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Environmental News Sources

Des Moines Register Environmental News
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c5903220/index.html
Des Moines Register Hog lots Map
http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/hoglots/imap.html
IDNR EcoWire News
http://www.iowadnr.com/news/news.html
Iowa Radio Environment
http://www.radioiowa.com/site/index.cfm
US WaterNews
http://www.uswaternews.com/homepage.html
Environmental News Link
http://www.caprep.com/
WaterTech Online
http://www.waternet.com/
WaterWorld
http://ww.pennnet.com/home.cfm
E, S & T
http://pubs.acs.org/journals/esthag/index_magazine.html

News & Weather

KCCI-Channel 8 News
http://www.theiowachannel.com/
Channel 13 News
http://www.whotv.com/
WOI Channel 5 News
http://www.woitv.com/
Des Moines Register
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
Ames Tribune
http://www.amestrib.com/
Pella Chronicle
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=2517
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/
NPR
http://www.npr.org/
Reuters 
http://www.reuters.com/

Iowa State University

Iowa State University
http://www.iastate.edu/
Civil & Construction Engineering Department
http://www.cce.iastate.edu/
CCE Intranet
https://intranet.eng.iastate.edu/default.aspx
ISU Web Guide
http://www.iastate.edu/guide/homepage.shtml
Des Moines River Water Quality Network
http://www.cce.iastate.edu/research/lutz/dmrwqn/dmrwqn.html
Iowa Mesonet (climate)
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/
Iowa Soil and Land Use - Dept of Agrononmy
http://extension.agron.iastate.edu/soils/
Iowa State Water Resources Research Institute
http://www.water.iastate.edu/
Iowa Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/cfwru/home.html
Limnology Laboratory
http://limnology.eeob.iastate.edu/
Iowa Lakes Valuation Project
http://www.card.iastate.edu/lakes/
Agronomy Extension:  WQ Connection
http://extension.agron.iastate.edu/waterquality/
CARD (Center for Ag & Rural Develop)
http://www.card.iastate.edu/
ISU Extension Publications: Water Quality
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/pubs/wa.htm
EHS Hazardous Waste On-line Submission Form
http://www.ehs.iastate.edu/ep/wasterequest.htm
Transportation Services
http://www.transportation.iastate.edu/
Sponsored Programs Administration
http://ospa.iastate.edu/
ISU Surplus
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~centrals/isusurplus.htm
ISU Inventory Control
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~centrals/csinventory.htm
Facilities
http://www.fpm.iastate.edu/
Postal Services
http://www.fpm.iastate.edu/postal_parcel/

Corps of Engineers

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
http://www.usace.army.mil/
Rock Island District, Corps of Engineers
http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/
Saylorville Lake
http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/Saylorville/
Saylorville Lake Hydrographic Survey
http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/saylor/Hydrographic.htm
Lake Red Rock
http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/RedRock/
Osprey Cam at Red Rock
http://www.iowadnr.com/parks/special_projects/webcam.html
Coralville Lake
http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/Coralville/
ERDC Library
http://libweb.wes.army.mil/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/49/1?new_gateway_db=HYPERION
RiverGages.com
http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/WaterControl/new/layout.cfm

U.S. Geological Survey

USGS, Water Resources in Iowa
http://ia.water.usgs.gov/
USGS, DATA Retrieval
http://ia.water.usgs.gov/data.html
USGS, Iowa District Annual Reports, Water Resources in Iowa http://ia.water.usgs.gov/pubs/index.html
National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/
NAWQA Eastern Iowa Basins
http://wwwdiaiwc.cr.usgs.gov/nawqa/
NAWQA Pesticide Standards and Criteria
http://ca.water.usgs.gov/pnsp/source/
USGS, Realtime Data for Gage 05481300, Des Moines River near Stratford, IA
http://ia.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=05481300
USGS, Realtime Data for Gage 05481650, Des Moines River near Saylorville, IA
http://ia.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=05481650
USGS, Realtime Data for Gage 05484500, Raccoon River near Van Meter, IA
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ia/nwis/uv?site_no=05484500
USGS, Realtime Data for Gage 05485500, Des Moines River blw Raccoon Riv at Des Moines, IA
http://ia.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=05485500
USGS, Realtime Data for Gage 05487500, Des Moines River near Runnells, IA
http://ia.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=05487500
USGS, Realtime Data for Gage 05488500, Des Moines River near Tracy, IA
http://ia.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=05488500
Historic flow data
http://water.usgs.gov/ia/nwis/sw
National Map Viewer (gis)
http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/viewer.htm

NOAA

NOAA, Iowa Climate (current)
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/ia/climate.html
National Weather Service, Des Moines
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dmx/
Des Moines Iowa F-6 reports (and monthly/seasonal summaries)
http://www.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=dmx
National Climatic Data Center, Iowa Climate
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/IA.html
Harry Hillaker, State Climatologist, Monthly Summaries
http://www.agriculture.state.ia.us/climarchive.htm
NOAA Annual Reports Iowa (for monthly annual means at DM)
http://nndc.noaa.gov/?http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.publist?prodnum=C00096-PUB-S0001&subset=004
US Climate Normals
http://www.weather.gov/climate/local_data.php?wfo=dmx
Annual Climatological Summary
http://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/ancsum/ACS
Historical Climate Summary, Des Moines
http://mcc.sws.uiuc.edu/html/MWclimate_data_summeries.htm#
AHPS- Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ahps.cgi?dmx
Preliminary Local Climate Data (Form F6) for Des Moines, IA
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dmx/0climate/f6_dsm.html

Other Weather

Anything Weather (for DM barometric pressure)
http://www.anythingweather.com/current.asp?station=Kdsm

EPA

New Publications
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ncepihom/nsCatalog.nsf/newpubs
Surf Your Watershed: Iowa
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/state.cfm?statepostal=IA
Surf Your Watershed: Iowa, Middle Des Moines
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=07100004
Surf Your Watershed: Iowa, North Raccoon
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=07100006
Surf Your Watershed: Iowa, Lake Red Rock
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=07100008
Iowa Assessment Fact Sheet
http://www.epa.gov/owow/uwa/states/ia_icon.html
EPA TMDL 303(d) list for Iowa
http://oaspub.epa.gov/waters/state_rept.control?p_state=IA#TPOL
EPA Water Quality Monitoring
http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/index.html
EPA National Water Quality Inventory, Iowa
http://oaspub.epa.gov/waters/w305b_report.state?p_state=IA
EPA National Listing of Fish Consumption Advisories
http://www.epa.gov/OST/fishadvice/
National Fish Tissue Study
http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fishstudy/
Fish Advisory Newsletter
http://epa.gov/waterscience/fish/advisories/newsletter.htm
Modern STORET
http://www.epa.gov/storet/
Legacy STORET
http://www.epa.gov/storpubl/legacy/gateway.htm
EPA Region VII
http://www.epa.gov/rgytgrnj/
EPA Beach Watch
http://www.epa.gov/OST/beaches/
Beach Monitoring XML Schema
http://www.exchangenetwork.net/
Mississippi River Watershed
http://www.epa.gov/msbasin/
Global Warming: Iowa
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/us-iowa.html
Water Quality Criteria and Standards
http://www.epa.gov/ostwater/standards/
EPA Numeric Criteria
http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/
State Standards
http://www.epa.gov/ost/standards/wqslibrary/ia/ia.html
EPA Federal Register Documents
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/

Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR)
http://www.iowadnr.com/
IDNR Water Quality
http://www.iowadnr.com/water
TMDL and Water Quality Assessment Section (303d and 305b)
http://www.iowadnr.com/water/tmdlwqa/index.html
Iowa Water Quality Criteria (from IAC, 567, Chapter 61) http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/gnac/gnac2216/gnac2277/gna2278.pdf
Rule Reference Documents
http://www.iowadnr.com/water/standards/ruleref.html
Fish Consumption Advisories (Fisheries Bureau)
http://www.iowadnr.com/fish/news/consump.html
Reporting a Spill
http://www.iowadnr.com/spills/report.html
Water Quality at Iowa Beaches
http://wqm.igsb.uiowa.edu/activities/beach/beach.htm
Iowa Geological Survey
http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/
Iowa's Ambient Water Monitoring Program
http://wqm.igsb.uiowa.edu
Watershed Initiative (gis)
http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/nrgislibx/watershed/watersheds.htm
Fish Kills
http://wqm.igsb.uiowa.edu/wqa/fishkill.html
IOWATER Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring
http://www.iowater.net/
Fish Iowa 
http://www.iowadnr.com/fish/index.html
Professional Licenses
http://www.iowadnr.com/license/prof.html

Ia Dept of Ag & Land Stewardship

Soil Conservation Div
http://www.agriculture.state.ia.us/soilconservation.html

Des Moines 

Des Moines Water Works 
http://www.dmww.com/
DMWW Empact Project, source data
http://www.dmww.com/empact_p2.asp
Des Moines WWTP History
http://www.dmgov.org/departments/wrf/wrf_history.htm

University of Iowa

Hawkeye Area Water Quality Initiative
http://www.hawqi.engineering.uiowa.edu/
IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering
http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/index.html
Hygenic Laboratory
http://www.uhl.uiowa.edu/
Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination
http://www.cheec.uiowa.edu/

Iowa DOT

Iowa DOT weather/road information
http://www.state.ia.us/government/dot/
Road Construction Report
http://www.dot.state.ia.us/roadcons.htm

FDA

FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition: Pesticides
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/pestadd.html
FDA/CFSAN Action Levels in Food
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fdaact.html

USDA

Agriculture Chemical Useage Report
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/other/pcu-bb/
WQ Information Center
http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/
Iowa Geographic Map Server
http://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/index.html
Nutrient Management Std 590 (NRCS)
http://www.ia.nrcs.usda.gov/News/Brochures/590info.pdf
Tillage Survey (NRCS)
http://www.ia.nrcs.usda.gov/Technical/Tillage/tillage.htm
Iowa Conservation Partners (NRCS)
http://www.ia.nrcs.usda.gov/
Iowa WQ Project Directory (NRCS)
http://www.ia.nrcs.usda.gov/News/Brochures/iowawaterquality.pdf
Raccoon River Watershed Project
http://www.rrwp.org/
NRCS (with image gallery)
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/

US Fish & Wildlife Service

Neal Smith National Refuge
http://www.tallgrass.org/

National Institute of Health

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/home.htm

Professional Organizations

NALMS
http://www.nalms.org/
American Fisheries Society
http://www.fisheries.org/
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
http://aslo.org/
American Water Works Assn
http://www.awwa.org/
ASCE
http://www.asce.org/

Iowa Professional Organizations

Iowa Academy of Science
http://www.iren.net/ias/
ASCE, Iowa Section
http://sections.asce.org/iowa/index.html
Iowa Water Pollution Control Assn
http://www.iawpca.org/default.htm
Iowa Rural Water Assn
http://www.iowaruralwater.org/
Iowa Groundwater Assn
http://www.igwa.org/default.asp

Iowa Environmental Firms

Iowa Consulting Firms
http://www.environmentalnetwork.com/WIP/start1.htm
Environmental Yellow Pages
http://www.enviroyellowpages.com/iowa/iowa11.htm

Environmental Organizations

Iowa Environmental Council
http://www.earthweshare.org/
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
http://www.inhf.org/
Iowa Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org/ia/
Isaac Walton League (DM)
http://www.desmoinesikes.com/
Big Bluestem Audubon Society
http://cmpweb.ameslab.gov/shivvers1/bluestem.html
Iowa Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/iowa/
Iowa PIRG
http://www.iowapirg.org/
Iowa Soil & Water Cons. Soc.
http://www.iaswcs.org/
American Rivers
http://www.amrivers.org/

Library Resources

e library ISU
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/
Internet Public Library: Reference
http://www.ipl.org/ref/
Librarians Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org/

Journals

AFS Journals (Transactions, ect...)
http://www.fisheries.org/publications/journals/index.shtml#tafs
Lake and Reservoir Management
http://www.nalms.org/bkstore/lrm.htm
Canadian J. of Fisheries and Aq Sci
http://www.nrc.ca/cgi-bin/cisti/journals/rp/rp2_desc_e?cjfas
Aquatic Toxicology
http://www.elsevier.com/gej-ng/10/10/61/
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/
Limnology Journals
http://www.science.lander.edu/rsfox/journal.html
Stormwater
http://www.forester.net/sw.html

