Instructional module
Marilynn Bartels Rick Boyer Bill Glover and Jeff Newmeister
ATEEC Fellows Institute; Muscatine IA
This instructional module was created at the 2010 ATEEC Fellows Institute with the theme of Flood Management. It focuses on the Mississippi River watershed and includes a presentation on the Dead Zone which is the hypoxic area in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The module includes the following learning activities and resources:
- Student worksheet for the online USGS National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Data graphing application
- Chemical Stream Assessment
- The Impact of Precipitation on the Total Amount of Nutrients in a Stream
- EPA On Calculating Stream Flow
- Resources: Articles Activities Films for Water Quality and Flooding
The module also includes the following video files:
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
- Hydrologist U.S. Geological Survey
- Director of LACMRERS
- Operations Project Manager U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Chloride Testing
- Nitrate Nitrite Testing
- Oxygen Testing
- pH Testing
- Phosphate Testing
- Water Clarity
Zip file
(Important Note: Zip file is 106 MB–requires high speed transmission capability and sufficient hard drive storage capacity.)