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Water Websites

Great Lakes
Beach water quality sampling and closures (Michigan)
http://www.deq.state.mi.us/beach/public/default.asp
Center for Great Lakes Environmental Education
http://www.greatlakesed.org/directory.html
Environment Canada
http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/community/classroom/intro-e.html
Environmental Assoc. for Great Lakes Education (EAGLE) http://www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~lakes/eagle.html
EPA Great Lakes National Program Office
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo
Great Lakes Environmental Atlas and Resource Book
http://www.cciw.ca/glimr/data/great-lakes-atlas/intro.html
Great Lakes Information Network Sites
http://www.great-lakes.net/
http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/pollution/water/water6.html
Great Lakes Science Center
http://www.glsc.nbs.gov
International Association for Great Lakes Research
http://www.iaglr.org
Journal of Great Lakes Research searchable archive
http://www.seagrantnews.org/
USGS Real-Time Water Data Website
http://water.usgs.gov/realtime.html
Michigan Tech Center for Water and Society (MTCWS)
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Environmental Education Site
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3308_3580---,00.html
Michigan Sea Grant
http://www.miseagrant.org/
Surf Your Watershed. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/surf/
T.E.A.C.H. Great Lakes
http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/
Images/Data
Historical and current maps of Lake Superior are under "other images"
http://chmac2.chem.mtu.edu/KITES/images.html
1993-98 comparison of Lake Superior surface temperatures
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~jrbudd/kites/lst93_98/index.html
Index of satellite images for Lake Superior and other Great Lakes
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/great_lakes/lakersi/lars/avhrr_archive/avhrr_archive.html
Terra Server Website (aerial photos for most regions of the country)
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/default.asp
General Water Websites
America’s Clean Water Foundation
http://www.acwf.org/
Center for Watershed Protection
http://www.cwp.org/index.html
EPA Waterl Education
http://www.epa.gov/waters/
GLOBE
http://archive.globe.gov/tctg/globetg.jsp (for hydrology info)
RoboCow
http://www.agr.gc.ca/pfra/flash/robocow/en/robocow_e.htm
Sea Grant sites
http://www.seagrantnews.org/
http://www.miseagrant.org/
Stormwater Information
http://www.stormwatercenter.net/
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
http://midwest.fws.gov/
http://sssp.fws.gov/index.cfm
Understanding Lake Data (a PDF guide)
http://www1.uwex.edu/ces/pubs/pdf/G3582.PDF

USGS Water Science for Schools
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/
http://answers.usgs.gov/AtoZIndex.htm
Water on the Web (University of Minnesota)
http://wow.nrri.umn.edu/wow/overview.html
Watershed Game
http://www.bellmuseum.org/mnideals/watershed/watershed2.html
Watershedss: A Decision Support System for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control http://h2osparc.wq.ncsu.edu/
Know Your Watershed. Conservation Technology Information Center
http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/
Wetlands
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands
Wetland Kids
http://www.wetland.org/kids/Kids.htm
What’s Up With Our Nation’s Waters?
http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/nationswaters/
What’s Up With Our Nation’s Waters?
http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/nationswaters/
WIN-Watershed Information Networks.
http://www.epa.gov/win/
World’s Water
http://worldwater.org/
World Water Monitoring
http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/
Year of Clean Water
http://www.yearofcleanwater.org
Michigan Water Issues
Michigan water right's issue (Mecosta County Perrier Plant http://www.wmeac.org/haps/press/current/perrier.asp
Ice Mountain Bottled Water (Nestle Water North America withdrawing groundwater from Michigan aquifers)
Michigan residents must fight siphoning of our Great Lakes
http://www.thetimesherald.com/news/stories/20040207/opinion/372197.html
Waste Runoff from Mega-Farms in lower MI
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/cafo22_20030722.htm
River Projects
BEES – Water Curriculum Enhancers. Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association. 2002.
http://www.beesinc.org/
BEES works with educators to develop innovative environmental education programs which are multidisciplinary, inquiry-based, and customized around a local issue. Materials are designed for middle school and desire to connect students to their community. BEES maintains a Water Quality Monitoring Database and has developed a Curriculum Enhancer on Water.
Give Water a Hand. University of Wisconsin Board of Regents. 1997.
http://www.uwex.edu/erc/gwah/
Do you know of a youth group or class that wants to take action to improve local water quality? With Give Water a Hand, a national watershed education program, young people team up with educators, natural resource experts and committed community members to study water issues and take action.
Nationwide Rivers Inventory. National Park Service.
http://www.ncrc.nps.gov/rtca/nri/
The Nationwide Rivers Inventory (NRI) is a listing of more than 3,400 free-flowing river segments in the United States that are believed to possess one or more "outstandingly remarkable" natural or cultural values judged to be of more than local or regional significance. The Pere Marquette River is listed.
Neuse River Educator’s Resource Website UNC Wilmington and NC State University. 2000.
http://www.uncwil.edu/neuseriver/home.htm
The Neuse River Educator’s Resource Website was designed and written to complement the information and perspectives presented in the documentary, Currents of Hope: Reclaiming the Neuse River. The site is full of dynamic learning activities geared for students in grades six through
Rivers of Life. Center For Global Environmental Education
http://www.cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/
Rivers of Life is a full model for contextual learning, a flood of projects, adventures, and resources to help K-12 teachers and students learn about and from their watershed. The watershed is the focus for an interdisciplinary project about the environment that helps students make global connections.