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ALGAE

• Cyanobacteria: Life History and Ecology
• http://lurac.latrobe.edu.au/~botbml/cyanotox.html It contains information about toxic Cyanobacteria species and their toxins.
• Phycological Society of America information
• The National Eutrophication Management Program (NEMP) web page NEMP is run under the auspices of LWRRDC to investigate causes of cyanobacterial blooms in Australia.
• Qld. Department of Natural Resources site on Blue-Green Algae - It contains general information on the problems caused by BGA as well as the current BGA status of the majority of Queensland reservoirs.
• Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney algae database and pictorial key

AQUATIC PLANTS

• Aquatic Plant Database
• Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants

BIOLOGY

• Aquatic Biology Links
• The Biology Shop - Biology equipment (including Lund Cells!)
  15 Mount View Ave Hazelbrook NSW 2779   (02) 4758 6765

CONSERVATION

• Stormwater protection

DIRECTORIES

• Amazing environmental web directory (including water resources)
• Riversinfo: Australia's most comprehensive directory of Environmental Information about Water, Rivers, and their Catchments.
  info on: 
  • Australian Spatial Data Directory, 
  • the National Water Quality Management Strategy & Water Reforms
  • the Natural Heritage Trust
  • Conferences, Events & Newsletters
  • Australia Wide Catchment Management Directory
  • Comprehensive Library & Information Retrieval Facilities
  • Daily River & Storage Heights & Rainfall Across Australia
• Victorian Water Resources Data Warehouse ** now online ** The State Water Resources Data Warehouse - to substantially improve community access to information about Victoria's water resources, in particular the State's water quality and stream flow monitoring programs.  
• The Yarra Bibliography 

ECOLOGY

• "A Última Arca de Noé" (The Last Noah's Ark) Brazilian site about ecology, environment, biodiversity, environmental education, animals, birding etc. Portuguese/English.
• ONLY ONE PLANET This web site contains a section on the protection of freshwater ecosystems.
• Ecological Society of America
• Inland Rivers Network
• Center for Aquatic Ecology
• CRC for Freshwater Ecology

EPHEMERAL (temporary) WATER

• The International Society for Salt lake Research  If you have an interest in salt lakes, solar salt pans, or salinity in inland waters, may I suggest you visit the site. You may even consider joining the society (there are no fees at present).

FISH

• Australian Society for Fish Biology
• Desert Fishes Council (Australian Desert Fishes as well)
• Native Fish Australia
• New Zealand Native Freshwater Fish Society
• North American Native Fishes Association
• Tasmanian Inland Fisheries Commission

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES and RESEARCH CENTRES

• Australian Water Quality Centre
• Barwon Water
• Centre for Water Policy Research 
• Center for Aquatic Ecology
• CRC for Freshwater Ecology
• CRC for Water Quality and Treatment
• CSIRO - Land and Water
• Department of Land and Water Conservation (NSW)
  • (Search the Australia Wide Catchment Management Directory to find all catchment management organisations in Australia.)
  • Search their list of links to other water related sites
• ECOWISE Environmental (algae, chlorophyll a, macroinvertebrates)
• Environment Australia
• Environment ACT
• Environment Protection Authority (NSW)
• Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory 
• Hillsborough County Lake Atlas
• Hunter Water
• HUNTER WATER REFORMS
• Illinois Centre for Aquatic Ecology
• Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES) "What is IES?" Main Page
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Melbourne Water
• Monash University Water Studies Centre
• The National Eutrophication Management Program (NEMP) web page NEMP is run under the auspices of LWRRDC to investigate causes of cyanobacterial blooms in Australia.
• NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation
• NSW Fisheries
• NSW Parks and Wildlife
• Sydney Water
• Tasmanian Inland Fisheries Commission
• Water and Rivers Commission, Western Australia
• Water Studies Centre, Monash University
• Western Australian Water Authority
• WRC

LAKES

• Experimental Lakes Area (ELA)

LIMNOLOGY ASSOCIATIONS and NGO's

• Australian Water Association
• ASLO (American Society of Limnology and Oceanography) Home Page
• Australia Water Partnership website
• Ecological Society of America
• Federation of Australian Scientific & Technological Societies (FASTS) Homepage - new address!
• Freshwater Biological Association Homepage
• The Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF)
• Inland Rivers Network
• International Center for Scientific Research  (C.I.R.S) 
• The International Society for Salt lake Research  If you have an interest in salt lakes, solar salt pans, or salinity in inland waters, may I suggest you visit the site. You may even consider joining the society (there are no fees at present).
• IPWEA
• Murray Wetlands working group
• New York State Federation of Lake Associations (NYSFLA)
• New Zealand Limnological Association
• River Basin Management Society (RBMS)
• Save the Bay
• Stream Watch
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Upper Parramatta Catchment Management Trust
• Waterwatch Australia
• Waterwatch ACT
• Wetland Care Australia
• WETLANDS HEALTH
• World Wide Fund for Nature (Aust)

MACROINVERTEBRATES

• Ephemeroptera Galactica - FAMU's Mayfly Research Group

• Australian Entomological Supplies Pty. Ltd

  • Key to nematodes of the Murray-Darling River System and coastal freshwaters of southeastern Australia This address is for the home page from which users can download, free (thanks to ABRS) the interactive key and program to run the key. 
  • Midges and water beetles of Florida
  • Midge Research Group.
  • Simuliidae Homepage (location currently unknown)
  • Southern Hemisphere Fresh Water Isopods Suborder Phreatoicidea
  • Tricoptera in Florida (FAMU)
  • Peter Cranston's electronic guide to the Chironomidae of Australia

MISCELLANEOUS

• Canadian Journal of Fisheries Aquatic Science on-line
• Marine and Freshwater Research - Journal
• Sonotronics, tracking devices for fish, snails etc
• CRC for Freshwater Ecology guides and publications  under education -> publications

WETLANDS

• Australian Wetlands
• Society of Wetland Scientists homepage
• Murray Wetlands working group
• Wetland Care Australia
• WETLANDS HEALTH

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A list of other limnology-based email groups is now listed here. If you know of any others, please let me know.