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LIMNOLOGY and WATER RESOURCES

[ Limnology - General ]
[ Freshwater: Lakes/Seas ]
[ Saline Lakes/Seas ]
[ The Great Lakes ]
[ Water Resources/Quality Issues ]

Limnology - General :

Note: See also Limnology & Environment--East African Rift System

  • Aquanet - Aquatic Network -- Information Service for the Aquatic World
  • AquaNIC - Aquaculture Network Information Center - Home Page
  • Aquatic Ecology - homepage
  • CENTER FOR INLAND WATERS - a resource for Students, Teachers, Researchers, Decisionmakers, and the General Public - San Diego State University
  • East African Rift System - links
  • Great Salt Lake Ecosystem - Virtual Fieldtrip (Robert Ford)
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  • Lake and Catchment Area Conservation database
  • Limnology Links - Univ of Minnesota - LRC
  • Living Lakes International - home
  • LRC - Limnological Research Center - home
  • Nitrate-Nitrogen Water Quality Information
  • Plankton Net (the) - Plankton Ecology, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography Homepage
  • USGS - Ground Water Atlas of the US - California Nevada
     
  • Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford) - Great Salt Lake Ecoregion Virtual Tour
  • Water Resources / Programs - USGS National and International Programs
  • Water Resources/Water Quality links - below
  • WWW Library - Hydrosphere

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  • Freshwater Lakes/Seas:

        See also: The Great Lakes
     
  • East African Rift System - links
  • Fragile East African Lakes - PLEA article - Program for East African Lakes
  • Inland Delta - Niger River (Lake Fabuibine) - swamps/lakes - JSC.
  • Inland Seas Education Association - Schoolship / Great Lakes
  • Lake Baikal - virtual trip/resources/issues
  • Lake Baikal - Touchstone for Global Change and Rift Studies - USGS.
  • Lake Baikal, satellite image - and another one - JSC.
  • Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgystan - brackish lake and agriculture in Tien Shan - Sept 1992 and April 1994 - JSC.
  • Lake Malawi (Nyasa) - JSC.
  • Lake Tana, Ethiopia - source of Blue Nile - JSC.
  • Lake Tanganyika, Zaire - June 1985 - JSC.
  • Lake Tanganyika Biodiversity Project - homepage.
  • Lake Tanganyika - ENCARTA - Travel guide page
  • Lake Titicaca, Peru - JSC.
  • Lake Victoria - Clementine imagery
  • Living Lakes International - home
  • Omo River Delta - Lake Rudolf, Kenya - JSC.
  • Save the Dunes Council - Northwest Indiana / Great Lakes
  • Tahoe Center site - Lake Tahoe Center for a Sustainable Future

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  • Saline Lakes/Seas:

