Bottlemania: How water went on sale and why we bought it
By Elizabeth Royte
In the woods of western Maine, a water war rages between the townspeople and a multinational corporation. This case provides the backdrop of Royte's journey through the pipes and filters of tap water of almost every state in the country. From having a water tasting lunch with a bottled water connoisseur to drinking right from a bubbling spring, Royte delivers a history of people's love/hate relationship with water, bottled or not.
If you are a UW-Madison student, please request this book from MadCat. If you are a Wisconsin resident, please request it through Wisconsin's Water Library Web site book request.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
USGS publishes two new reports on Wisconsin's waters
The United States Geological Survey has issued two new reports on Wisconsin waters:
Flood of June 2008 in Southern Wisconsin
By Faith A. Fitzpatrick, Marie C. Peppler, John F. Walker, William J. Rose, Robert J. Waschbusch, and James L. Kennedy
From the Abstract:
In June 2008, heavy rain caused severe flooding across southern Wisconsin. The floods were aggravated by saturated soils that persisted from unusually wet antecedent conditions from a combination of floods in August 2007, more than 100 inches of snow in winter 2007–08, and moist conditions in spring 2008. The flooding caused immediate evacuations and road closures and prolonged, extensive damages and losses associated with agriculture, businesses, housing, public health and human needs, and infrastructure and transportation.
Record gage heights and streamflows occurred at 21 U.S. Geological Survey streamgages across southern Wisconsin from June 7 to June 21. Peak-gage-height data, peak-streamflow data, and flood probabilities are tabulated for 32 USGS streamgages in southern Wisconsin. Peak-gage-height and peak-streamflow data also are tabulated for three ungaged locations.
Environmental Settings of Selected Streams Sampled for Mercury in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Florida, 2002–06
By Amanda H. Bell and Michelle A. Lutz
From the Abstract:
From 2002 through 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program conducted studies investigating mercury biogeochemistry and food-web bioaccumulation in eight streams from three distinct geographic areas of the United States. These streams varied greatly in environmental characteristics, including land-cover, hydrologic, climatic, and chemical characteristics. They ranged from a clear-water, high-gradient, low-percentage wetland stream in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, to an urban stream near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to a low-gradient, blackwater stream draining the Okefenokee and Pinhook Swamps along the Georgia-Florida border. This report summarizes the environmental settings of these eight streams.
Flood of June 2008 in Southern Wisconsin
By Faith A. Fitzpatrick, Marie C. Peppler, John F. Walker, William J. Rose, Robert J. Waschbusch, and James L. Kennedy
From the Abstract:
In June 2008, heavy rain caused severe flooding across southern Wisconsin. The floods were aggravated by saturated soils that persisted from unusually wet antecedent conditions from a combination of floods in August 2007, more than 100 inches of snow in winter 2007–08, and moist conditions in spring 2008. The flooding caused immediate evacuations and road closures and prolonged, extensive damages and losses associated with agriculture, businesses, housing, public health and human needs, and infrastructure and transportation.
Record gage heights and streamflows occurred at 21 U.S. Geological Survey streamgages across southern Wisconsin from June 7 to June 21. Peak-gage-height data, peak-streamflow data, and flood probabilities are tabulated for 32 USGS streamgages in southern Wisconsin. Peak-gage-height and peak-streamflow data also are tabulated for three ungaged locations.
Environmental Settings of Selected Streams Sampled for Mercury in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Florida, 2002–06
By Amanda H. Bell and Michelle A. Lutz
From the Abstract:
From 2002 through 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program conducted studies investigating mercury biogeochemistry and food-web bioaccumulation in eight streams from three distinct geographic areas of the United States. These streams varied greatly in environmental characteristics, including land-cover, hydrologic, climatic, and chemical characteristics. They ranged from a clear-water, high-gradient, low-percentage wetland stream in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, to an urban stream near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to a low-gradient, blackwater stream draining the Okefenokee and Pinhook Swamps along the Georgia-Florida border. This report summarizes the environmental settings of these eight streams.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Predicting future introductions of nonindigenous species to the Great Lakes
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has released a final report, Predicting Future Introductions of Nonindigenous Species to the Great Lakes. This report predicts the spread of aquatic nonindigenous species into the Great Lakes to help resource managers focus monitoring activities on particular species at the most vulnerable U.S. Great Lakes ports. The report also demonstrates the use of a habitat suitability model and ballast water discharge data to predict invasion potential.
Wisconsin's Water Library wins Webbie Award!
From Joy Schwarz, 2008 Wisconsin Library Association, Media and Technology Section Chair:
"Congratulations! It's my pleasure to inform you that Wisconsin's Water Library at UW-Madison has won the 2008 Media and Technology Section's Webbies award in the "Most Accessible Web Site" category."
Read more....
"Congratulations! It's my pleasure to inform you that Wisconsin's Water Library at UW-Madison has won the 2008 Media and Technology Section's Webbies award in the "Most Accessible Web Site" category."
Read more....
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Book Review: The Snowflake
The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty
By Kenneth Libbrecht
Photography by Patricia Rasmussen
This brief, but detailed account of the history, life, and look of a snowflake is perfect for deflecting the winter blues. Libbrecht's text is full of knowledge and mystery, inspiring the layperson as well as the physicist. Snowflake shape, symmetry, and weather are discussed to provide a field guide for your own exploration. Rasmussen, a Wisconsin native, provides stunning photos as well as an afterword discussing her personal experience with snowflake photography.
If you are a UW-Madison student, please request this book from MadCat. If you are a Wisconsin resident, please request it through Wisconsin's Water Library Web site book request.
By Kenneth Libbrecht
Photography by Patricia Rasmussen
This brief, but detailed account of the history, life, and look of a snowflake is perfect for deflecting the winter blues. Libbrecht's text is full of knowledge and mystery, inspiring the layperson as well as the physicist. Snowflake shape, symmetry, and weather are discussed to provide a field guide for your own exploration. Rasmussen, a Wisconsin native, provides stunning photos as well as an afterword discussing her personal experience with snowflake photography.
If you are a UW-Madison student, please request this book from MadCat. If you are a Wisconsin resident, please request it through Wisconsin's Water Library Web site book request.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
From Wisconsin's Water Library: New Recent Acquisitions List
Now available from Wisconsin's Water Library. The library has new titles on climate change, wetlands, art and water and more.
Check it out!
Check it out!
Monday, January 5, 2009
Eco-Reading: CCBC's bibliography for children and teens
The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) is a library of UW-Madison's School of Education with a non-circulating collection of children and young adult literature. Their annual publication, CCBC Choices, is described as a best-of-the-year list for teachers, parents, librarians, childcare providers, students, and anyone interested in children and young adult literature. Recently, CCBC unveiled an Eco-Reading bibliography, highlighting books for children and teens that enhance appreciation for nature and the earth, increase understanding of environmental challenges, and inspire action for change.
Please take a look at the entire bibliography, as well as the list below of titles available from Wisconsin's Water Library:
Salmon Forest by David Suzuki and Sarah Ellis. Illustrated by Sheena Lott. Ages 5-9.
The Drop in My Drink by Meredith Hooper. Illustrated by Chris Coady. Ages 6-10.
The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy by Kathryn Lasky. Photographed by Christopher G. Knight. Ages 7-11.
The Living Earth by Eleanore Schmid. Ages 4-8.
Song of the Water Boatman: & Other Pond Poems by Joyce Sidman. Illustrated by Becky Prange. Ages 5-9.
An Island Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk on a Barrier Island by Virginia Wright-Frierson. Ages 7-11.
A North American Rain Forest Scrapbook by Virginia Wright-Frierson. Ages 8-14.
Common Ground: The Water, Earth and Air We Share by Molly Bang. Ages 5-8.
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field) by Loree Griffin Burns. Ages 8-12.
Flush by Carl Hiassen. Ages 11-14.
Nobody Particular by Molly Bang. Ages 8-14.
Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson by Amy Ehrlich. Illustrated by Wendell Minor.
Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf by Stephen R. Swinburne. Ages 7-14.
If you are a UW-Madison faculty, student, or staff, please request any of these titles on MadCat. If you are a Wisconsin resident, please visit our Web site.
Please take a look at the entire bibliography, as well as the list below of titles available from Wisconsin's Water Library:
Salmon Forest by David Suzuki and Sarah Ellis. Illustrated by Sheena Lott. Ages 5-9.
The Drop in My Drink by Meredith Hooper. Illustrated by Chris Coady. Ages 6-10.
The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy by Kathryn Lasky. Photographed by Christopher G. Knight. Ages 7-11.
The Living Earth by Eleanore Schmid. Ages 4-8.
Song of the Water Boatman: & Other Pond Poems by Joyce Sidman. Illustrated by Becky Prange. Ages 5-9.
An Island Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk on a Barrier Island by Virginia Wright-Frierson. Ages 7-11.
A North American Rain Forest Scrapbook by Virginia Wright-Frierson. Ages 8-14.
Common Ground: The Water, Earth and Air We Share by Molly Bang. Ages 5-8.
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field) by Loree Griffin Burns. Ages 8-12.
Flush by Carl Hiassen. Ages 11-14.
Nobody Particular by Molly Bang. Ages 8-14.
Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson by Amy Ehrlich. Illustrated by Wendell Minor.
Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf by Stephen R. Swinburne. Ages 7-14.
If you are a UW-Madison faculty, student, or staff, please request any of these titles on MadCat. If you are a Wisconsin resident, please visit our Web site.
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