References / Tools

Dictionary/Thesarus
http://www.m-w.com/
Iowa Map Room
http://www.iowa-counties.com/maps/
Iowa Maps
http://www.mapathon.com/ia.html
Topozone for Coordinates
http://www.topozone.com
Common Weights and Measures
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/links/weights/index.html
Technical Writing: Style Guides
http://freelancewrite.miningco.com/msub10.htm
Reference Citation (Chicago Style)
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/user-ed/handouts/IB16.pdf
Iowa Administrative Code
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/IAC.html ; http://www.legis.state.ia.us/ACO/IAChtml/567.htm
Mileage Chart
http://www.ats.iastate.edu/vpbf/accounting/mileageguideiowa.pdf

Statistics

WebStat
http://www.une.edu.au/WebStat/others/statistics_tools.html
Interactive Stat
http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html

Additional General Links

Guide to Water Phenomena
http://www.umaine.edu/WaterResearch/FieldGuide/
Iowa Environmental Potpourri
http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/iowa_environment/
FedWorld Information Network
http://www.fedworld.gov/index.html
clay.netŪ Environmental Professional's Homepage
http://www.clay.net/ep.html
Hydrology Web
http://etd.pnl.gov:2080/hydroweb.html
Lake and Water Word Glossary
http://www.nalms.org/glossary/glossary.htm
Chemfinder
http://chemfinder.camsoft.com/
MSDS's on the Internet
http://www.ehs.iastate.edu/oh/msds.htm
InfoMine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/Main.html

Fishes of Iowa
http://www.iowadnr.com/fish/iafish/iafish.html
Aquatic Insect Interactive Verification Program
http://www.entomology.umn.edu/midge/VSMIVP.htm
Macroinvertebrate Key I
http://mason.gmu.edu/~avia/page1.htm
Marcoinvertebrate Key II
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~sos-iwla/Stream-Study/Key/MacroKeyIntro.HTML 
IOWATER Macroinvertebrate Key
http://wwwtest.igsb.uiowa.edu/Iowater/BenthicKey.htm
Phytoplankton Image Library
http://www.cedareden.com/phyto.html
Algae Pages
http://www.bio.mtu.edu/~jkoyadom/algae_webpage/HOME.htm
Iowa Herps
http://www.herpnet.net/Iowa-Herpetology/
Natureworks for Iowa
http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/iowa.htm
Dragonflies and Damselflies of Iowa
http://www.iowaodes.com/
Tree ID for Iowa
http://www.exnet.iastate.edu/pages/tree/

Equipment & Supplies

Wildco
http://www.wildco.com
Rickly Hydrological
http://www.rickly.com/
Forestry Suppliers
http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/
Ben Meadows
http://www.benmeadows.com
Lab Safety Supply
http://www.labsafety.com/
Thomas Register
http://www.thomasregister.com
Hach
http://www.hach.com
Fisher Scientific
http://www.fishersci.com
Ultra Scientific
http://www.ultrascientific.com
LaMotte
http://www.lamotte.com/
NCRS Sampling Equipment sources
http://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/water/
DMOZ Products
http://www.dmoz.com
EPA Scientific Supply links
http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/volunteer/stream/appendb.html
Lifesaving
http://lifesaving.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/index.html
PowerVerters
http://www.provantage.com/PR_50026.HTM?TRPI00R

Jobs

Environmental Jobs in Iowa
http://www.ejobs.org/states/ia.html
Iowa State University Job Search
https://www.iastatejobs.com/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1195152941642
Univeristy of Iowa Job Search
http://jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/index.php
IDNR Job Search
http://www.iowadnr.gov/employment/perm.html

Education

Iowa Environmental Education (k-12)
http://www.iowaEE.org/index.html
Compare Environmental Science Programs (Undergrad)
http://www.missouri.edu/~esiwww/sscomparisons.html

Miscellaneous

Adobe Create pdf files for eBooks
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrdis/pdfs/pdf4eBooks.pdf
Validator
http://validator.w3.org/
Lat/long converter
http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us/gis/latlon.html

 

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