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CALENDAR

Week	Slides	Excel	Unit Title
1			Water Analysis and Sampling
2			Statistics and Data Analysis
			Major Constituents
3			Suspended and Dissolved Solids
4			Dissolved Oxygen and Oxygen Demand
5			pH, Acidity and Alkalinity
6			Hardness
7			Conductivity
			Common Ions
8			UV-Vis Spectrometry
9			Ion Chromatography
10			Ion-Selective Electrodes
			Trace Pollutants
11			Organics
12			Metal Ions: Sampling and Preparation
13			Metal Ions: Pb via FAAS
14			Metal Ions: As via HGAAS
15			No Class

EQUIPMENT

Field Equipment

Maps
Extech Heavy Duty DO Meter
YSI Model 63 pH/Conductivity/Salinity and Temperature System
Accumet AR50 pH /mv / Conductivity / ISE Meter
Accumet AP63 ISE/pH Portable Meter
ISE's - Potassium, Calcium, Fluoride
Hach Digital Titrator (Alkalinity)
Barnant Portable Water Sampler
Hanna TDS Meter
Depth Integrating Sediment Sampler DH-48 link
Palintest Ferrometer 1000
DO meter
Palintest SA-5000 Scanning Analyzer Pb/Cu water, soil and air

Lab Equipment

Ca Ion Selective Electrode
Perkin Elmer MHS-15 Hydride Generator
Dionex ICS-1000
WTW OxiTOP BOD System
Fisher Isotemp* Undercounter Refrigerated Incubator for BOD - Cat. No. 97-990E
Bioscience Accu-TEST COD System - brochure
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MEDIA

Quicktime

HG-AAS
Anza Excel Practice File

REFERENCES

General

List of related text books
Page numbers of relevant sections above
Canning, K. and Kilbourne, A.L. (1998) Selecting Test Kits for Air, Water and Soil. Pollution Engineering, May, pp. 53.

Ion Selective Electrodes

Frant, M.S. and Ross, Jr., J.W. (1966) Electrode for Sensing Fluoride Ion Activity. Science, Vol. 154, pp. 1553-1555.
Frant, M.S. (1994) History of the Early Commercialization of Ion-Selective Electrodes. Analyst, Vol. 199, pp. 2293-2301.
Meyerhoff, M.E. and Opdycke, W.N. (1986) Ion Selective Electrodes. Advances in Clinical Chemistry, Vol. 25, pp. 1-47.

Arsenic

Farmer, J.G. and Johnson, L.R. (1985) The arsenic content of bottled mineral waters. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 124-126.
Lovell, M.A. and Farmer, J.G. (1983) The Determination of Arsenic Species in Water and Human Urine by Ion-Exchange Chromatography - Hydride Generation Atomic Absorption Spectrometry. Anal. Proc., Vol. 20 (abstract), pp. 274.

Water Quality Reports

Moon Twp Municipal Authority 2005

Water Quality Groups

List of PA Citizen's Volunteer Monitoring Groups

LINKS

Some useful sites:

Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater - http://www.standardmethods.org
Article on history of water quality - http://www.ioe.ucla.edu/reportCard/report00/html/drinkingquality.html
Kent Simmons' Aquatic Ecology Help Pages (Winkler Method) - http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~simmons/ysesp/contents.htm
PA Citizen's Volunteer Monitoring Program - http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/watermgt/wc/subjects/cvmp/default.htm
ALLARM at Dickinson College - http://www.dickinson.edu/allarm/index.htm
Water Quality Tests - http://kywater.org/watch/cumberland/ParamTSS.htm
pH-Meter Info - http://www.ph-meter.info
Rite-in-the-Rain - http://www.riteintherain.com http://www.mindbird.com/rite.htm
Ion Selective Electrodes - http://www.chemistry.nmsu.edu/Instrumentation/IS_Electrod.html

EPA

EPA Monitoring and Assessing Water Quality - http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring
EPA Volunteer Methods Manual - http://www.epa.gov/volunteer/stream/index.html
EPA PA Volunteer Directory - http://yosemite.epa.gov/water/volmon.nsf/VST!OpenView&Start=30&Count=30&Expand=39#39
EPA Volunteer Newsletter - http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/volunteer/issues.htm

Acid Rain

PA DEP Monitoring Pollutants in Rain - http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/aq/acidrain/acidrain.htm
ALLARM Alliance for Aquatic resource Monitoring - http://www.dickinson.edu/allarm/

Equipment Suppliers:

Palintest - http://www.palintest.com
NextSens USB WQSensors - http://www.nexsens.com

GC:

Instrumental Chemistry - http://www.instrumentalchemistry.com/index.htm

Watershed Groups: