The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize swim­ ming as an excellent form of physi­ cal activity, with benefits of reducing risk for chronic diseases and improving mental health. Aquatic facilities can pose a risk, however, to public health from both illness and injury. Although local and state public health codes typically regulate pools, spas, and other aquatic venues, th...

Agricultural pesticides (i.e., insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides) represent a threat to drinking water quality and aquatic life within agricultural streams. Many agricultural streams serve as source waters for urban drinking water supplies within the Midwestern United States. Transport of pesticides from upstream agricultural streams to downstream drinking water supplies can result in an...

128 Semi-aquatic wildlife species have been important sentinels of environmental health and remain important biomonitors concerning emerging contaminant issues. The semi-aquatic wildlife of the Laurentian Great Lakes (LGL) has led the way in this regard and continues to do so. This is because the LGL and associated land mass possess a set of unique characteristics that make it an ideal laborato...

background: mycotoxins are a group of structurally diverse substances produced by a wide range of moulds. these fungal secondary metabolites, whose presence in feed is unavoidable, can impose hazards to human and animal health. continuous concern about potential effects of mycotoxins in the human diet has led to an increasing interest in researches about fungi and mycotoxin production. the aim ...

insects with over 30,000 aquatic species are known as very successful arthropods in freshwater habitats. some of them are applied as biological indicators for water quality control, as well as the main food supply for fishes and amphibians. the faunistic studies are the basic step in entomological researches; the current study was carried out emphasizing on the fauna of aquatic insects in karaj...

Using the field sampling data obtained in November 2012, the aquatic ecosystem health of river network in Hangzhou Bay New District in Ningbo was assessed with Plankton Index of Biology Integrity (P-IBI). In these samples, 125 species of phytoplankton and 19 species of zooplankton were identified and the dominant phytoplankton species of each sampling sites were almost pollution indicator speci...

Aquatic debris monitoring is of great importance to human health, aquatic habitats and water transport. In this paper, we first introduce the prototype of an aquatic sensor node equipped with an embedded camera sensor. Based on this sensing platform, we propose a fast and accurate debris detection algorithm. Our method is specifically designed based on compressive sensing theory to give full co...