Montana State University is part of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) National Water Quality Program. The goal of this program is to protect or improve the quality of water resources throughout the United States and its territories, particularly in agriculturally managed watersheds. The CSREES program seeks to address this goal at national, regional, state, and local levels.
Featured Programs:
Well Educated Program
The Well Educated program guides private well owners through the process of testing water quality, provides materials to help interpret test results, and offers insight on ways to help protect drinking water resources. The program is offered as a service for Montana well owners to provide affordable well testing services accompanied by test result interpretation, while simultaneously providing a useful water quality data source for managers. Some new additions to the 2009 program include year round program offering, an option to test for uranium in addition to the 30 parameters available for analysis, and an educational well and septic DVD “Taking Care of yOur Ground Water” included with test results.
Extension Today radio program: Wells & Septic Systems (3:00)
Stream Side Science LRES 580-01
A three credit, online graduate course offered summer 2008 through MSU's Masters of Science in Science Education (MSSE)program. The primary goal of this course is to increase the water resource knowledge of students through hands-on, field-based curriculum. To accomplish this, students will be asked to adopt a local stream and perform lab assignments "in the field" to better understand hands-on water quality monitoring techniques. The course will improve the teaching skills of secondary science teachers utilizing distant delivery technologies. By completing this course, secondary science teachers will have a better understanding and hands-on working knowledge of the characterization and quantification of water quality as it relates to secondary school science curriculum and environmental issues on a global scale. Curriculum standards will be linked to each lesson plan so that teachers can easily incorporate the content into their core curriculum
Agronomy Notes
An information resource that addresses topics of interest to crop and livestock producers, natural resource managers and other interested individuals. Prepared by Dr. Jim Bauder, MSU Extension Soil and Water Quality Specialist.
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