Getting To CPCB

Mailing Address Central Plains Center for BioAssessment Kansas Biological Survey 2101 Constant Ave. Lawrence, KS 66047 Phone: 785-864-1548 Fax: 785-864-1534 Director Dr. Donald Huggins 785-864-1548 dhuggins@ku.edu Assistant Director and Informatics Specialist Debbie Baker 785-864-1551 dbaker@ku.edu Macroinvertebrate Lab Christopher Rogers 785-864-1714 dcrogers@ku.edu Phycology Lab LeeAnn Bennett cell : 785-550-5572 work: 785-864-1552 lbennett@ku.edu CPCB stream sites - click on the layers tab. AWARDS 2012 National Water Quality Monitoring Council Vision Award 2010 KU Research Award - Don Huggins 2009 May KU Unclassified Employee of the Month - Debbie Baker

Welcome to the Central Plains Center for BioAssessment. Our mission is to provide scientific expertise on aquatic resources of the Central Plains Region of the US.

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2012 National Lakes Survey begins in May.

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CPCB receives the 2012 “Vision Award” from the National Water Quality Monitoring Council at the 8th biennial conference in Portland, OR.

The Council presents this award to recognize an individual or group for the outstanding work they do to promote water quality monitoring on a local or regional level to enhance the management and protection of aquatic resources. The Council was created in 1997 as a vehicle for bringing together diverse expertise needed to develop collaborative, comparable, and cost-effective approaches for monitoring and assessing our Nation’s water quality.

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Don Huggins contributed to Special Publication 31 Assessing the Health of Streams in Agricultural Landscapes: The Impacts of Land Management Change on Water Quality (pdf) of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST, visit website to purchase printed copy).

Don presented this information to congressional staff and the EPA in Washington DC. See the KU News Release.

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Development of Benchmark Lake Nutrient Criteria for USEPA Region 7

USEPA RTAG7. 2011. Nutrient Reference Condition Identification and Ambient Water Quality Benchmark Development Process, Freshwater Lakes and Reservoirs within USEPA Region 7. US Environmental Protection Agency Regional Technical Advisory Group, Region 7, Kansas City, KS. 42 pp. (pdf)

See Workgroup Webpage for more information.

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We are a NABS taxonomic certification center. See the NABS website for details.

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• Services brochure (pdf)
• Benthic laboratory manual (pdf)
• We're NABS certified for General Arthropods and Oligochaeta.

 

environmental DNA (eDNA) - Need to track aquatic species with minimal field effort? We have the equipment and facilities to test water samples for eDNA of aquatic nuisance and endangered and threatened species (among others). Contact Debbie Baker for more information.

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