Methods Research and Development Program
Partnerships
The Methods Research and Development Program has worked with many kinds of public- and private-sector organizations.
Here is a sampling of some of these successful collaborations:
USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA): Methods for current-use pesticides in water, sediments and air; semivolatile organic compounds in sediments; organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in sediments and biota; gasoline oxygenates in water; trace metals in water.
USGS Toxics Substances Hydrology Program: Surveying pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams, current-use pesticides in water, rain and air in Mississippi River basin.
USGS Florida Water Science Center: Fate and transport of African and Asian dust>
US Environmental Protection Agency: Chemical indicators of human fecal contaminants
US Environmental Protection Agency: Environmental fate of Roxarsone in poultry litter
US National Park Service: Contaminant effects on aquatic biota
US Fish and Wildlife Service: Potential endocrine disrupting chemicals in lakes
E.I. Dupont: Methods for herbicides and occurrence in surface and ground water
Exponent, Inc: Occurrence of terbufos and its degradates in streams and ground water
Nitrate Elimination Company, Inc: Development of nitrate reductase reagent systems as replacements for toxic cadmium for determination of nitrate in water.
