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Educational Resources |
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Bridge |
Sea Grant
Ocean Sciences Education Center from the National Marine Educators
Association. Distance learning, grant opportunities, educational
activities, aquariums, research, and more. |
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EPA Nonpoint Source
Kids Page |
Links to resources, worksheets,
puzzles, games and other activities for K - middle grade students
regarding water, water quality and nonpoint source pollution. |
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EPA Surf Your
Watershed |
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Surf Your Watershed is a service
to help you locate, use, and share environmental information about your
state and watershed; includes maps of counties within states, ‘Adopt
Your Watershed’ program, and links to environmental sites. |
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Give Water
A Hand |
This
national watershed education program is designed to involve young people
in local environmental service projects. Following
steps
in the Give Water A Hand Action Guide (download
it for FREE!),
your youth
group or class plans and completes a community service project to
protect and improve water resources.
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Global Rivers
Environmental Education Network |
This website
is designed to provide water monitors and students with a place to store
their water monitoring data, track their water monitoring projects and
to provide the educational needed to successfully implement a
school-based water monitoring program. |
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Izaak Walton
League ‘Save Our Streams’ Project |
For more
than 30 years, this national watershed education and outreach program
has developed innovative educational programs for groups and
individuals. SOS has educated and motivated citizens to clean-up stream
corridors, monitor stream health, restore degraded stream banks and
protect dwindling wetland acreage. These stewardship activities have
been implemented nationally through the League's more than 300 local
chapters. |
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National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NOAA's many
educational activities are distributed across the agency. This site has
been designed to help students, teachers, librarians and the general
public access the many educational activities, publications, and
booklets that have been produced.
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National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nonpoint Source Pollution Discovery Kits |
NOAA's
Discovery Kit has three sections about nonpoint source pollution.
The Kit includes a tutorial, a roadmap to online resources, and formal
lesson plans for educators, which integrate information presented in the
tutorial with online offerings from the Roadmap, and have been developed
for students in grades 9-12. The lessons focus on how scientists
identify and measure nonpoint pollutants and determine their effects on
living organisms using bioassays and chemical analyses.
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Project WET |
Project
WET
stands for
Water
Education for Teachers. The project is an international,
interdisciplinary, water science and educational program for formal and
non-formal educators of K-12 students. |
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“Thirstin” |
This new EPA site contains games, activities and narrated/animated
classroom experiments for grades K-12. Some of the new activities
include an animated water cycle, word scramble, water trivia and
“Thirstin’s Wacky Water Adventure.” |
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Water on the
Web |
This site helps college and high school students understand and solve
real-world environmental problems using advanced technology. |
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“Waters to the Sea” |
CD ROM (purchased resource), product of Hamline University’s Center for
Global Environmental Education, explores the upper Mississippi River
watershed and
reveals how humans have changed the rivers of this watershed. |
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World Water Monitoring Day |
On October
18, citizens of the global community will join in World Water Monitoring
Day (WWMD), a worldwide opportunity to positively impact the health of
rivers, lakes, estuaries and other waterbodies. |
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World Wildlife Fund’s “Southeast Rivers and
Streams” |
The rivers
and streams of the American Southeast are unusually rich in aquatic
biodiversity. This site provides information about species, threats,
issues in this vital region. |
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Citizen Resources |
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Center for Watershed
Protection |
The Center for Watershed Protection
is a non-profit organization in Ellicott City, Maryland dedicated to
protecting and restoring watersheds across the country. |
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EPA News Notes |
EPA’s News Notes is a periodic
report on the condition of the water-related environment, the control of
nonpoint sources of water pollution, and the ecological management and
restoration of watersheds. Prior reports can be searched using
key words for specific topics of interest. |
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EPA Stormwater Site |
This site contains technical and
regulatory information about the NPDES stormwater program. It is
organized according to the three types of regulated stormwater
discharges and provides a link to Stormwater Month outreach materials:
Information specific to the
Phase I and Phase II stormwater
regulations is also available. |
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|
|
EPA Surf Your
Watershed |
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Surf Your Watershed is a service
to help you locate, use, and share environmental information about your
state and watershed; includes maps of counties within states, ‘Adopt
Your Watershed’ program, and links to environmental sites. |
| |
|
|
Ground Water
Institute |
The Ground Water Institute (GWI) is
an organization of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students and
non-academicians dedicated to becoming a locus of expertise in ground
water management in Memphis at The University of Memphis. Its
mission is to "conduct research, perform service, and develop education
programs to ensure that the water consumed by the general public in 2050
is as plentiful and high quality as it is today." |
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|
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National Low Impact
Development (LID) Clearinghouse |
This website
has been developed through a Cooperative Assistance Agreement under the
US EPA Office of Water 104b(3) Program in order to provide a web-based
clearinghouse that allows researchers, practitioners, and program
managers to collaborate and efficiently disseminate and share
information with local governments, states, builders, developers,
stakeholders, and environmental groups. The administrative and technical
information available through this clearinghouse will be useful to
permit writers, local government officials, and watershed managers. |
| |
|
|
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NOAA's many
educational activities are distributed across the agency. This site has
been designed to help students, teachers, librarians and the general
public access the many educational activities, publications, and
booklets that have been produced. |
| |
|
|
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nonpoint Source Pollution Discovery Kits |
NOAA's
Discovery Kit has three sections about nonpoint source pollution.
