts from the scientific literature of water resources (1967-October 1993).

• International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems INTERPAKS

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• Not Just Cows Guide to Internet/Bitnet Resources in Agriculture and Related Sciences.

• Association of Research Libraries

• International Federation of Library Associations

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• Library Catalogs with Web Interfaces

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• Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite

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• Library of Congress.

• Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials.

• National Library of Canada.

• National Library of Education.

• National Media Laboratory.

• Research Libraries Group.

• Virginia Tech Library System.

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