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Emerging Scholars Instructional Website: A Guide

This website provides weekly instructional guidance for Emerging Scholars

Books

See Poster Guidelines and tips.

Guidelines and Poster Tips

Links to Websites

Here are links to assigned websites.

Digital PCR
Healthy water
Fecal Indicator bacteria
Water Quality Monitoring
What is public health?
EPA Water Topics
Please select one water topic to learn about and be prepared to discuss its significant to human and environmental health.
Microbiological and Chemical Exposure Assessment: Water
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) - related emergencies
USGS-Water

Assignments

General Lab Techniques
Please watch the following videos before June 19th:
1. Introduction to the Centrifuge.
2. Intro to Working in the Hood.
3. Serological Pipettes and Pipettors.
4. Micropipettors.
5. Understanding Concentration and Measuring Volumes.
Water Treatment in Your Community

These articles will familiarize you with the molecular methods used in this project.

Water Quality Monitoring Video
This video provides a comprehensive explanation of water quality monitoring purposes and practices.
IDEXX Colilert - How It Works
LA Water Use Exercise
In the link on Water Use in LA, 2010, please describe a few use statistics for Orleans Parish.
Also identify which aquifer and surface waterbasic is used by Orleans Parish.

Journal and News Articles

Here you will find journal and current news articles related to the rotation.

Next-gen sequencing

Microbial Source Tracking

Microbial Source Tracking Research

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