The Kit includes a tutorial, a roadmap to online resources, and formal
lesson plans for educators, which integrate information presented in the
tutorial with online offerings from the Roadmap, and have been developed
for students in grades 9-12. The lessons focus on how scientists
identify and measure nonpoint pollutants and determine their effects on
living organisms using bioassays and chemical analyses.
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|
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NEMO Nonpoint
Education for Municipal Officials |
NEMO is a
University of Connecticut education program for land use decision makers
that addresses the relationship of land use to natural resource
protection. |
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|
Southeast Watershed
Assistance Network (SWAN) |
The Southeast Watershed Assistance
Network (SWAN), part of the Southeast Watershed Forum, is being
developed to provide continued technical assistance and support to
watershed trainers, state watershed coordinators and other watershed
leaders in the region. River and watershed associations use this
network when shopping for information, contacts, funding opportunities
and resource material to facilitate their efforts to protect and restore
Southeast watersheds. |
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|
Southeast Watershed
Forum |
The Southeast Watershed Forum is a
nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing local watershed
initiatives through education, training and regional dialogue. The
Forum strives to be a regional clearinghouse for successful case studies
in watershed protection, restoration and management. |
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Tennessee Department of Agriculture
- Nonpoint Source Program |
TDA-NPS manages the federal
Nonpoint Source Program, funded by the EPA through Section 319 of the
Clean Water Act.
This program, created in 1987, funds states, territories and Indian
tribes in installing Best Management Practices (BMPs) to stop nps
pollution; providing training, education, and demonstrations; and
monitoring water quality. The TDA-NPS is non-regulatory, promoting
voluntary, incentive-based solutions. It funds three types of
programs---BMP implementation projects, monitoring projects, and
educational projects---and WaterWorks! is funded in part by this
program!
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Tennessee Department of Environment
and Conservation - Used Oil Program |
The Tennessee Used Oil Program in
the Division of Solid Waste Management, Solid Waste Assistance Program
funds activities promoting the proper recycling of used oil. |
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Tennessee Department of Environment
and Conservation - Water Pollution Division |
The TDEC Water Pollution Control
Division implements the EPA Phase I and Phase II regulations to address
storm water runoff in Tennessee. |
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|
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Native Plant
Selector |
A website
featuring more than 140 plants native to the Tennessee Valley.