  • Antelope Island State Park (Great Salt Lake) - video tour
  • ARAL SEA Change Detection Study - San Diego State University
  • Aral Sea - Requiem for a dying sea.
  • Aral Sea - July 1985 - JSC.
  • Aral Sea - Sept - 1992 - JSC.
  • Aral Sea - April 1994 - JSC.
  • Atacama Desert region of Peru and Chile - image by JSC.
  • BALLERINA - environmental gateway to BALTIC REGION
  • Caspian Sea water features and issues
  • Caspian Sea and American Politics and the Caspian Sea problem (by John Hall of Nando Times).
  • Caspian Sea and the Volga River Delta - Water Features and Water Issues: Caspian Sea which is of interest to earth scientists from the Johnson Space Center/NASA.
  • Caspian Sea and the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) - article about the plight of Sturgeon and Caviar from the Caspian Sea. See also this article on the WWF in Russia (includes discussion of work to protect the Caspian Sea and its aquatic habitat).
  • Caspian Sea and an ancient Catalan Map showing suggested location of Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat.
  • Caspian Sea - UNESCO - Highlights on the 20th session of the IOC (June-July 1999)--activities in the Caspian Sea. Discusses implications of sea level rise, etc. (see Kara-Bogaz-Gol, Turkmenistan).
  • CENTER FOR INLAND WATERS - a resource for Students, Teachers, Researchers, Decisionmakers, and the General Public - San Diego State University
  • Central Andes Region - Lake Titicaca and Salars to Atacama Desert - June 1993 - JSC.
  • Dead Sea and Vicinity - travel site and photos
  • Dead Sea Rift Valley - Oct 1984 - JSC.
  • Dead Sea Products.
  • Death Valley - images from JPL/SIRC/SAR, imaging radar site
  • Denakil Desert / Afars Triangle - Eritrea - Nov 1985 - JSC.
  • East African Rift System - links
  • Ephemeral Salt Lakes, Simpson Desert Australia - JSC.
  • Etosha Pan, Namibia/Angola - June 1985 - JSC.
  • Fragile East African Lakes - PLEA article - Program for East African Lakes
  • Great Salt Lake Basin Conditions
  • Great Salt Lake - Brine Shrimp Ecology - Great Salt Lake.
  • Great Salt Lake Ecosystem - Virtual Fieldtrip (Robert Ford)
  • Great Salt Lake - EROS / Earthshots satellite view of changing lake levels.
  • Great Salt Lake - Feb 1990 - JSC.
  • Great Salt Lake Images - Division of Natural Resources - excellent!
  • Great Salt Lake Planning Project - home
  • Great Salt Lake - USGS homepage
  • Imperial Valley, California - Salton Sea - EROS/Earthshots
  • Jerusalem and the Dead Sea basin - SIRC/SAR image - JPL
  • Kara-Bogaz-Gol, Turmenistan - arm of Caspian Sea -  nearly dry - Aug 1985 - JSC.
  • Kara-Bogaz-Gol, Turmenistan - arm of Caspian Sea - nearly full - Sept 1995 - JSC.
  • Kara-Bogaz-Gol, Trkmenistan - ...... April 1994 - JSC.
  • Lake Amadeus - Refugia for Biological Diversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Australia: 12.5 Lake Amadeus and the Karinga Lake System.
  • Lake Assal / Denakil Depression - Eritrea/Ethiopia - saltiest lake in the world - Jan 1990 - JSC.
  • Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan, April 1991 - JSC
  • Lake Balkhash .... April 1994 - JSC.
  • Lake Chad - Oct 1968 - JSC
  • Lake Chad - Oct 1992 - JSC
  • Lake Chad (south basin) - Dec 1993 and North Basin (drier) Dec. 1993 - JSC.
  • Lake Coipasa and region - Bolivia/Peru - Oct. 1988 - JSC
  • Lake Eyasi, Tanzania  (soda lake) - Feb 1984 - JSC.
  • Lake Eyasi, Tanzania - Rift Valley - May 1993 - JSC.
  • Lake Eyasi, Tanzania (soda lake) and Ngorongoro Crater - East African Rift Valley - Sept 1988 - JSC.
  • Lake Eyre - Simpson Desert region of Australia - JSC (Johnson Space Center).
  • Lake Hindmarsh, Victoria, Australia - March 1994 - JSC.
  • Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgystan - brackish lake and agriculture in Tien Shan - Sept 1992 and April 1994 - JSC.
  • Lake Macleod, Western Australia - Nov. 1989 - JSC.
  • Lake Natron - Kenya - STS055-93-037 - Lake Natron
  • Lake Natron - March 1989 - JSC.
  • Lake Poopo - Bolivia (and Salars) - Oct 1985 - JSC
  • Lake Poopo - Bolivia - brackish - Jan. 1990 - JSC.
  • Lake Poopo - Bolivia - almost dried-up - Sept 1994 - JSC.
  • Lake Poopo - Bolivia - more dried-up - Oct. 1995 - JSC.
  • Lake Urmia, Iran - Oct 1984 - JSC.
  • Lop Nur (Salt Lake) - China - Takla Makan desert - Sept 1992 -JSC - lakeshore stands, mineral rings!
  • Mar Chiquita - Argentina - database site
  • Mediterranean - Dead Sea Connecting Canal Project - PALNET
  • Mono Lake, California - Oct 1985 - JSC.
  • Mono and Walker Lake - May 1991 - JSC.
  • Mono Lake - Photo gallery - Mono Lake Committee
  • Mono Lake - Gold Rush Access - photo gallery
  • Natural History of Mono Lake - Mono Lake Committee
  • Owens Lake/Valley, California - dry lake and Sierra Nevada Mts. - JSC.
  • Palnet: Palestine The Promising Land - JORDAN RIVER BASIN
  • Salars de Uyuni and Coiposa - and Lake Poopo - Bolivia
  • Salar de Uyuni and Lake Poopo - Oct 1985 - JSC.
  • Salinas Grandes (salt flats) - north of Cordoba, Argentina - JSC.
  • Salt Flats , North-Central Argentina vs rich agricultural land - JSC
  • Salton Sea to Gulf of Cortez/Baja California - June 1991 - JSC.
  • Salton Sea and NW Mexico - JSC.
  • Salton Sea / NW Mexico - Aug 1985 - JSC.
  • Salton Sea - Imperial Valley - EROS / Earthshots satellite view - USGS.
  • Salton Sea Basin - Colorado Delta mothersite - SDSU Center For Inland Waters
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  • Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford) - Great Salt Lake Ecoregion Virtual Tour
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    Water Resources/Water Quality/Issues:

