Developing Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Mercury: A Probabalistic Site-Specific Approach
This project examined the development of ambient water quality criteria (AWQC) for the protection of wildlife for mercury. Mercury is considered a serious risk to wildlife in many areas. As a...
Evaluation of the Doodlebug: A Biochip for Detecting Waterborne Pathogens
Doodlebug is a new biochip technology that uses surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) microscopy for label and reagent free transduction. The biochip itself comprises pixels of capture...
Physical Effects of Wet Weather Flows on Aquatic Habitats: Present Knowledge and Research Needs
This study explores the current state of knowledge with respect to the effects of wet weather flows from urban areas on the physical character of aquatic habitat. It identifies knowledge gaps with...
Development of a Water Quality Model to Support Newport Bay, California TMDL
Newport Bay (Orange County, California) is listed by the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) as a water quality limited receiving water body because of sporadic exceedances of...
River Water Quality Model No.1
This Scientific and Technical Report (STR) presents the findings of the IWA Task Group on River Water Quality Modelling (RWQM) in a critical evaluation of the current state of the practice in...