Information includes photographs and details about height, light
preference, bloom time, and more. |
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University of
Tennessee Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) |
The Water Resources Research Center
(WRRC) is a federally-designated state research institute supported in
part by the U.S. Geological Survey. The Center serves as a primary
link among water-resource experts in academia, government and the
private sector. WRRC facilitates research at universities and
colleges throughout the region; promotes education and training relevant
to water-resources issues; and serves as an information clearinghouse
for federal, state and local government agencies that oversee
water-related problems. |
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Weather Information |
Find the
Weather for any city, state or ZIP code, or airport code or country. |
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Watershed Groups Resources
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Center for Watershed
Protection |
The Center for Watershed Protection
is a non-profit organization in Ellicott City, Maryland dedicated to
protecting and restoring watersheds across the country. |
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|
EPA Catalog of
Federal Funding Sources
|
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection---The
Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection Web site is
a searchable database of financial assistance sources (grants, loans,
cost-sharing) available to fund a variety of watershed protection
projects. |
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|
|
EPA News Notes |
EPA’s News Notes is a periodic
report on the condition of the water-related environment, the control of
nonpoint sources of water pollution, and the ecological management and
restoration of watersheds. Prior reports can be searched using
key words for specific topics of interest. |
| |
|
|
EPA Stormwater Site |
This site contains technical and
regulatory information about the NPDES stormwater program. It is
organized according to the three types of regulated stormwater
discharges and provides a link to Stormwater Month outreach materials:
Information specific to the
Phase I and Phase II stormwater
regulations is also available. |
| |
|
|
EPA Surf Your
Watershed |
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Surf Your Watershed is a service
to help you locate, use, and share environmental information about your
state and watershed; includes maps of counties within states, ‘Adopt
Your Watershed’ program, and links to environmental sites. |
| |
|
|
Ground Water
Institute |
The Ground Water Institute (GWI) is
an organization of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students and
non-academicians dedicated to becoming a locus of expertise in ground
water management in Memphis at The University of Memphis. Its
mission is to "conduct research, perform service, and develop education
programs to ensure that the water consumed by the general public in 2050
is as plentiful and high quality as it is today." |
| |
|
|
National Low Impact
Development (LID) Clearinghouse |
This website
has been developed through a Cooperative Assistance Agreement under the
US EPA Office of Water 104b(3) Program in order to provide a web-based
clearinghouse that allows researchers, practitioners, and program
managers to collaborate and efficiently disseminate and share
information with local governments, states, builders, developers,
stakeholders, and environmental groups. The administrative and technical
information available through this clearinghouse will be useful to
permit writers, local government officials, and watershed managers. |
| |
|
|
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nonpoint Source Pollution Discovery Kits |
NOAA's
Discovery Kit has three sections about nonpoint source pollution.
The Kit includes a tutorial, a roadmap to online resources, and formal
lesson plans for educators, which integrate information presented in the
tutorial with online offerings from the Roadmap, and have been developed
for students in grades 9-12. The lessons focus on how scientists
identify and measure nonpoint pollutants and determine their effects on
living organisms using bioassays and chemical analyses.
|
| |
|
|
NEMO Nonpoint
Education for Municipal Officials |
NEMO is a
University of Connecticut education program for land use decision makers
that addresses the relationship of land use to natural resource
protection. |
| |
|
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River
Network |
The goal of RiverNetwork is to
support grassroots river and watershed conservation groups. This
website is designed to link activists with river information, resources
and services. |
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RiverSmart |
RiverSmart is a public education
campaign produced by River Network and Swiss Re. |
| |
|
|
Southeast Watershed
Assistance Network (SWAN) |
The Southeast Watershed Assistance
Network (SWAN), part of the Southeast Watershed Forum, is being
developed to provide continued technical assistance and support to
watershed trainers, state watershed coordinators and other watershed
leaders in the region. River and watershed associations use this
network when shopping for information, contacts, funding opportunities
and resource material to facilitate their efforts to protect and restore
Southeast watersheds. |
| |
|
|
Southeast Watershed
Forum |
The Southeast Watershed Forum is a
nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing local watershed
initiatives through education, training and regional dialogue. The
Forum strives to be a regional clearinghouse for successful case studies
in watershed protection, restoration and management. |
| |
|
|
Tennessee Department of Agriculture
- Nonpoint Source Program |
TDA-NPS manages the federal Nonpoint
Source Program, funded by the EPA through Section 319 of the
Clean Water Act.
This program, created in 1987, funds states, territories and Indian
tribes in installing Best Management Practices (BMPs) to stop nps
pollution; providing training, education, and demonstrations; and
monitoring water quality. The TDA-NPS is non-regulatory, promoting
voluntary, incentive-based solutions. It funds three types of
programs---BMP implementation projects, monitoring projects, and
educational projects---and WaterWorks! is funded in part by this
program! |
| |
|
|
Tennessee Department of Environment
and Conservation - Used Oil Program |
TDEC's Division of Community
Assistance Used Oil program promotes the proper methods to recycle used
oil. |
| |
|
|
Tennessee Department of Environment
and Conservation - Water Pollution Division |
The TDEC Water Pollution Control
Division implements the EPA Phase I and Phase II regulations to address
storm water runoff in Tennessee. |
| |
|
|
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Native Plant
Selector |
A website
featuring more than 140 plants native to the Tennessee Valley.
