The Question

Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:44:13 -0500
From: Kris Stepenuck <kris.stepenuck@ces.uwex.edu>
Subject: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought

Hi everyone-

Do you know of nitrogen-focused fact sheets that are available online? We've been approached by a volunteer monitoring coordinator looking for information about nitrogen (as related to water quality, but
also in general) and would like to add listing of these publications to a section of our website that lists volunteer-monitoring related publications (http://www.usawaterquality.org/volunteer/GuideForGrowing/Publications.html).
Any suggestions of nitrogen-related informational fact sheets would be appreciated!

Also, if anyone else has ideas for publications they'd like to have listed in clearinghouse format (like we plan to do with the nitrogen ones), please let me know what topics you're interested in having available at the website.

Cheers,
Kris Stepenuck, on behalf of the Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring
National Facilitation Project
http://www.usawaterquality.org/volunteer

Wisconsin Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program Coordinator
445 Henry Mall, Rm 202
Madison, WI 53706-1577
Phone: 608-265-3887
Fax: 608-262-2031

Responses

Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:55:42 -0700
From: "Snouwaert, Elaine (ECY)" <ESNO461@ecy.wa.gov>

The Washington Department of Ecology has this general focus sheet on
nutrients available:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/0210004.html

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:38:09 -0400
From: Tony Williams <Williams@savebuzzardsbay.org>
Subject: RE: [volmonitor] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought

Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:05:44 -0700
From: Sandy Lyon <sandy@ubwc.org>
Subject: RE: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought

Hello Kris,
I have been doing some nitrate assays in our water quality monitoring program in the Umpqua Basin in Oregon. I have been very happy with an enzymatic assay produced by the Nitrate Elimination Co., Inc. (NECi) which produces an assay with no toxic components; it can just be flushed when you are done. Their website (http://www.nitrate.com/)has information about the assay as well as a section at the bottom of their homepage called "Useful Information". This provides links that may be of interest.
Sandy Lyon
Monitoring Coordinator
Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers
1758 N.E. Airport Road
Roseburg, OR 97470
(541) 673-5756

Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:46:36 -0700
From: "Andrews, Gail" <gail.glick.andrews@oregonstate.edu>
Subject: RE: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:08:53 -0500
From: "Broz, Robert R." <BrozR@missouri.edu>
Subject: RE: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought

Kris,

Several years back we produced a series of Water Quality guides and some of the first were on nitrogen. They can be found at the University of Missouri website: http://extension.missouri.edu and go to the google search of the site. The guides are

WQ252 Nitrogen Cycle
WQ253 Nitrogen's Most Common Forms
WQ254 Nitrifcation
WQ255 Denitrification
WQ256 How Nitrogen Enters Groundwater
WQ257 Ammonia Volatilization
WQ258 Nitrate Poisoning
WQ259 Nitrogen in the Plant
WQ260 Mineralization - Immobilization
WQ261 Nitrogen Fixation

There are a couple more but these will give a pretty good overview of
nitrogen basics, and then how it enters the environment. I don't have
anything in this series that focuses on surface water.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

Bob

Bob Broz
University of Missouri
205 Agricultural Engineering
Columbia, MO 65211
(573) 882-0085
brozr@missouri.edu

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:34:28 -0400
From: Ailene <ar295@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:37:54 -0500
From: Kate Reilly <klreilly@wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought

Kris,
The Environmental Literacy Cycle has some good information on biochemical cycles http://www.enviroliteracy.org/subcategory.php/198.html, including nitrogen http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/479.html . At the end of the general info on the nitrogen cycle you'll see resources cited for a number of nitrogen-related resources/materials.

Kate

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:38:14 -0400
From: Deb Grantham <dgg3@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought

Kris,

Great information on this Cornell Web site: http://nmsp.css.cornell.edu/

Deb

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:45:15 -0500
From: Susan S Brown <ssbrown@iastate.edu>
Subject: Re: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought

Kris,

Our Heartland Regional Water Coordination Initiative has just released a publication on agricultural nitrogen management that belongs in your links:

Agricultural Nitrogen Management for Water Quality Protection in the Midwest.
Wortmann, C., alKaisi, M., Helmers, M., Sawyer, J., Devlin, D., Barden, C., Scharf, P., Fergusen, R., Kranz, W., Shapiro, C., Spalding, R., Tarkalson, D., Holtz, J., Francis, D. 2006. 
Heartland Water Quality Bulletin, University of Nebraska Press, RP189.

The pdf document with bookmarks can be obtained online at:
http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/sendIt/rp189.pdf

A pdf image of the publication only is also available at:
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/waterquality/nitrogen%20pub.pdf

I am copying this message to members of the Heartland Nutrient and Pesticide Management issue team, as they may have other recommendation for pubs from their own universities.

susanb

Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:10:43 -0400
From: Art Gold <agold@uri.edu>
Subject: RE: [CSREESVolMon] Nitrogen (and other) publications sought

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