     
  • Aquanet - Aquatic Network -- Information Service for the Aquatic World
  • AquaNIC - Aquaculture Network Information Center - Home Page
  • Aquatic Ecology - homepage
  • AWWA - American Water Works Association
  • Beach Water Quality - American Oceans Campaign
  • Boulder Valley Middle School - Water Resources Pages
  • Cadillac Desert - Water and the Transformation of Nature page
  • California - Water Resources site
  • CENTER FOR INLAND WATERS - a resource for Students, Teachers, Researchers, Decisionmakers, and the General Public - San Diego State University
  • East African Rift System - links
  • Environmental Organizations - Water Resources sites
  • Earth's water: surface, ground water, water on and in the Earth - USGS resource
  • FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Florida Water Environmental Student Project (Everglades)
  • Global Climate Change affecting Fluvial Systems - Rutgers University/WWF Environmental Institute - 1998
  • Global Water Partnership - home/SIDA
  • Glossary of Water Terms - USGS education site
  • Golan Heights - Israel - Water Issues
  • Human Population and Water - Peter Gleick - AAAS
  • Hydrology and Hydrologic processes & resources - USGS
  • International Association on Water Quality - home
  • Jerusalem Water Undertaking
  • National Environmental Trust - many issues covered
  • Nitrate-Nitrogen Water Quality Information
  • Palnet: Palestine The Promising Land - JORDAN RIVER BASIN
  • Preparing your property against erosion - ABAG public service material
  • Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas in Australia
  • USGS-Water Resources of Nebraska - home
  • Wasted Water, Wasted Resource - Student Paper - COLORADO BASIN
  • Water Environment Federation (WEF) - home
  • Water In Las Vegas - Student Paper
  • Water Jeopardy - resources, games USGS
  • Water Level Changes - High Plains Aquifer - prior to 1994
  • Water News - online magazine US
  • Water Quality Resources - AgNIC/Univ of Nebraska
  • Water Quality - Glossary of terms
  • Water Quality Association
  • Water-Quality Information Center
  • Water-Quality Monitoring Networks and the USGS Water page
  • Water-Related Terms & Acronyms - glossary - Univ of Arizona
  • Water-related Internet Sources - Technion Water Research Institute/Israel
  • Water Research Institute - Technion Water Research Institute/Israel
  • Water Resources / Programs - USGS National and International Programs
  • Water Resources & Issues Group - SOAS / London - African Studies
  • Watershed Science at Utah State University
  • Water Science for Schools - USGS resource site
  • WaterWiser - Links and directory of resources
  • Water World - Resources on the WWW - National Regulatory Research Institute-The Ohio State University
  • WQIC - Water Quality Information Center - USDA
  • World-Wide Water site - UC Davis
  • WWW Library - Hydrosphere
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    Last Revised: June 8, 2004