Information includes photographs and details about height, light
preference, bloom time, and more. |
| |
|
|
University of
Tennessee Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) |
The Water Resources Research Center
(WRRC) is a federally-designated state research institute supported in
part by the U.S. Geological Survey. The Center serves as a primary
link among water-resource experts in academia, government and the
private sector. WRRC facilitates research at universities and
colleges throughout the region; promotes education and training relevant
to water-resources issues; and serves as an information clearinghouse
for federal, state and local government agencies that oversee
water-related problems. |
| |
|
|
Weather Information |
Find the
Weather for any city, state or ZIP code, or airport code or country. |
| |
|
|
Municipal Stormwater
Program Resources |
| |
|
|
Center for Watershed
Protection |
The Center for Watershed Protection
is a non-profit organization in Ellicott City, Maryland dedicated to
protecting and restoring watersheds across the country. |
| |
|
|
EPA Catalog of
Federal Funding Sources
|
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection---The
Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection Web site is
a searchable database of financial assistance sources (grants, loans,
cost-sharing) available to fund a variety of watershed protection
projects. |
| |
|
|
EPA National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System |
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) Urbanized Area Map Results for
Tennessee---this site provides information on urbanized and
non-urbanized areas that meet NPDES Phase II population and density
qualifications. |
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|
|
EPA News Notes |
EPA’s News Notes is a periodic
report on the condition of the water-related environment, the control of
nonpoint sources of water pollution, and the ecological management and
restoration of watersheds. Prior reports can be searched using
key words for specific topics of interest. |
| |
|
|
EPA Stormwater Phase
II Menu of Best Management Practices |
Environmental Protection Agency's Stormwater Phase II Menu of Best
Management Practices (BMPs). The menu is intended to provide guidance to
regulated small MS4s as to the types of practices they could use to
develop and implement their stormwater management programs. |
| |
|
|
EPA Stormwater Site |
This site contains technical and
regulatory information about the NPDES stormwater program. It is
organized according to the three types of regulated stormwater
discharges and provides a link to Stormwater Month outreach materials:
Information specific to the
Phase I and Phase II stormwater
regulations is also available. |
| |
|
|
EPA Surf Your
Watershed |
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Surf Your Watershed is a service
to help you locate, use, and share environmental information about your
state and watershed; includes maps of counties within states, ‘Adopt
Your Watershed’ program, and links to environmental sites. |
| |
|
|
Erosion Control |
Erosion
Control
(Forester Communications) is the journal for Erosion and Sediment
Control Professionals. Information is included on preventing accelerated
soil erosion and minimizing sedimentation. Published 7 times each year,
EC is the official journal of the International Erosion Control
Association and reaches over 23,000 readers each issue. Read current
(or past) issues on the website. |
| |
|
|
Ground Water
Institute |
The Ground Water Institute (GWI) is
an organization of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students and
non-academicians dedicated to becoming a locus of expertise in ground
water management in Memphis at The University of Memphis. Its
mission is to "conduct research, perform service, and develop education
programs to ensure that the water consumed by the general public in 2050
is as plentiful and high quality as it is today." |
| |
|
|
Low Impact
Development Center |
The Low Impact Development Center is a non-profit organization dedicated
to the advancement of Low Impact Development technology. Low Impact
Development is a new, comprehensive land planning and engineering design
approach with a goal of maintaining and enhancing the pre-development
hydrologic regime of urban and developing watersheds. |
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|
|
Municipal Technical
Advisory Service (MTAS) |
The MTAS
NPDES Phase II Stormwater Management BMP Toolkit is designed to provide
permittees information on Best Management Practices for each of the six
minimum controls required in the Phase II Permit. |
| |
|
|
National Low Impact
Development (LID) Clearinghouse |
This website
has been developed through a Cooperative Assistance Agreement under the
US EPA Office of Water 104b(3) Program in order to provide a web-based
clearinghouse that allows researchers, practitioners, and program
managers to collaborate and efficiently disseminate and share
information with local governments, states, builders, developers,
stakeholders, and environmental groups. The administrative and technical
information available through this clearinghouse will be useful to
permit writers, local government officials, and watershed managers. |
| |
|
|
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NOAA's many
educational activities are distributed across the agency. This site has
been designed to help students, teachers, librarians and the general
public access the many educational activities, publications, and
booklets that have been produced. |
| |
|
|
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nonpoint Source Pollution Discovery Kits |
NOAA's
Discovery Kit has three sections about nonpoint source pollution.
