Sea Grant Ocean Sciences Education Center from the National Marine Educators Association. Distance learning, grant opportunities, educational activities, aquariums, research, and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

• Construction activities
• Industrial activities
• Municipal separate storm sewer systems
• Stormwater Month Outreach Materials and Reference Documents

Information specific to the Phase I and Phase II stormwater regulations is also available.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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’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.

• Construction activities
• Industrial activities
• Municipal separate storm sewer systems
• Stormwater Month Outreach Materials and Reference Documents

Information specific to the Phase I and Phase II stormwater regulations is also available.

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.

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."

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• Construction activities
• Industrial activities
• Municipal separate storm sewer systems
• Stormwater Month Outreach Materials and Reference Documents

Information specific to the Phase I and Phase II stormwater regulations is also available.

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  (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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

This website describes the types of Training and Certification Programs available for individuals involved in land disturbing activities, especially on construction sites.