The Question
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:44:13 -0500
From: Kris Stepenuck <kris.stepenuck@ces.uwex.edu>
Subject: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought
Hi everyone-
Do you know of nitrogen-focused fact sheets that are available
online? We've been approached by a volunteer monitoring coordinator
looking for information about nitrogen (as related to water quality, but
also in general) and would like to add listing of these publications to a
section of our website that lists volunteer-monitoring related publications (http://www.usawaterquality.org/volunteer/GuideForGrowing/Publications.html).
Any suggestions of nitrogen-related informational fact sheets would be
appreciated!
Also, if anyone else has ideas for publications they'd like to have listed
in clearinghouse format (like we plan to do with the nitrogen ones), please
let me know what topics you're interested in having available at the website.
Cheers,
Kris Stepenuck, on behalf of the Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring
National Facilitation Project
http://www.usawaterquality.org/volunteer
Wisconsin Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program Coordinator
445 Henry Mall, Rm 202
Madison, WI 53706-1577
Phone: 608-265-3887
Fax: 608-262-2031
Responses
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:55:42 -0700
From: "Snouwaert, Elaine (ECY)" <ESNO461@ecy.wa.gov>
The Washington Department of Ecology has this general focus sheet on
nutrients available:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/0210004.html
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:47:20 -0700
From: Erick Burres <eburres@waterboards.ca.gov>
Kris,
Fact sheets can be found at http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/nps/cwtguidance.html#30
3.3. Nutrients
3.3.1. Ammonia
3.3.1.0. Ammonia Fact Sheet [English] [Spanish]
3.3.1.2. Ammonia Salicylate Kits (SOP)
3.3.2. Oxidized Nitrogen - Nitrate (NO3) and Nitrite (NO2)
3.3.2.1. Measuring Nitrate and Nitrite (SOP)
Sincerely,
Erick Burres
Citizen Monitoring Coordinator
SWRCB- Clean Water Team
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We monitor nitrogen...
and scroll down to our water quality publications...
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:05:44 -0700
From: Sandy Lyon <sandy@ubwc.org>
Subject: RE: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought
Hello Kris,
I have been doing some nitrate assays in our water quality monitoring
program in the Umpqua Basin in Oregon. I have been very happy with an
enzymatic assay produced by the Nitrate Elimination Co., Inc. (NECi) which
produces an assay with no toxic components; it can just be flushed when you
are done. Their website (http://www.nitrate.com/)has information about the
assay as well as a section at the bottom of their homepage called "Useful
Information". This provides links that may be of interest.
Sandy Lyon
Monitoring Coordinator
Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers
1758 N.E. Airport Road
Roseburg, OR 97470
(541) 673-5756
I have two that may be of interest--and not same old thing...
Note link to the PDF print versions.
Gail Andrews
Oregon State University
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:08:53 -0500
From: "Broz, Robert R." <BrozR@missouri.edu>
Subject: RE: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought
Kris,
Several years back we produced a series of Water Quality guides and some
of the first were on nitrogen. They can be found at the University of
Missouri website: http://extension.missouri.edu and go to the google
search of the site. The guides are
WQ252 Nitrogen Cycle
WQ253 Nitrogen's Most Common Forms
WQ254 Nitrifcation
WQ255 Denitrification
WQ256 How Nitrogen Enters Groundwater
WQ257 Ammonia Volatilization
WQ258 Nitrate Poisoning
WQ259 Nitrogen in the Plant
WQ260 Mineralization - Immobilization
WQ261 Nitrogen Fixation
There are a couple more but these will give a pretty good overview of
nitrogen basics, and then how it enters the environment. I don't have
anything in this series that focuses on surface water.
Good luck and I hope this helps.
Bob
Bob Broz
University of Missouri
205 Agricultural Engineering
Columbia, MO 65211
(573) 882-0085
brozr@missouri.edu
Kris,
This is such helpful information. The only resources that I use regularly for comparison and clarification are:
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste Water ( which has nitrogen information) and LaMotte information on Colorimeter and Spectrophotometer testing for various forms of nitrogen.
I can give you better reference information on these if that would be helpful.
(Go to http://www. lamotte.com; click onto Kit Instructions; Move down to the manuals for 1200 Colorimeter and Smart Spectrospectrophotometer. Click on one of these and then click on to Individual Test Instructions. Go to the nitrogens including ammonia , nitrite, etc).
Thanks you for sending your bibliography. I know I will use it.
Ailene
Ailene K. Rogers
Marine Program Educator for Water Logging
Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County
180 Little Neck Road
Centerport, NY 11721
Tel: 631-854-5544 x22
Fax: 631-854-5543
email: ar295@cornell.edu
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:37:54 -0500
From: Kate Reilly <klreilly@wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought
Kris,
The Environmental Literacy Cycle has some good information on biochemical cycles http://www.enviroliteracy.org/subcategory.php/198.html, including nitrogen http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/479.html . At the end of the general info on the nitrogen cycle you'll see resources cited for a number of nitrogen-related resources/materials.
Kate
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:38:14 -0400
From: Deb Grantham <dgg3@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought
Kris,
Great information on this Cornell Web site: http://nmsp.css.cornell.edu/
Deb
Kris,
Our Heartland Regional Water Coordination Initiative has just released a publication on agricultural nitrogen management that belongs in your links:
Agricultural Nitrogen Management for Water Quality Protection in the Midwest.
Wortmann, C., alKaisi, M., Helmers, M., Sawyer, J., Devlin, D., Barden, C., Scharf, P., Fergusen, R., Kranz, W., Shapiro, C., Spalding, R., Tarkalson, D., Holtz, J., Francis, D. 2006.
Heartland Water Quality Bulletin, University of Nebraska Press, RP189.
The pdf document with bookmarks can be obtained online at:
http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/sendIt/rp189.pdf
A pdf image of the publication only is also available at:
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/waterquality/nitrogen%20pub.pdf
I am copying this message to members of the Heartland Nutrient and Pesticide Management issue team, as they may have other recommendation for pubs from their own universities.
susanb
Hi,
Here are two excellent links on nitrogen and water quality from the
Ecological Society of America. The first page of each document appears
blank, so scroll down before you give up:
Art
Arthur J. Gold Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. Natural Resource Sciences
110 Coastal Institute
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
phone: 401-874-2903
Fax: 401-874-4561
agold@uri.edu
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