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

        [   ] = wish list

MEDIA

Quicktime

• HG-AAS
• Anza Excel Practice File

REFERENCES

General

• List of related text books
• Page numbers of relevant sections above
• Canning and Kilbourne, 1998

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 and Johnson 1985
• Lovell and Farmer, 1983

Water Quality Reports

• MTMA 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: