Resource Library
Type: External Link
Aquasat: Advancing Remote Sensing of Inland Water Quality
Increasing accessibility to satellite-based water quality estimates so researchers can create better models and facilitate new data-driven approaches to monitoring and understanding critical water resources.
Type: File
Assessing temporal dynamics on pelagic Sargassum influx and its relationship with water quality parameters in the Mexican Caribbean
This study uses satellite data and in situ measurements to show how seasonal Sargassum influx in the southern Mexican Caribbean increases coastal turbidity and degrades water quality to inform strategies to better manage and mitigate these recurring events.
Catagory: PDF, Scientific Article
Type: Video
Beach Water Quality Monitoring
The Coastal Resources Division administers beach water quality monitoring, public notification and data reporting to the Environmental Protection Agency and other water quality agencies.
Catagory: Youtube
Type: File
Blue Carbon: The Role of Healthy Oceans in Binding Carbon
The report highlights the critical role of the oceans and ocean ecosystems
Catagory: PDF
Type: External Link
Cartagena Convention
The Caribbean Environment Programme and Cartagena Convention Secretariat webpage
Catagory: Website
Type: External Link
Copernicus Marine Service
Copernicus Marine Service provides free and open marine data and services to enable marine policy implementation, support Blue growth and scientific innovation
Catagory: Website
Type: Video
How we measure water quality
Across the state, Environment Protection Authority Victoria’s (EPA) authorised officers and environmental scientists collect water samples to detect pollution and monitor the health of Victoria’s waterways.
Catagory: Teaching Material, Youtube
Type: File
Land Use and Land Cover Shape River Water Quality at a Continental Caribbean Land-Ocean Interface
This study shows that river water quality feeding a seasonally hypoxic tropical bay in Panama varies sharply with catchment land use and land cover, with pristine peat swamps producing naturally low-oxygen blackwater and more urbanized or deforested catchments showing elevated nutrients, highlighting how even moderate land-use changes can alter coastal ecosystem inputs.
Catagory: Further Reading, PDF, Scientific Article
Type: File
Multivariate Statistical Analysis for Water Quality Assessment: A Review of Research Published between 2001 and 2020
This review analyzes two decades of water-quality research using multivariate statistical analysis, showing rapid growth—especially in developing countries—and identifying PCA, HCA, FA, and DA as the most widely applied techniques across studies of rivers, groundwater, and lakes.
Catagory: PDF, Scientific Article
Type: External Link
National Centers for Environmental Information
NCEI provides access to an extensive archive of environmental data through several platforms. We deliver the climate, coastal, oceanographic, and geophysical data you need in a variety of formats.
Catagory: Website
Type: Image
Pollution in the Murchison Bay, Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest freshwater lake, is undergoing severe ecological decline driven by pollution and eutrophication that threaten its unique biodiversity and the well-being of surrounding communities, even though improved operation of existing treatment facilities could significantly reduce organic pollution on the Kenyan side.
Catagory: Photo
Type: File
Protocol Handbook for Monitoring Marine Water Quality in the Mesoamerican Reef System
A practical handbook providing standardized protocols for monitoring marine water quality across the Mesoamerican Reef to support effective conservation and management.
Type: File
Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for River Water Quality Forecasting: A Review
A review of emerging methods showing how real-time monitoring, remote sensing, and advanced machine learning models are transforming the accuracy and efficiency of inland river water-quality forecasting and management, especially LSTMs, GRUs, and hybrid approaches.
Catagory: PDF, Scientific Article
Type: External Link
Regional Environmental Monitoring Platform
A map view showing geospatial context to provide an easy and shareable snapshot of environmental/spatial data for reporting or display.
Catagory: Geospatial Information System, Map
Type: File
River Streamflow, Remotely Sensed Water Quality, and Benthic Composition of Previously Undescribed Nearshore Coral Reefs in Northern Puerto Rico
This study portrayed how riverine sediment and nutrient inputs shape water quality and benthic communities on two little-known coral reefs in north-central Puerto Rico, identifying Tómbolo Reef as a potential refuge for threatened reef-building corals while nearby Machuca Reef shows degraded, macroalgae-dominated conditions.
Catagory: PDF, Scientific Article
Type: File
Statistical Methods in Water Resources
This text began as a collection of class notes for a course on applied statistical methods for hydrologists taught at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Training Center. Course material was formalized and organized into a textbook, first published in 1992 by Elsevier as part of their Studies in Environmental Science series. In 2002, the work was made available online as a USGS report.