The Kit includes a tutorial, a roadmap to online resources, and formal
lesson plans for educators, which integrate information presented in the
tutorial with online offerings from the Roadmap, and have been developed
for students in grades 9-12. The lessons focus on how scientists
identify and measure nonpoint pollutants and determine their effects on
living organisms using bioassays and chemical analyses.
|
| |
| |
|
|
NEMO Nonpoint
Education for Municipal Officials |
NEMO is a
University of Connecticut education program for land use decision makers
that addresses the relationship of land use to natural resource
protection. |
| |
|
|
RiverSmart |
RiverSmart is a public education
campaign produced by River Network and Swiss Re. |
| |
|
|
Southeast Watershed
Forum |
The Southeast Watershed Forum is a
nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing local watershed
initiatives through education, training and regional dialogue. The
Forum strives to be a regional clearinghouse for successful case studies
in watershed protection, restoration and management. |
| |
|
|
Stormwater |
Stormwater,
(Forester Communications) is the journal for Surface Water Quality
Professionals. This publication includes information on NPDES Phase II
compliance, TMDLs, and other issues related to surface water quality.
Published 7 times each year, Stormwater reaches more than 21,000
subscribers. Current issue and past issues on website. |
| |
|
|
Stormwater Manager's
Resourse Center (SMRC) |
The
Stormwater Manager's Resource Center (SMRC) is designed specifically for
stormwater practitioners, local government officials and others that
need technical assistance on stormwater management issues. Created and
maintained by the
Center for Watershed Protection,
the SMRC has everything you need to know about stormwater in a single
site. |
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|
|
Tennessee Association of
Broadcasters |
The TAB is committed to the purpose
of promoting broadcasting in the best interest of the public and the
broadcasting industry. |
| |
|
|
Tennessee Department of Agriculture
- Nonpoint Source Program |
TDA-NPS manages the federal Nonpoint
Source Program, funded by the EPA through Section 319 of the
Clean Water Act.
This program, created in 1987, funds states, territories and Indian
tribes in installing Best Management Practices (BMPs) to stop nps
pollution; providing training, education, and demonstrations; and
monitoring water quality. The TDA-NPS is non-regulatory, promoting
voluntary, incentive-based solutions. It funds three types of
programs---BMP implementation projects, monitoring projects, and
educational projects---and WaterWorks! is funded in part by this
program! |
| |
|
|
Tennessee Department of Environment
and Conservation - Used Oil Program |
TDEC's Division of Community
Assistance Used Oil program promotes the proper methods to recycle used
oil. |
| |
|
|
Tennessee Department of Environment
and Conservation - Water Pollution Division |
The TDEC Water Pollution Control
Division implements the EPA Phase I and Phase II regulations to address
storm water runoff in Tennessee. |
| |
|
|
Tennessee Erosion
Prevention and Sediment Control |
This website describes the types of Training and Certification Programs
available for
individuals involved in land disturbing activities, especially on
construction sites. |
| |
|
|
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Native Plant
Selector |
A website
featuring more than 140 plants native to the Tennessee Valley.
Information includes photographs and details about height, light
preference, bloom time, and more. |
| |
|
|
University of
Tennessee Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) |
The Water Resources Research Center
(WRRC) is a federally-designated state research institute supported in
part by the U.S. Geological Survey. The Center serves as a primary
link among water-resource experts in academia, government and the
private sector. WRRC facilitates research at universities and
colleges throughout the region; promotes education and training relevant
to water-resources issues; and serves as an information clearinghouse
for federal, state and local government agencies that oversee
water-related problems. |
| |
|
|
Weather Information |
Find the
Weather for any city, state or ZIP code, or airport code or country. |
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|
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