aquatic survey News
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EPA Announces Awards to College Students in National Water Quality Challenge
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced seven undergraduate and graduate student winners for phase 1 of the National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS) Campus Challenge, recognizing exemplary research in the area of water quality and ecosystems. Announced in February, the NARS Campus Challenge encourages students to develop proposals for research projects that find innovative ...
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UGA Student wins National Water Quality Challenge Award
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that James Wood, a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Georgia located in Athens, Ga., was one of seven undergraduate and graduate student winners for Phase 1 of the National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS) Campus Challenge. The award was based on Wood’s proposal to assess major trends in river plants and measure the ...
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EnviroScience, Inc. Awarded Five-Year $37.3 Million EPA Contract for National Aquatic Resource Surveys
EnviroScience, Inc. has been selected as a prime contractor for a five-year $37.3 million contract with the Environmental Protection Agency's National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS) program. "The expertise of our biologists, lab specialists and fishery scientists makes us a natural fit for the EPA's requirements of gauging the health of the nation's water," said Martin A. Hilovsky, President ...
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Whitson Named Senior Associate
Cyrille R. Whitson, CWD, PWS, was recently named a senior associate at Gannett Fleming, an international planning, design, and construction management firm. Whitson is a senior environmental scientist and project manager in the firm’s corporate headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa. With more than 20 years of environmental experience, Whitson manages the Natural Resources Group within Gannett ...
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EPA Releases Scientific Report Showing U.S. Coastal Waters a Mix of Good and Fair Health
Biological Quality is rated good in 56% of coastal and Great Lakes nearshore waters. Healthy communities of bottom-dwelling macroinvertebrates (such as worms and clams), which are indicators of biological quality, are supported in these waters. Water Quality is rated fair in 48% of coastal and Great Lakes waters and good in 36% when measuring phosphorus, nitrogen, water clarity, chlorophyll a, ...
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Aquatic Informatics Inc.: Water Survey Canada Full Roll Out
Aquatic Informatics Inc., a global leader in providing innovative software solutions for hydrologic data management and analysis, announced today the successful completion of the national deployment of the AQUARIUS system across all of the Water Survey of Canada's 28 offices. The real-time operations for the organization's entire national water monitoring network will now benefit from the ...
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Aquatic Informatics and Greenspan awarded Water Survey of Canada Hydrometric Workstation System contract
Aquatic Informatics and Greenspan have been awarded a contract to supply Water Survey of Canada, the federal water monitoring branch of Environment Canada, with a nation-wide Hydrometric Workstation System. Water Survey of Canada’s National Hydrometric Program provides for the collection, interpretation, and dissemination of surface water quantity data and information - information that is vital ...
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North Idaho’s Yellowdog creek nursed back to health by local, state and federal partnership
Northern Idaho’s Yellowdog Creek, impaired for decades by eroding forest road sediment, is coming back to life thanks to the work of local partnership between the U.S. Forest Service, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (Idaho DEQ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to Mary Farnsworth, Idaho Panhandle National Forests Supervisor, several USFS-led ...
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